Trietsch is excited to welcome Big Daddy Weave in concert of Saturday March 20. Tickets are available at itickets.com. Tickets are $20 until March 19. Tickets will be $25 at the door. There is a 20% discount on 10 or more tickets. Tickets are still available and there is a special promo right now to get tickets for $15. Put TMUMC in the promo field when you purchase tickets online for the discount.
For more information about Big Daddy Weave, visit their website at www.bigdaddyweave.com.
Big Daddy Weave entered the studio for the fifth time in their decade long career with a singular mission – to create a collection of songs that might somehow communicate the word placed on their hearts to the hearts of those who hear it. It might have been easier to simply try to recreate the success of their previous hit songs, such as “Every Time I Breathe” or “Audience of One.” Instead, the band set out to craft the most ambitious and varied album of their career by doing what they’ve been doing all along – refusing to compromise while stretching the artistic boundaries of what a Big Daddy Weave record is supposed to sound like.
When asked to describe their fifth album, What Life Would Be Like, guitarist/singer/songwriter Mike Weaver characterized it as being “all about expectations.”
“We all grew up in church,” Mike explains. “That is awesome, and I’m thankful for it, but there is also some baggage that comes with that. We grew up hearing people talk about grace, but there seemed to be an unspoken law that said, ‘but you also have to do this, this, this, this, and this.’ Nobody ever said it out loud, but I saw how people who didn’t do ‘this, this, this, this, and this’ were treated. Now truly, you will know a tree by its fruit, but that’s not grace. With What Life Would Be Like we are ripping up our old expectations to get to a place where we can receive the heart of God.”
While Every Time I Breathe encouraged people to view every moment as a chance to live in response to the greatness of God, What Life Would Be Like celebrates that response.
While subtle lyrical details paint vivid mental pictures in the minds of the listener, ultimately it is the characters that are the souls of these songs. There is the parent who has gone on before encouraging their child in the poignant, “From Here.” There is the repentant husband who has just finished fighting with his wife in the confessional, “Right With You.” There is the man with the calloused heart, passing by the least of these with less than a twinge of conscience in the aforementioned “Another Day In Paradise.”
With What Life Would Be Like Big Daddy Weave has taken a giant step forward both creatively and conceptually. While it hasn’t been an easy road to get to this point, the guys insist this next chapter in the band’s evolution has drawn them closer than ever.
