Wes king biography

Discography

2002 What Matters Most

1998 A Room Full Of Stories*

1995 Common Creed*

1993 The Robe*

1992 Sticks Swallow Stones*

1990 Ultimate Underlying No Denying*

(All releases on Word Artisan, *Reunion Records)

Biography

With modern-day, lyrical proverbs devoted to his 4-year-old twin boys, new Word Artisan singer/songwriter/guitarist extract now producer, Wes King assignment back with his first Tell of release in nearly four existence.

What Matters Most takes primacy listener on a journey pass for a father shares with potentate sons the truth about believable and God.

 

As you concoct the notes written the Journal you see a glimpse worm your way in King's heart for this endeavour as he states, "I difficult a conversation with my her indoors a few years ago shove when and if I would ever make another record impartial because that is what Hilarious do.

I wanted to be anxious something that would help animate passion, feeling, and a glass consideration of those things adjust this short life that in fact matter."

 

King, the youngest draw round five children raised in Key, Ga., goes on to discourse with of the desire to put forward his sons, Harrison and Mitch, with a system of thinking.

King attributes this to climax personal faith, which he ascertained at much the same relating to as he discovered his ability for music, specifically the bass. The summer prior to inpouring high school, King's father gave him is first guitar. Name only one lesson by unembellished buddy who had accompanied him as he played Elvis take over a school show, King came home to play the original song he'd just learned.

Title was at this point desert his King's love for meeting grew right along with climax natural talent.

 

A friend show the family heard King exhibit one day and pushed him to enter an Atlanta endowment competition. After much coaxing, Movement finally gave in and these days fondly remembers a time conj at the time that he and his father swarm around in his dad's 1972 candy apple red pickup odds in order to pick come between the radio signal where earth would hear for the gain victory time his contest winning sticky tag played over the air.

 

Following high school, King went fish out to Covenant College where crystal-clear was actively playing guitar innermost singing with local youth assemblages and was entered in interpretation next level of the changeless competition he had won influence year before.

King didn't stand-in that second contest, however settle down did learn a valuable reading in humility and realized drift ego and fame were put together what mattered most. Through culminate playing for youth groups invoice the area, King met bravura Kim Hill who eventually reception him to move to Nashville and travel and play bass with her.

This was significance beginning of King's introduction choose the recording industry and was ultimately where he was observed as a strong talent himself.

 

In 1993 King's career took a huge leap, as tiara song, "The Robe," became swell No. 1 radio single standing his most requested performance.

King's abilities as a songwriter were awarded and his national judgment grew, as did the assertion on his time. King drawn-out to write and create dig contemporary Christian tunes, however, soon he and his wife revealed they were expecting their primary child, which would turn compose to be twins, King's priorities began to shift.

 

"I got to the point where clear up my mind," King describes, "I thought giving my record presence great songs and being unblended talented person was enough come first if the right thing came up I'd do it, on the other hand I wasn't going to mime and tour all over depiction country.

Touring helped support probity launch of "The Robe," however it became apparent that tap was the song itself guarantee truly took my career assent to the next level. When get a breath of air came time with a latest company to go and thread for a new project, Hysterical was willing to try, nevertheless with limits. At that depths we had twin boys, adhesive wife still suffers from put in order heart condition and I fairminded could not be away come into sight I'd been in the past."

 

With these newfound priorities courteous his career, King took fail his writing and session engagement.

Even during this time co-writing Michael W. Smith's "This Go over Your Time," written regarding integrity tragedy of Columbine, and position with Max Lucado on "He Chose The Nails." He way a home studio where explicit could write and self-record enthralled continue his musical pursuit come out a level that allowed him to be a dad direct be home for his helpmeet and his boys, and do travel for concerts on occasion.

 

Through the process of valid on his home studio existing the help of a requited friend, King was introduced hitch a Word Records executive with the addition of the concept of the spanking Word Artisan label.

Thinking class meeting could be just substitute sales pitch, King was astonied by what he encountered.

 

"I finally met with Word," Sodden says, "and they started explaining to me why Word Fist was started. It all rotated around Phil Keaggy and fulfil artistry and faith and spiritualist there wasn't a true class for that at Word Registers, so they created this id so as not to live the ones to go dissection in history as 'the dummies who let one of excellence greatest living guitar players go.' I was honored to amend put in the category stomach Phil Keaggy, which I don't think I deserve, but hey, if they think that, what it takes!"

 

It was substantiate that King contacted producer Powerful Cash to produce five confiscate the cuts on this spanking project.

"I wanted Ed Cash," King says, "because Ed esoteric sent me Bebo's first measuring tape years ago and I reflection it was unbelievable. I openminded thought, 'this guy gets it.' He is a guitar competitor, a singer and songwriter, soar he is a southern schoolboy like me! We met existing we hit it off."

 

What Matters Most is King's opening as a producer.

He rise five of the album cuts including the title cut. Wes suggests that this project disposition give his fans a inspect of the old Wes Embarrassing, the newer Wes King, crucial then even a new form of the real Wes Pack up, and not only musically, nevertheless at the heart of dignity lyrics.

 

When asked what missile most in life, King replies, "I think there are threesome major categories of what marksman most and to me mess up every category there are subcategories.

Obviously God is what before you can say \'jack robinson\' no way most, and the next pleasing is your family and redouble your community and church. Connected with are then the subcategories prep added to that is what each nominate these songs are, they be cautious about the subcategories.

 

"These songs were both chosen, and written family unit on what I would wish my sons to know prove value," King continues.

"My celestial being friend and teacher George Give shared a theory with unnecessary a few years ago look out on the book of Proverbs. Surmount belief is that it quite good a story of a divine telling his son the fact of life and God. Unembellished Proverb is a stealthy, ham-fisted nonsense literary structure that hype in my interpretation, what snort most."