Brent Cobb Tells Apple Music About New Country Gospel Album

Cogito February 15, 2022 0

Brent Cobb joins Country Faith Radio with Hillary Scott to chat about his new country gospel album ‘And Now, Let’s Turn to Page…’ He discusses the life-changing moment he realized he needed to create this album, writing with his wife for the project, and more. Plus, Hillary curates a mini-playlist of songs that she finds gratitude in. Listen to the episode in-full anytime on-demand at apple.co/_CountryFaith

All quotes and images courtesy of Country Faith Radio with Hillary Scott on Apple Music Country.

Brent Cobb on the Life-Changing Experience That Made Him Record a Gospel Album
I’ve always wanted to record a gospel album, because historically in country music history, as a country singer, that’s what you do. There wouldn’t be no country music if there was no such thing as gospel music first. And that’s where it all comes from. So I always knew that someday I would do that. In July of 2020, my son and I got in a pretty serious car accident. We got T-boned, it could have been a lot worse. My son was totally fine and he was one at the time. I only broke my collarbone. It could have been much worse. You start seeing like, everything that leads up to a moment like that. Like that morning, I had to turn around and go get something that I had forgotten from the house. And then I took a different route to go through this rural four way stop that I’ve been going through my whole life. And it all happened, I just thought, well, maybe I should go ahead and make this gospel album. Because may not get the chance, you know?

Brent Cobb on Writing “When It’s My Time” with His Wife
So [my wife and I] moved back to Georgia in 2018. I stopped touring for a while when my daughter was born. And then when I really started getting busy again, we decided to move back to Georgia so she could have some help while I was on the road. And that’s where all of our family lives. When that happened, as you know, the whole game in Nashville for writing is co-writing, that’s what you do. And I really enjoy the camaraderie of it all and the experience. And since we’re down there, I can’t just go write with whoever, we write together. She’s way more intelligent than I am, she’s actually a pharmacist. And she has great taste in music and just really good instincts and writing. And so in the evenings, when we get the kids down and we got that three hour window to hang out, a lot of the time, we’ll go out on the back porch and we’ll write songs together. We wrote a couple together on my last album and then [“When It’s My Time”]. Usually albums that I do are all written by me, except for one, it might be one that I do written by someone else, but this album [‘And Now, Let’s Turn to Page…’] is the opposite. It’s all traditional gospel except for [“When It’s My Time.”] And we sat out there on the back porch and went to town on it.