In honor of Mother’s Day, Hillary Scott welcomes her mother, Linda Davis, to Country Faith Radio. Linda shares her experiences as a working mother and grandmother, and recalls how her Christian upbringing was formative during her early years as a singer. Tune in and listen to the episode in-full this Sunday (May 8) at 8am PT / 10am CT / 11am ET or anytime on-demand at apple.co/_CountryFaith

Linda Davis Shares Her Experience Being Hillary Scott’s Mother and Grandmother To Her Children
I’m a working mother still, a working grandmother still, I’m a working wife. I’m doing the same thing I’ve always done, thankfully, what a blessing.

Linda Davis On The Value of Her Christian Upbringing
I want to be sure my story includes my Christian raising, because that’s everything. I’m so thankful. Not that I stayed on the straight and narrow the whole time. But I’m not pretending – don’t want y’all to think that – it was always there.

Linda Davis Shares When She Discovered Her Passion For Music
I discovered my singing voice when I was just a little girl. After seeing Loretta Lynn on the Grand Ole Opry on my TV set, watching HeeHaw, seeing Barbara Mandrell and so many, Tammy Wynette… And I loved the guys too: Ronnie Milsap, Willie Nelson, George Jones, Merle… All of that spoke and sung to me.

Linda Davis Opens Up About Meeting Hillary Scott’s Father For The First Time
My goodness, I was 19 and he was 20, and he was just a handsome man – he still is. Back then it was like, “Oh goodness I just saw a beautiful man.” And when he opened his mouth to sing, you know, you just see talented people and you’re just attracted to them. I guess he must’ve felt the same.

Hillary Scott Shares What She Would Tell Her Younger Self
I’d say “Hold on.” The tired you feel, and the miles on your car are worth it because it’s really you’re having so much fun. And you get to a point to where you miss what it felt like, for it to feel new.

Maverick City Music’s Chandler Moore joins Country Faith Radio with Hillary Scott. Fresh off his Grammy win and performance, Moore recounts his upbringing as a pastor’s son and how the heartbreak of losing his possessions in a house fire became the catalyst for creative and spiritual revelations. Hillary also shares a mini-playlist of some of her favorite Christian songs perfect for Easter. Tune in and listen to the episode in-full this Sunday (April 17) at 8am PT / 10am CT / 11am ET or anytime on-demand at apple.co/_CountryFaith.

Chandler Moore on Music Finding Its Way to Him
I think music found its way to me and [I] really couldn’t escape it. I mean I played basketball. I thought I was going to go to college and play basketball and do all that stuff. I didn’t really start chasing music till end of middle school, eighth, ninth grade. It was all about sports before that. I would play in church, sing, but I wasn’t really passionate about it. And ninth grade hit and I would spend hours in my garage that I made like a janky studio, home studio, writing songs, producing tracks, bringing some of my friends over to sing songs, I could barely sing at the time. [It’s] been a really cool journey and something that I ran into but the Lord has obviously ordained and planned for.

Chandler Moore on Writing Authentic Songs at Maverick City Music Writing Camps
At the end of the day, a lot of times we get together and write and we end up just talking for an hour and a half and there’s no songs that come out of it. But for us, that is more beautiful than trying to conjure up a song. But a lot of the songs come out of pure relationships. Come out of sitting at a table, eating together, learning about each other, learning about our backgrounds, learning about families and environments and cultures that we come from. And I feel like that’s why the songs that people love feel so authentic, because we’re not just writing with people for business sake, or for career moves, or just to put money in our pockets. These are songs that come out of real relationship and places of real conversation and questions to each other.

Chandler Moore on Losing Everything in an Apartment Fire 4 Days Before Recording “Jireh”
Four days before I recorded “Jireh,” my apartment caught on fire. I lost everything. It was the hand of God, because I was supposed to be in my apartment. But me and my wife, we decided to leave a day early to try to catch a church service in Dallas, Texas, where I live now, and I was living in Georgia at the time. And four days before we recorded “Jireh,” before we recorded “Shall Not Want,” “Wait On You,” all those songs that are talking about not wanting for anything and the Lord being enough and waiting on the Lord to come through and be waiting for His perfect timing… I lost everything. I mean, I showed up to Elevation to record “Jireh” with no clothing, the suitcase that I had, and no identification. Everything. It was crazy.  So “Firm Foundation” is a real life, “Jireh” is a real life, testimony.  “Wait On You,” “Shall Not Want,” all those songs that we do are just, it’s just real life testimonies out here in these streets.