Christian Artist Gable Price Wants to ‘Create This Honest Reflection of Life and Faith’
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Singer-songwriter Gabel Price doesn’t just write music to make people feel good, but he creates music from a place he has walked through.
On “The Prodigal Stories Podcast” Price stated, “I don’t think there’s much bravery in writing when you’re past the thing. I think everything is a past-tense pain: ‘I used to be this,’ ‘I felt this at one point, but I’m great now,’ ‘God came along, and now I’m great.’”
He added, “Where’s the song for the person who’s in it? And where’s the song for the person who doesn’t particularly need a resolve right now? … There’s no joy for me in writing a song that doesn’t feel like it’s exactly where I’m at.”
Price grew up in a Christian household and as his childhood continued, he just thought he would become a worship leader. However, he said it took some time for him to find his niche and sound within the music industry. Ultimately for Price, it came down to combing both his faith and his life within his music.
“I think Gable Price and Friends started when I started to combine [those themes],” he stated. “So, I think finding a way to combine my process with the faith ties to my music was a longer process of figuring out how it worked. … It was just a matter of finding a way to create this honest reflection of life and faith, and they don’t have to be these two separate projects.”
On Price’s most recent album, his song “Jesus Christ” is one that caused Price to be vulnerable.
He described the song as, “an honest letter to God of, ‘Hey, I think you should know this, like I told you I’d never leave, but, while I was leaving, I tripped, I sprained my ankle, I’m at the bottom of your apartment complex, and I need help.’”
He continued, “[The song is] more of a human approach to the faith struggles of this journey I think we’re all on of maintaining this intimacy with God and nurturing the relationship, because, just like any relationship, it needs to be nurtured. I think that song is a series of confessions to God and then this acceptance of, ‘I really need to hold onto something.’ No matter how fast this thing grows, how much I feel like I’ve got life figured out, I need something to hold onto that’s eternal.”
The biggest contributor to Price’s writing style is his honesty.
“I pride myself on writing exactly where I’m at with each song,” he expressed. “A lot of ‘Fractioned Heart,’ that first album, was a reassurance. I’m writing these songs to reassure myself of what I believe and I’m beginning to believe them again as I write the album.”
Price concluded, “I’ve always said we’re Christians in a band who sing about what we care about. A lot of times, faith comes out of that, a lot of times belief, a lot of times my relationship with God, but, a lot of times, it’s just love — it’s writing a song to my brother, telling him to just hold on [because] life is hard. That’s kind of been the natural progression for me. I don’t feel like there’s been a shift mentally.”
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