The Band CAIN Talks Touring with Growing Family and Chris Tomlin
By Movieguide® Contributor
Siblings Taylor, Logan and Madison, who make up the band CAIN, recently shared their experience performing with veteran singer Chris Tomlin as well as balancing family life and touring.
“Chris Tomlin is one of the people that is the reason that I’m making Jesus music at all,” Logan told Editor-In-Chief of Worship Leader Magazine Joshua Swanson. “If I were a crew person on this tour, I would have been elated.”
“It’s so bizarre to actually kind of get to know somebody, and you get a little more comfortable seeing them, but whenever they sing, you’re like, ‘I’m 10,’” added Madison.
The “How Great Is Our God” singer is not the only one the Alabama trio is traveling with. All three decided to bring their young children along on tour as well. Taylor, mom to daughter Stevie, said that balancing work and family is tricky but that she would not feel “complete” without having her and the nephew and nieces in tow.
“It’s crazy to even think of a time when it was just the three of us, like, what did we do all day,” Taylor joked.
Logan, who shares daughters River and Rosalie with wife Emily, agreed with Taylor’s sentiments, saying, “My world is at peace when they’re here. So then when I go out on stage, I’m not anywhere in my mind worried if I’m walking away from my first calling to be the spiritual head of my household to be out here ministering to strangers.”
Taylor said the decision to bring the family along was a step of faith because of the extra financial cost of bringing the family along on tour.
“[S]ometimes on paper, it doesn’t add up financially…to bring your family out because we now will need a second bus,” Taylor admitted. “We’ll need more to fit everybody, but I just feel like God’s called us to do this a certain way.”
“That has been the conversation like how do we do this in the right way to where we’re being good stewards and smart with all this, but I don’t want to look back and feel like I missed the most important parts,” said Madison, who shares son Calloway with husband Jared.
The Cain family said that as the band is “leveling up,” as Swanson called it, and as they get to perform in arenas, they don’t want to lose sight of the ministry side of their career.
“There’s a woman that we’ve been praying for who has a terminal illness, and she came tonight, and Ron [CAIN’s manager] got to bring her backstage, and we pray together,” Madison said. “…Moments like that keep it to where it’s like church, because you still have to be touching and loving on people. If you stop doing that, you completely lose grasp of what you’re doing.”
The trio shared that even as they perform at larger venues, they still appreciate the more intimate spaces where it is easier to connect with the audience.
Logan recalled a particular show post-COVID where they were limited to an audience of 75 people.
“That’s, to this day, one of my favorite things we’ve ever done, and it was like really telling for me that I’m thankful for how many thousands [of] people were here and always will be, but I’ll still be thankful for 75 if the heart of the room is beating for the same cause,” Logan said.
The Cains offered a glimpse of tour life with a post captioned “It takes a village” showing the Cain children being pushed in strollers across the street, with “the village” following one by one.
“With some time at home – I’m reminded how thankful I am for the people that make it possible for us to live this life. Raising a family on wheels takes a village – so meet the village,” CAIN posted.
The Cain sisters chatted with Sadie Robertson about their country music origins and how they got into Christian music instead as Movieguide® reported:
During a difficult season in the country music scene, the trio felt they should give up. But God intervened and gave them a new direction.
“We started leading worship,” Madison began. “It was just so much fun and so much joy, and it took all the pressure of trying to be somebody, and we were just worshiping.”
“We met our now manager in the crowd,” she continued. “He was just like, ‘Help me understand something. I see you on Sunday, and you’re so full of joy, and you’re so free, and then I hear your music, and it’s so hard and sad and heavy…Have you considered doing Christian music?’ So we prayed about it and I mean, probably one of the first times in my life, I heard the Holy Spirit say, like, ‘This is what you’re supposed to do.’”
Along with touring with Chris Tomlin on the “Holy Forever” tour, the band will be joining Crowder and We the Kingdom this fall for the Air1 Worship Now tour.
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