By Mallory Mattingly
While on an episode of “The Matthew West Podcast,” actor Dennis Quaid revealed that he felt “called” to write and record his gospel album, Fallen: A Gospel Record for Sinners.
West asked Quaid if he wants to make another faith-focused album or if he’s content with just one record.
“I think it’s too soon to know,” Quaid responded. “I really kind of feel like with this record I was called to do, it in a sense, because I’d written ‘On My Way to Heaven’ and then I wrote ‘Fallen’ about six years ago with that kind of Tennessee Ernie Ford-idea.”
The actor revealed that the thought behind the album was “the whole idea of the prodigal son, which I relate to so much.”
“It’s kind of where I start on my spiritual journey,” he previously told Forbes of title track “Fallen.” “It’s the prodigal son story which is kind of what being a Baptist is all about. The stray lamb that gets caught up with the devil, his own ego, and he’s sort of left out there without hope, and fallen. But he comes back, and the father welcomes him home.”
The whole album came to fruition when Gaither, a music firm, approached him about creating a record.
“I had previously made one other record with my rock ‘n’ roll band, the Sharks (‘Out of the Box’), and it came out and laid there,” Quaid told Variety. “This one was really focused.”
He wrote and created Fallen with producers David “Fergie” Ferguson and Gospel music sensation Ben Isaacs.
“With two different producers,” Quaid explained, “it reflects me in the sound. Half Baptist churcher, half country rock. Ben is part of the Isaacs, which is a Christian group. He knows bluegrass and he knows the Gaither Christian audience. These traditional Christian songs, which were part of my Baptist upbringing in Texas, are very important to me. I knew how I wanted it to sound.”
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Dennis Quaid had no idea how the album would turn out, but he felt Isaacs and Ferguson “took me someplace I’ve never been. We went way beyond my expectations.”
The REAGAN actor also moved to Nashville, which he said made writing the album all the more easier.
“Maybe it’s because I’m older,” Quaid said, “but there doesn’t seem to be the sense of community in Hollywood that I felt in the ‘70s, even into the ‘80s. It’s always been about people in their cars, but today it’s even more so. People stay in their trailers, they’re on their phones. There’s not the same kind of communication there once was. L.A. has been very good to me, and I have great friends. But it is hard to make friends. There is a lot of self-involvement. In Nashville, you know your neighbors.”
“People come to Hollywood to reinvent themselves. Playing a role. People come to Nashville to create music where you have to be yourself,” he added. “So, you become more of yourself. And that’s reflected in life here. Everybody wants to write and create and there’s a really nice atmosphere.“
Dennis Quaid’s “Fallen: A Gospel Album for Sinners” was written from a place of victory. Quaid felt called to record the album and give people a prodigal son feel. The album can be streamed on all platforms.
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