“I thought, ‘Is this the Christian writer of the year award? Is that a thing?’ They had to explain to me that it was the songwriter of all genres… Being in the Christian music industry, I don’t know that I ever expected to get an an honor that big, because we’re a small genre within the bigger industry.”Rise Up (Lazarus) - Letras de Cain. Can't you hear the voice of Jesus calling us.“It’s still kind of mind-blowing, honestly,” Hulse tells Billboard. Come on and rise up, take a breath, you're alive now. He's giving us new resurrected hearts. He's calling us to walk out of the dark. He's giving us new resurrected hearts.

He gave me that folk-inspired influence. “I didn’t have like the classic rock dad — I had the bluegrass dad. 22 on TBN and on SiriusXM.California native Hulse picked up a guitar for the first time when he was seven years old and was leading church worship services by the time he was in junior high school.“Nobody in my family plays professionally, but my dad plays bluegrass music,” he says. 19) at Lipscomb University’s Allen Arena in Nashville, Tenn., and will air Oct. 1 hits so far this year: CAIN’s “Rise Up (Lazarus),” Andrew Ripp’s “Jericho” and Jeremy Camp’s “Out of My Hands.” He is also nominated for songwriter of the year (non-artist) at this year’s GMA Dove Awards, which will be held tonight (Tuesday, Oct. 1 hits, starting with Zach Williams’ “Old Church Choir,” and has earned three Christian Airplay No.

“‘Old Church Choir’ was his second single and it just soared.” The song stayed atop Billboard’s Christian Airplay chart for 20 weeks and earned a GMA Dove Award for best pop/contemporary recorded song of the year.In perhaps a nod to his bluegrass roots, Hulse says he hopes to expand his songwriting to transcend genres: “I like being a little bit of a musical chameleon, kind of jumping into different spaces and stuff. We got connected pretty quickly, thankfully enough.”The couple settled in Franklin, Tenn., and Hulse soon began making connections within the songwriting community and booking co-writing sessions, leading to his signing with Essential Music Publishing and soon after, writing “Old Church Choir” with Williams and Colby Wedgeworth.“Zach’s career was just starting to rise, so we had that song after ‘Chain Breaker’ had gone No. “We moved out here with no jobs or anything. If we hate it in a year, we can move back.’” Hulse says. In songwriting, I try to write music where people feel like they’ve always known that song.”After spending eight years as a worship leader at Mariner’s Church in Irvine, Calif., Hulse and his wife took a chance and moved to Nashville in 2015.“We were in our twenties, we didn’t have kids, and we thought, ‘Let’s try Nashville. The best things are the most simple and bluegrass kind of draws on tradition.

We had spent all morning chasing a different idea and it wasn’t quite working. I just want to keep growing as a writer.Below, Hulse offers some of the stories behind his hit songs.Nick Schwarz and I had been writing together a bit and he’s a producer on their project. I hope that’s the next part of the journey, and I know that I will always be connected to Christian music, and worship music in particular, because it’s a part of me.

Their tour cancels, and we’ve got a song at radio. They were one of those bands that had that story, right? Everything was perfectly teed up — and a pandemic hits. When it came out, we were kind of worried. I think right off the bat, the idea of a resurrection song that had more to do with ‘Wake up from your sleep and start living the life you were meant to live’ was an inspiring idea.There was a lot of things stacked up against that song.

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