SONS THE BAND
After meeting at a Maverick City writing camp in 2020, Steve Davis and Jordan Colle combined their desires to make music that would honor God and created SONS THE BAND. Their debut album captures that desire to create music that has its own identity. They share: “We wanted to push the limits and create something that was truly different but is still simple enough to worship to in any season.”
First off, as SONS THE BAND is newer to our platform, tell us the origins of your duo and how you all joined the Tribl family.
We met at a Maverick City writing camp in March of 2020, the week before the pandemic shut everything down. We wrote a song together while we were at camp, and sort of just became buds over the summer through zoom writes and facetime hangs.
We both were dreaming about doing our own worship projects later that year, but after working so much together we decided to put those individual projects on hold and do one together.
SONS and Tribl sort of start in the same place, through Maverick City camps. We met a lot of the Tribl team along the way, and when we released our first independent live project, they reached out to see if they could help on any future stuff. Obviously we were pretty stoked about that, and the partnership was born.
How does it feel to have your debut album out in the world? Tell us the meaning behind the title of this record: Live from 1971.
It kind of feels like when the cooking instructions say “cook to golden brown” and you actually do that and it turns out great.
In all seriousness, we’ve been blown away by how much the Lord has used this project and how quickly He’s done it.
We’ve been leading worship and writing songs for most of our lives, and to see how these songs are moving the Church is humbling.
We called it Live from 1971, firstly because the studio we tracked the record in is called “1971” but more importantly, that space has become pretty nostalgic and almost “sacred” for the Maverick City and Tribl family.
It was such a cool opportunity to get to worship in that space with these songs and we wanted to pay tribute to that in some way.
The album opens with you all’s lead single: “Only Ever Good.” The song is a joyful declaration of God’s goodness – a goodness that’s unaffected by the seasons we face here on Earth. Were you facing something personally writing this where you really needed this reminder?
Each of us has faced some pretty difficult seasons in the last few years, and for sure while writing this song we were thinking about those, we are in some ways, still living in those seasons.
For Steve, there was a season of deep depression and a lot of loneliness, and “Only Ever Good” was a great reminder that sometimes you have to write the song even when you don’t fully feel everything you’re writing about.
It's when holding on to truth really becomes real.
The penultimate track “Rest and Rise” definitely feels like a standout. Tell us more about this song!
It was the last song we wrote before we recorded Live From 1971, and we actually wrote it in the same room! Which, for us living in two different states, is a rarity. We really liked the idea of the Heavens singing over us, and our praises singing back to Heaven as a sort of never ending cycle.
From morning to night, from night into morning.
We loved the energy we found in it, and we thought the record needed one more song like that.
What are your greatest hopes for these songs as the Church begins leading them?
The heart of SONS has always been to write songs for the church, and that no matter what tempo or energy the song has, that there is always a rich truth to them. We hope that those truths find a way into people’s lives by worshiping along with the songs, but we also really just hope that even the unchurched or de-churched would just enjoy the music we write. That maybe it would remind them of something greater and someone more loving and accepting than anything or anybody they’ve ever known.
Tribl + SONS THE BAND | Live from 1971
Lead songs from Live from 1971 with your congregation. Resources available at MultiTracks.com.