The Wood Drake Sessions creates sacred songs of gospel hope to inspire the church in enjoying God. Founded by Kirk Sauers & Paul Ranheim, friends from earlier days in Nashville, TN, bringing their many years of songwriting and church leadership, they create songs of profound hope.
Paul is a minister and songwriter in Colorado, with a particular heart for resourcing the church’s worship and cultivating her leaders. Kirk is a worship leader in Georgia, with a passion to shepherd the diverse and beautiful body of Christ through music.
On today’s episode, Paul and Kirk talk us through their beginnings as songwriters. They also share their experience of working with some amazing writers and vocalists like Sandra McCracken, Leslie Jordan, Liz Vice, and Wendell Kimbrough.
At the end of the episode, they perform a couple of their songs “Grace Will Prevail” and “Oh How Good To Be Together.”
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET ON TODAY’S EPISODE
- 03:55 Paul and Kirk take us through their songwriting journey
- 17:36 The experience of working with different co-writers and vocalists
- 24:25 Paul and Kirk share their primary musical influences
- 28:47 The origins of The Wood Drake Sessions
- 34:11 The one thing they wish the world knew about them that they probably don’t
- 45:12 An acoustic version of Grace Will Prevail and Oh How Good To Be Together
WE HOPE THIS SONGWRITING TIP HELPS YOU
Kirk says [when you have a song that you’ve recorded], “You don’t want it to sit on your iPhone. You really want to give it an opportunity to have the life it could have as a song.”
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