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CCM Magazine <\/em>sat down with Signature Sound\u2019s Doug Anderson last month, and their interview with him has been linked to in the most recent digital issue<\/a>. Here\u2019s the Youtube, and I\u2019ve also transcribed it for readers stranded with a soundless computer at the moment:
\n<\/iframe> \n****************** \nCCM<\/em>: Hi, I\u2019m Caroline Lusk, editor of CCM Magazine, and you\u2019re watching CCM Magazine.com. Thanks for tuning in. We are chatting here with Doug, and he\u2019s gonna tell us a little bit more about his brand-new solo project. \nDoug: It\u2019s called Dreamin\u2019 Wide Awake<\/em>, so excited, basically the whole project is about the journey of my life. Ups and downs, successes and failures. We took about 150 songs and narrowed them down to of course 10 on the project. We got a couple extra writers to come in and do it\u2026 But Wayne Haun and Joel Lindsey, which are two of my best friends in the world\u2026 \nCCM<\/em>: Amazing writers. \nDoug: Wrote the title cut \u201cDreamin Wide Awake,\u201d which is basically a story about my town and how God\u2019s blessed me where I am and put me in the spot where we are, in our little \u201cunfancy\u201d hometown. That\u2019s what we love\u2026 Talks about the ice cream store that we go to and of riding our bikes and things like that, and people have identified with that themselves, whether they live in a small town or not. \nCCM<\/em>: Sure. \nDoug: And then I guess one of my favorite songs on there is a song called \u201cI\u2019ll Take What\u2019s Left,\u201d which\u2026I mean, like everybody else, we\u2019ve all been through our struggles. And God seems to take whatever we have left to give him, and he makes it brand new. So the CD takes you on a journey, and it\u2019s got great response. And I\u2019ve always been a quartet guy, a team guy, I\u2019ve always played sports. So I\u2019m used to having people around me. \nCCM<\/em>: What\u2019s it like being in the solo spotlight? \nDoug: It is different<\/em>, but I\u2019m enjoying it. To find out that people would actually want to just hear me as a soloist\u2026humbles me, you know, from the beginning. So I\u2019m enjoying it, it\u2019s a different thing for me, course I\u2019m still traveling with the group. But the group takes about 15 weeks off, and in that time my solo schedule is booking up crazy, but we\u2019re gonna try to do about 20 to 30 dates in that time period, and in that time my family can go with me, which is what I\u2019m all about anyway, is family. I\u2019ve got two little girls at home. \nCCM<\/em>: What are their names? \nDoug: Isabelle, Isabelle\u2019s 10, and Emma is 7. \nCCM<\/em>: Oh gol, that\u2019s a handful. \nDoug: They\u2019re busy, and they\u2019re into the whole sports thing. And my wife\u2019s a teacher. And she\u2019s the volleyball coach at the highschool where we went\u2026 we were highschool sweethearts. So she\u2019s a volleyball coach\u2026 And we\u2019re, we spend time, we\u2019re such a family that\u2019s all we do, is we\u2019re together. So that\u2019s kind of my life, and the CD portrays that and shows that. \nCCM<\/em>: Well you and your wife were highschool sweethearts, and you\u2019re very tied in, obviously, to the community and the town that you were raised in, and now you guys are giving back. You started a foundation, tell us a little more about that. \nDoug: Yeah, we created a foundation called MAD34 foundation. MAD stands for Michelle (which is my wife\u2019s name), Michelle, Anderson, Doug, which is MAD, and 34 was our highschool numbers, which I know is corny, but it worked. MAD34 foundation. And basically, everything that comes from this CD and my solo work, we will give a percentage back to our local schools to fund the education and music departments, because we were so blessed and they\u2019ve given so much over the years, whether it\u2019s supporting me or supporting my kids and my wife. We wanted to be able to give back so that our kids could have the same results and the same experiences that we had. So we wanted something to give back and we found an avenue to do it. \nCCM<\/em>: Well obviously a lot of your music has been within the southern gospel world. But you\u2019re a lot more diverse than that, which we definitely hear coming through onto this [CD], and which has been recognized with your GMA Dove Awards nod this year for Male Vocalist of Year. \nDoug: Well it\u2019s a huge honor to be nominated, even nominated with those group of guys. Just to be mentioned in the same breath with Brandon Heath and Jason Crabb, I\u2019m thrilled for that. Of course your family\u2019s always like, \u201cDo you think you\u2019re gonna win, do you think you\u2019re gonna win?\u201d and my answer to that is \u201cWe already won.\u201d Just to be mentioned with those. \nThe diversity of the project comes from a lot of different backgrounds. I mean, my roots are in southern gospel, but at the same time I was a huge<\/em> 4Him fan, and a Steven Curtis fan, Michael W. Smith\u2026 Growing up, I listened to all different styles of music, which helped me be the artist that I am today, because you take all those different styles, and you put \u2019em all into one thing. I\u2019m always going back and listening to old CCM projects and pulling things out\u2014a lick here and a lick there, to something that they would have done. dcTalk, I mean who didn\u2019t like dcTalk? MercyMe, Casting Crowns, you know, all those groups influenced me over the years. And you just go back and take things, and you\u2019ll hear a little bit of all that in there. Even though my roots are in southern gospel, I still grew up listening to all that stuff. \n****************** \nIt\u2019s interesting to hear Doug talk about his CCM influences here (which makes sense, since it is CCM Magazine <\/em>doing the interview). It seems to tie back to what many of us have observed, namely that we see a lot more SG singers acknowledging and borrowing from CCM than CCM singers from SG. Moreover, it often seems to be an older manifestation of CCM that\u2019s being cited as an influence. Little surprise there. \nIt\u2019s nice to see a southern gospel singer get a little bit of exposure\/attention in the wider world of Christian music. One could wish for more with a singer of Doug\u2019s caliber (quite frankly I can probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of currently active CCM singers who are as good or better), but this is something at any rate.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CCM Magazine sat down with Signature Sound\u2019s Doug Anderson last month, and their interview with him has been linked to in the most recent digital issue. 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