Big Daddy Weave

By Melissa Riddle for GospelMusicChannel.com 

For almost 10 years now, Big Daddy Weave has made a name for itself as a consistently good worship band. Great guys with great big hearts who make the music they make for all the right reasons. But sometimes the reasons become even more specific when your world gets bigger.

Inspired by a recent trip to Ecuador, the band’s fifth release, What Life Would Be Like explores the possibility of how the world could be if we become the hands and feet of Christ. "God used that trip to re-ignite the fire in us as a group," says frontman Mike Weaver. "We haven’t been the same since we got back. There is a passion that hasn’t been there before, and we know we will never see the potential unleashed as long as we hang on to our old ideas of what life and ministry and being the church is, rather than letting God just come and 'be' in us. I think the Lord really broke our hearts over who He loves, and that's everybody."

Stylistically, What Life Would Be Like isn’t a huge diversion from what BDW is known for. That pop/country flair, ala Rascal Flatts on “You Found Me,” winds its way into more of a jazzy take on “Right With You” and “Falling Into You.” “From Here,” a beautiful song about a loved one who has passed on, is more than worth a listen. Produced by BDW’s own Jeremy Redman, the CD isn’t a vast departure from 2007’s Every Time I Breathe, but the renewed passion is evident throughout, especially in the very fine cover of Phil Collins’ classic, “Another Day In Paradise” and in the title track.

Even more importantly, for every CD purchased, a World Vision grant will donate $14 to supply food, clean water, clothes and medical supplies to poor villages around the world. Reason enough to give What Life Would Be Like your time and attention.

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