Paul Moak and Third Day
We are proud to get the word out that BT Alumni and long-time contributor to the worship scene at the BreakThru Student Retreat, Paul Moak, recently produced Third Day’s latest album MOVE. We’ve copied a portion of the article on Third Day’s official website below.
For Third Day, this latest musical adventure began while they were on the Winter Jam Tour in early 2010. “If we weren’t on stage, we were working on songs,” says Anderson, describing how the band would set up equipment in venues and begin fleshing out the songs that would become Move.
“We had a conversation on the bus about what kind of record we wanted to make and what kind of producer we wanted to work with,” says Lee. “We wanted somebody who was very organic. So, we had a conversation with a guy at our record company and talked to some of our management folks and they sent us some stuff to listen to and out of that, Paul Moak, just really — to all of us — stood head and shoulders above the rest. He had done an album that came out last year [Matt Maher’s Alive Again] working in the slide guitar, hand clapping and foot stomping; it was just the kind of rootsy feel that really captured what we were hoping to do.”
Anderson says Moak (Mat Kearney, Matt Maher) was a good fit for Third Day. “I was really impressed that he let us be the band,” Anderson says. “He let us arrange the songs, let us lay it down…He let us be Third Day. We’re good at doing the drums, guitar, bass guitar and vocals and we’re good at having ideas for the other stuff, but by the time we’ve done the drums, bass guitar, vocals, we also like to get on back to the house, so Paul I think has been really strong at being a
great finisher.”
