Nation music followers first met FOR KING + COUNTRY once they dueted with Dolly Parton on their chart-topping “God Solely Is aware of.” They carried out the tune on the CMA Awards after which wowed audiences once more on CMA Nation Christmas with their percussion-driven, high-energy model of “Little Drummer Boy.”
Now the Grammy-winning crossover brother duo is dipping its toes again within the style with Girl A’s Hillary Scott. Scott joined FOR KING + COUNTRY on a brand new recording of their already chart-topping hit “For God Is With Us.” Out now, the newest model showcases Scott’s distinct, highly effective vocals within the verses and refrain in such a considerate, deliberate method that her inclusion elevates the No. 1 hit to a chilling new degree.
“We’ve dubbed this FOR KING + LADY,” quips FOR KING + COUNTRY’s Joel Smallbone from a tour cease in Fargo, North Dakota. “She’s nice in Girl A, however I believe due to the dynamic and the best way they method her vocal, there was one thing in regards to the grit and the depth, and perhaps it was, perhaps it was the gospel part to it that she was simply so excited. I’m so pleased with her, and I’m so pleased with it. I say this politely to our personal model, however it’s the superior model to me. It takes the tune to a different place it wasn’t at earlier than.”
“For God Is With Us” is from the duo’s new album “WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?” which debuted within the High 10 on the all-genre Billboard 200.
Smallbone and Scott attend church collectively, so working collectively was comfy and natural.
“I’m actually humbled that FOR KING + COUNTRY requested so as to add my vocal on such a strong tune,” Scott mentioned in a press release. “Personally, it was a deal with for me to collaborate with them, and now I’m excited to share it.”
The concept got here collectively whereas conferences had been nonetheless confined to Zoom in the course of the pandemic. Smallbone despatched the tune to Scott and her staff, hoping she would really feel the best way she did when she heard it.
“She noticed herself in it,” Smallbone mentioned. “She noticed the guts of it and felt that her voice had a spot in it. That’s the check, proper? It’s like setting apart all of the advertising and marketing layers and the opportunistic facet of it; if somebody finds their voice by means of it, that simply feels prefer it has to occur.”
The journey to a famous person collaboration and a chart-topping place is a protracted trek for a tune that just about wasn’t on the album. Joel and Luke Smallbone, Jordan Reynolds and Josh Kerr initially wrote “For God Is With Us” for the duo’s Christmas album. Nevertheless, Smallbone believed the thought was too large to restrict the tune to a vacation album. They made a couple of lyrical changes to make sure it was related year-round and landed on as we speak’s chart-topping model.
“I really like Christmas,” Smallbone mentioned. “It’s my favourite vacation, however we ought to be celebrating this all yr spherical. We ought to be celebrating the redemption of humanity and the sacrifice of Jesus and being made proper with God. These are nice rules which have been round for 1000’s of years now, so this ought to be a year-round celebration.”
And it’s not the one collaboration the lads have within the works. The Smallbones have been growing an autobiographical feature-length movie that tells the story of their dad and mom’ “epic migration from Australia to America.” The movie will go into manufacturing this fall.
