Junior’s Cave Golden Isles Online Magazine presents our newest interview with Contemporary Christian group Prayer/Life. The music this group produces speaks to us from God’s heart. The band’s music is full of God’s love for his children and his compassion for mankind. Here is the entire interview our publication completed with the group. We hope everyone reading this article will enjoy discovering the special treat of Prayer/Life!

Group Members:
Andrea Davis-Griffin - Vocals, flute
John Stallworth - Synths, piano, keyboards

Isaac: It’s an amazing time to be a DIY artist/performer/band/musician. What do you feel you contribute musically to the Indie Music Culture?

Prayer/Life: This is Andrea for Prayer/Life, that’s an interesting question, Isaac. I’ve never been asked this in any magazine or radio interviews before, but you are right, it is an amazing time to be an indie musician, the sky is the limit for us now. What do we contribute musically? Well, every band and every musician is unique. But we are uniquely unique, if you will accept that, in that we are playing contemporary Christian music that sounds like no other CCM group at all because we are bringing together the new age sound in the keys with the singer-songwriter vocal style.

We just read a fan comment posted yesterday on Jango.com about our single, “I Cover My Face” that says “The instrumentation is so unobtrusive and open. It leaves so much room for the listener to hear the lyrics.” That is not typical in CCM which tends to for more toward a rock or pop sound, trying to reach the youngest listeners. We are not trying to reach the youngest listeners, and thus our fans span all age groups, we have enthusiastic teens but we have enthusiastic older folks too who have just discovered our sound. The Indie Christian music culture is best found at IndieHeaven.com where we set at #1 for 2 months.

Isaac: If you had an opportunity to sign with a major label, would you sign now knowing you may have to give up some of what you have built up over the years about you in the process?

Prayer/Life: That’s a problem we haven’t faced yet! We would definitely sign if we felt the label understood our mission and would help us get this inspirational music out much further. What would make this an easier choice is that we aren’t in this to make money but actually to share the songs God has given us with more people around the world, (John is an engineer and I am a clinical psychologist) so the fact that labels do not benefit the musician financially would not present the same problem as it would for other people trying to make a living from their music.

Isaac: I remembered Simon Cowell from American Idol talking about the “it” Factor that makes a musician/band stand out. What do you think is your “it” factor that makes you stand out from others in the music business?

Prayer/Life: The “it” factor was hinted in in my last answer, the fact that God literally gave us these songs. We prayed, waited with self-restraint until we felt God was giving a song, and only then wrote each song on “In Our Midst”, our first album. And the fact that the songs touch so many people so deeply and we keep hearing the similar comments from fans: “absolutely beautiful” “inspiring” “anointed” and “soothing to the soul” confirms that others get what we get from these gifts of songs.

Isaac: What is the one element that will makes you stand out from the rest of the musicians/artists in the music industry?

Prayer/Life: Just what I was explaining, that we are in this for ministry and to share songs God has given us. This isn’t easy. I want to have more songs. I want to sit down and write songs. But if I am not feeling dialed in or tuned into God, that is just going to be me, Andrea, making up stuff, that may please me but it won’t be part of a larger purpose. I know that if I wait for a song God gives me, then it was meant for some person for some purpose and that is the whole reason for doing this.

My life was plenty full with a huge psychology practice and raising a family. I didn’t need to add this music making stuff. But I felt called to. So I said Yes. In fact, a song slated for our next album (#2) is called “Say Yes” and another song has a line in the refrain that says “But I’m listening this time….” This refers to key times in my life when I felt God’s direction but didn’t listen and the regret about the losses and suffering that resulted.