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Eddie Carswell was interviewed by CBA a few weeks ago and we thought that you would enjoy the story:
CBA Industry Brief First Look: Eddie Carswell of NewSong
This week’s First Look brings readers into the life of Eddie Carswell, lead singer of the band NewSong. Now on tour with Bluetree and Chynna & Vaughn, NewSong’s latest CD, Give Yourself Away, released yesterday. Carswell spoke recently with CBA contributing editor Lauren Zaczek about the joyful chaos that currently swirls throughout his life.
What does a musician who’s been recording and touring for nearly 30 years do when he has a week off in the middle of a tour? He packs up his family in their van and heads to Disney World. With less than two hours left in their road trip to the happiest place on earth, the background noise of cheers and excitement from Carswell’s children continued to escalate. “The amount of noise in the car is always proportionate to the distance that you are away from your destination,” Carswell shared. “And if you couldn’t tell, we’re not too far away now.”
Having stopped at their grandmother’s home in southern Georgia for lunch an hour or so before, the Carswell family was taking advantage of a few days away from the routine of the touring the road on what may be one of NewSong’s most diverse tours to date. Not only is NewSong traveling the country with “a bunch of Irish lads who are fired up for the Lord,” but the Chynna & Vaughn team brings an unparalleled experience. “There’s a writer on tour with us who is writing Chynna’s life, and then there are the Baldwin brothers who are sometimes with us. When we were driving through Oklahoma the other week, Chynna said, ‘You know, I haven’t been here since my mother was in Dillinger and I was on set with her.’ That was in 1973. So we’re getting to see these different worlds that we typically wouldn’t.”