New Rocketown Artist, Shaun Groves
Crosswalk.com takes a few minutes to chat with Shaun about his new found recording career.
Updated Aug 22, 2001
Rocketown Artist -- Shaun Groves
I had the pleasure of speaking with Shaun Groves a few days back. I learned some interesting facts about Shaun as an artist and as a person.
Join me as I allow you to “eavesdrop” on a few things we talked about…
Humble beginnings …
Shaun: I started in the music business as a tape-copy guy at Brentwood Publishing. I basically listend to demos all day and educated myself about songwriting. After Brentwood, I worked as the worship planner at First Baptist Church in Franklin. Myself and others on the worship team would meet together and come up with songs, movie clips, dramas that would go with the sermon. A lot of times we couldn’t find anything and I would pray and ask God to give me something.
Then Brentwood called and asked me to write songs for a band. The band didn’t like them as much as their own, but their record company liked my voice and started escorting me to every label in town, and I eventually signed with Rocketown.
The Inspiration behind the lyrics …
Shaun: Personal experiences. Actually, “Welcome Home” came while we were decorating our bathroom. The people before made it trashy looking and we wanted to make it us.
Sometimes it comes from personal Bible study, and sometimes in the case of “Damage Done” and “Two Cents” it’s from situations we’ve went through with friends.
MUSICAL Influences …
Shaun: I actually used to be a musical idiot. Growing up, we only had three records in our house. My wife introduced me to artists like Elton John, Michael W. Smith, and Billy Joel.
Actually, I go through periods when I’m writing that I don’t listen to anything, because I soak it up like a sponge and it sounds just like the artist. Because I don’t want to be influenced, and we all are.
Favorite track on “Invitation To eavesdrop”…
Shaun: Musically, “Damage Done”. Lyrically, “His Renown”. “Damage Done” because it’s accessible rock. It’s not P.O.D. or Limp Bizkit, but it’s enough to make us people in our twenties feel like we’re rocking. It rocks enough.
“His Renown” because I don’t want my music to be about me,
but about God. I believe the whole Christian life should be about knowing God and making Him known. And that’s what “His Renown” is about.
I feel sometimes interviewers just want to know about me…Like they’re writing a interview for Teen Beat…My favorite color, food, that kinda stuff. It’s a good song to keep me accountable, if I ever go off on myself, people can say, “Remember your song, ‘His Renown’”.
The meaning behind the title “invitation to eavesdrop”…
Shaun: First of all, a lot of people that listen to my songs feel like their eavesdropping since my lyrics are personal. And another thing is that people eavesdrop on our lives as Christians. We should always be ortraying a picture of Christ.
Until next time ... The J-MAN
I had the pleasure of speaking with Shaun Groves a few days back. I learned some interesting facts about Shaun as an artist and as a person.
Join me as I allow you to “eavesdrop” on a few things we talked about…
Humble beginnings …
Shaun: I started in the music business as a tape-copy guy at Brentwood Publishing. I basically listend to demos all day and educated myself about songwriting. After Brentwood, I worked as the worship planner at First Baptist Church in Franklin. Myself and others on the worship team would meet together and come up with songs, movie clips, dramas that would go with the sermon. A lot of times we couldn’t find anything and I would pray and ask God to give me something.
Then Brentwood called and asked me to write songs for a band. The band didn’t like them as much as their own, but their record company liked my voice and started escorting me to every label in town, and I eventually signed with Rocketown.
The Inspiration behind the lyrics …
Shaun: Personal experiences. Actually, “Welcome Home” came while we were decorating our bathroom. The people before made it trashy looking and we wanted to make it us.
Sometimes it comes from personal Bible study, and sometimes in the case of “Damage Done” and “Two Cents” it’s from situations we’ve went through with friends.
MUSICAL Influences …
Shaun: I actually used to be a musical idiot. Growing up, we only had three records in our house. My wife introduced me to artists like Elton John, Michael W. Smith, and Billy Joel.
Actually, I go through periods when I’m writing that I don’t listen to anything, because I soak it up like a sponge and it sounds just like the artist. Because I don’t want to be influenced, and we all are.
Favorite track on “Invitation To eavesdrop”…
Shaun: Musically, “Damage Done”. Lyrically, “His Renown”. “Damage Done” because it’s accessible rock. It’s not P.O.D. or Limp Bizkit, but it’s enough to make us people in our twenties feel like we’re rocking. It rocks enough.
“His Renown” because I don’t want my music to be about me,
but about God. I believe the whole Christian life should be about knowing God and making Him known. And that’s what “His Renown” is about.
I feel sometimes interviewers just want to know about me…Like they’re writing a interview for Teen Beat…My favorite color, food, that kinda stuff. It’s a good song to keep me accountable, if I ever go off on myself, people can say, “Remember your song, ‘His Renown’”.
The meaning behind the title “invitation to eavesdrop”…
Shaun: First of all, a lot of people that listen to my songs feel like their eavesdropping since my lyrics are personal. And another thing is that people eavesdrop on our lives as Christians. We should always be ortraying a picture of Christ.
Until next time ... The J-MAN
Originally published August 22, 2001.
