Jeremy Koering of Music Faith: First, could you tell me a little about your band?
Josh Pearson of Nevertheless: We’ve been a band for about three and a half years. We’ve been seriously perusing music the last two years of those years. We just recorded a new record, coming out in one week. The album is called, Live like we’re Alive, we have our first single out called “The Real.” I don’t think there is really anything else going on…
Jeremy Koering: Where are you guys from?
Josh Pearson: We’re from Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Jeremy Koering: What made you decide to start a career in music?
Josh Pearson: It was about two years ago, I went off to school to college in Chicago for a year, and when I came back the band stayed together without a lead singer, they’d been like writing songs and playing. So that summer, let’s see, the summer of ’04, and all of us at the same time prayed about it and talked about what we should do. And all of us dropped out of college and start touring full time.
Jeremy Koering: What’s been the most exciting thing to happen since being signed?
Josh Pearson: Hmm, it was really cool recording our first album; we got to live in Florida for two months. And we recorded with James Paul Wisner, and everyday we’d wake up and go to the studio and record like, all day long. So that was like a brand new experience for me.
Jeremy Koering: Do you have any goals you’d like to accomplish with music and your band?
Josh Pearson: I guess the main goal is to reach as many as possibly can, with touring and the record. I don’t have any numbered goals or anything. We just want to get out there and reach as many as possible.
Jeremy Koering: How did you get the name Nevertheless?
Josh Pearson: The name comes from Luke chapter 5 in the Bible. We were reading together about 3-3 and half years ago, the disciples were fishing and Jesus told them to cast there net at the other side of the boat, and Peter said, we’ve been fishing all night and haven’t caught anything, never the less, at your word we’ll put down our nets. So it’s out of Luke chapter 5.
Jeremy Koering: Like you said earlier, your first single is “The Real,” could you explain what the song is about?
Josh Pearson: The verses talk about someone who is going through a trial and like a hard time in there life, to the point where they start losing their belief in God a little bit. The chorus says that we are the real, this stuff happens in real life. It just means, no matter what we think God is still God and he still loves us and protects us. That’s why the bridge says don’t stop believing and that’s the last line of the song. So the song is just about don’t give up your belief in the middle of a trial.
Jeremy Koering: Do you have a favorite line or part of the song?
Josh Pearson: Hmm, let’s see… I don’t know, I haven’t thought about that… *laughs*… It’d probably we are the real but the truth is unchanging.
Jeremy Koering: Cool… Is there a story or inspiration behind the song “O’ Child?”
Josh Pearson: We wrote it in the hotel room, actually, when we’re at the studio, and we didn’t think it’d be on the album, because it didn’t exist. I guess that’s just the way I was feeling when I wrote the lyrics to that song. It was just like; God was calling me back to himself. I don’t know, sometimes you just feel like you’re straying away from God and from what he has you doing and you lose focus, and in the hotel room that night, God was calling me back to himself.
Jeremy Koering: Could you tell me a little about the title track as well?
Josh Pearson: Yup, “Live like we’re Alive,” actually we wrote that song, for us, that song was about being in a band. Y’know when your in a band it takes a lot of opposition, sometimes people don’t believe in you and they doubt you, and it gets hard, financially and emotionally, traveling all the time. When you know that God wants you to do something you have to do it with all your might and all your power. So that’s why the chorus says “Here I stand, I’m read for anything, I’m just a man, but I’m giving everything. “ That’s what we’re called to do everyday, to give everything we have. To do what God calls us to do.
Jeremy Koering: Do any of the songs have special meaning to you personally over any of the others?
Josh Pearson: I think “Patience and Devotion.” It’s the second track. That song talks about having patience in a relationship; it’s faith that takes us there, that’s what the chorus says. I have a fiancé it’s been a long time coming, and we’re getting married in like a year. I kind of wrote that song in the point of being inpatient and stressed out in waiting so long for stuff like getting married. So that’s where the song came from.
Jeremy Koering: Do you have any tour plans?
Josh Pearson: Currently we’re on Shout Fest; it’s like a traveling festival out east, and so every Saturday and Sunday. And we’re doing that for the fall, in January, they’re booking Flicker Records tour, which will probably be out west.
Jeremy Koering: Do you have any last comments?
Josh Pearson: Umm, I don’t know, I don’t think so, check out the record, September 19th 2006.
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