Lead singer Chad Wolff and I chatted about the new album and fall tour with Gavin DeGraw and David Cook. Make sure to check out Wild Blessed Freedom out now and visit www.carolinaliar.com for tour dates!
Arin: What are you most looking forward to with the tour?
Chad: Just getting back out and playing these songs live. All the new stuff, seeing how it works, you know we’ve been working on it for the last six months or so just putting together the new show with all the new gear and all the new songs and kind of seeing just how everything reacts and just seeing these songs kind of come to life in front of people is always a bit of a gift.
A: What is your favorite song off the new album?
C: Right now I think the favorite song is a song called “Salvation” because its got this massive, massive chorus on it and whenever we’re playing it live, it kinda just has one of those immediate reactions, it’s something that can get people out of their seats quickly and that’s always a lot of fun to see when you’re standing on the stage and all the sudden you see a couple hundred people starting to boogie out in their seats at the same time.
A: As a band, are you involved with any nonprofits or charities?
C: Yeah next week we are doing some stuff with a charity called Falling Whistles that goes into the Congo and saves these young kids that get abducted into fighting for the rebels that are there. These children get taken from their families at a really young age and all they’re given is a whistle to kind of let the older rebels know that the opposition forces are coming in. So this charity, what you do is you buy one of these whistles and they go in and they get these children out of terrible situations and gets them reformed and kind of teaches them how to be children again and were really into that. The other thing is that we donate stuff to Goodwill and Mr. Holland’s Opus just about anything we can get our hands on and give away, we try to do that.
A: Is there a song on this album that really tells a story through the lyrics to the point where if you were reading the lyrics you feel like it’s a short story?
C: There is. Pretty much all the songs are that old kinda singer/songwriter/storyteller song. If you start digging, there’s one particular thing I’m thinking about right now, a song called “I Don’t Think So” , on this new record and it kind of plays that progression, where it starts off as a story from the opening line of the song and the first line is “When you prayed for seven white horses
Did your wish ever come true?” is one of those constant things talking about a specific situation and if you put it all together it just becomes a simple little story.