![]() With a bold trust in God that most people-let alone teenage parents-don’t exhibit, Rhett and April chased this calling laid on his heart to pursue music and songwriting. The more I sang the more things started opening up.” “So I was a drummer at church growing up until one day they called me out front to sing ‘Grace Like Rain’ by Todd Agnew, and I never went back to the drums. “I always knew I wanted to do music, but I couldn’t sing as a kid I was just terrible at it,” he says with a trademark matter-of-factness that is charming and disarming. They welcomed a daughter, Rileigh, and became active in church where Walker began leading worship.Īs they matured in faith and expanded their family (a son, Jett, was born two years later), a growing number of opportunities for Rhett to lead worship at other churches and on college campuses helped him let go of his construction and factory work. He got a diploma, and she made their $300-per-month apartment into a home. He rededicated his life to God, and she accepted Jesus for the first time. Let’s do everything right from here on out.” I finally sat down with April, who is now my wife, and said: We’ve done everything wrong that we possibly can. My girlfriend’s having a baby, and I have no job. “I’ve still got my senior year left, but I’ll have to leave this religious school where I’m high most of the time anyway. “It was like, Man, what am I doing?” he remembers. Presented with a ton-of-bricks reality at 17, Rhett could stay on the downward spiral or step up. He’d gone on to play drums in the praise band, too, but generally just stopped caring. Walker grew up in church he knew the answers to the questions on Sunday morning better than other kids. It wasn’t long after that we found out she was pregnant. So they sent me to this Christian school, the only one that would take me, and I met this girl. It wasn’t long before I was expelled from school-just always in trouble. “I mixed with the rough crowd, got into fights and drugs. I just went nuts, doing whatever I wanted to do in the moment,” he says. “We moved away from my hometown when I was 16, and I didn’t like that. Indeed, Rhett is a shining example of faith, family, and country values today-an experienced man who teaches that grace comes with a calling, a clear message in his transformative single “When Mercy Found Me.” But nearly a decade ago, no one would have predicted as much. In that drawl, he tells an intense wild oats story tempered by God’s grace, a testimony that fuels the deep-fried rock and deep- down worship on Rhett Walker Band’s debut, Come To The River. The outspoken 25-year-old son of a preacher was born and raised around the South, his mellow yet animated voice a sure mix of Georgia and the Carolinas. Rhett Walker is not like any rising Christian musician you have met before or will meet again soon. I’m not afraid to stand and say what people won’t.” -Rhett Walker, “Get Up Get Out” ![]()
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