Charlie Peacock: Accepting the Gift of Freedom

AAJ: Well, this has become a big side of what you're doing. You sound pretty excited about it. I assume you're going to continue with your pop solo stuff and production?

CP: Well, I definitely won't do any more records for any of the Christian labels, as far as pop solo stuff. My moment has long been over with there. And I actually don't intend to do any production in that area, just because it's taken all the fun out of everything. The production that I'm working on now is Karl Denson's Tiny Universe. So I'm working on their next record and that's a lot of fun; Karl's a great saxophonist. Then, all the rest of them are artists that I'm developing, so I've got three, four artists right now that we're all presenting to labels, kind of getting to that point of making record deals for them.

AAJ: Where do you find these artists?

CP: Well, a lot of this current generation of young musicians have come to me because of Switchfoot, my signing and developing them. They're big fans of theirs, so they want to find the guy that did that. I think that's the main attraction. And then also just the normal routes, whether it's attorneys or somebody's grandma [laughing]. I actually have an artist right now that we're working with; she's fantastic. She's seventeen years old, great singer, great developing songwriter, and I got her CD from her grandmother.

Selected Discography

Charlie Peacock, Love Press Ex-Curio (Runway Network, 2005)
Sam Ashworth, Gonna Get It Wrong Before I Get It Right (Runway Network, 2005)
Charlie Peacock & Friends, Full Circle (Sparrow, 2004)
Sara Groves, The Other Side of Something (INO, 2004)
Audio Adrenalin, Worldwide (Forefront, 2003)
Switchfoot, Beautiful Letdown (RED Ink/Columbia, 2003) (Producer only)
Twila Paris, True North (Sparrow, 1999) (Producer only)
Charlie Peacock, Kingdom Come (Rethink, 1999)
Sarah Masen, Carry Us Through Chordant, 1998)
Switchfoot, Legend of Chin (Rethink, 1997)
Eric Champion, Transformation (Essential Records, 1996)
Charlie Peacock, Strangelanguage (Forefront, 1996)
Charlie Peacock, Everything That's On My Mind (Sparrow, 1995)
Phil Keaggy, Time 1 (Myrrh, 1995)
Out of the Gray, Gravity (Sparrow, 1995)
Margaret Becker, Soul (Sparrow, 1993)
Amy Grant, Heart in Motion (A&M, 1991)
Charlie Peacock, The Secret of Time (Sparrow, 1990)

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Charlie Peacock