Genre: Pop/Rock, Worship
Members: Nathan Nockels (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Christy Nockels (vocals)
For fans of: Out of the Grey, Sons and Daughters, Passion worship albums
Label: Rocketown Records

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Thoughts from Watermark's Christy Nockels This record is a celebration and a remembrance of seasons past…10 years of marriage and ministry, the beginnings of parenthood, songs of love and renewal, blessings coming in and blessings going out… the list goes "on and on more than I can remember." Nathan and I look back on where we began and are truly amazed at the hand of God.

Watermark began in Houston in 1997 (as the overflow of our "Sons & Daughters" days with Charlie & Kimber Hall in Oklahoma) leading worship for Metro Bible Study at Houston's First Baptist Church. Leading at Metro was how Rocketown first heard about us and that next year we flew to Tennessee for a visit. We love to reminisce about that first meeting with the staff and Michael W. Smith, the owner of this "feels like family" label. I remember it was a cold November day, and we all had our bulky sweaters on as we took a brisk walk in charming downtown Franklin for a cup of coffee. In Houston we were deprived of the changing of the seasons, so that day I collected bright-colored leaves in the front yard of the little yellow house where Rocketown first began. I held on to those leaves and later made a plaque for the label with some song lyrics and a pressed leaf in it as a "signing" bonus from us!

As new artists we helped Derek Jones stuff press packets for the other artists on the label, and I periodically cleaned the kitchen and the toilets for free. Nathan and I also ran our own baby-sitting service for label president Don Donahue since he and his wife had a 3-year-old and had just welcomed twins the week we signed! Much has changed through the years, including our willingness to stuff press packets or clean toilets! (And we're the ones finding baby sitters now!) But no matter how the seasons have changed, our Rocketown family has always been so gracious to us, believing in us at all costs, and striving with us to make music that would connect people to the living God.

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