Genre: Christmas, Pop/Rock, Worship
For fans of: Steve Green, Dan Fogelberg, Michael English, Newsong, 4Him, Phillips, Craig & Dean, Bryan Duncan, Bob Carlisle
Label: Spring Hill Music

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When it came time to choose a title for his Spring Hill Music debut, Wayne Watson didn't have to think too long about it. For a man who has spent his whole career writing and singing about life, both the divine and the temporal, the phrase Living Room seemed more than appropriate, especially in light of what he's learned over the last few years. This project finds him stretching himself musically and spiritually into some new spaces.

"I feel like the two words "living room" have a lot of connotations," Wayne says. "After knowing the Lord most of my life, I feel like He is giving me the room to live the life He intended me to live. I feel like I'm finally living, because I understand more about what it means to have a relationship with him, and not an oppressive relationship. Just to live and to be at liberty to live is something that I'm enjoying, finally, after quite a few years."

The phrase also applies to Wayne's relationship with his audience. He explains, "A comment we get often in concert is for people to say, 'Man, we just felt like we were sitting in your living room and you're just playing for us.' In a concert of a few thousand people, that's a good thing to happen. That's a very warm, comfortable thing and I take that as a very high compliment."

Wayne has always written and sung about all aspects of life, drawing from the belief that if God is the Lord of your life, there isn't anything of which He isn't a part. This is apparent throughout his catalog of hits, some of the biggest of which were written about his family — wife Lynn and sons Neal and Adam. But Living Room is unique in his discography in that the two boys his audience watched grow up in his music are now helping him to create it.

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