Real life stories of fans inspire new Matthew West album

AWARD-winning singer/songwriter Matthew West has begun work on his latest album, 'The Story Of Your Life', to be released in the autumn of 2010. A natural continuation of his best-selling 2008 album, 'Something To Say', West's upcoming project will tell the real life stories of his fans. Beginning early March, West began collecting stories via his web site. Within a month he received thousands of submissions from fans sharing the most important moments of their lives. These stories will be the foundation for those songs on 'The Story Of Your Life'. Said the songsmith, "'Something To Say' was written in the hopes of encouraging others that they really do have something to say. . . they matter. God has created everyone to live a life that will tell a story of his love to the world in a unique and amazing way. I see now that these lyrics from the last record were pointing the way to where I would be heading with the next album: Your life is the song that you sing, and the whole wide world is listening."

The songwriter continued, "Several months ago I had a vision of the inside of a cabin with thousands of stories from people printed out and spread all over the tables and floors and couches and chairs. I had a vision that I would be there in the cabin, reading the stories, praying for inspiration, and writing like crazy." That vision became a reality, as West spent the month of March in a cabin in Tennessee reading stories and writing songs for the album. He will continue collecting stories and writing songs through late April.