Clip of Jennifer Knapp

I sent you and I've been emailing back and forth to book this interview. I've been listening to similar songs and One thing or at least one aspect being unfamiliar with Your work as it's been coming out. I noticed that the earlier stuff had a more pop your sound to it And the older you got the song sounded more mature and deeper So I was wondering if you still play your early songs and if so how does the field that play them now at a very different place in your life? Oh, that's a good question. Yeah, I think there's no doubt that you know, I've definitely aged I think part like as a songwriter sometimes I just go I don't want to work that hard Like it's so physical what I do Particularly when I'm doing a lot of solo acoustic work and driving the live performance is just me and my acoustic And then I go back and I still play the I mean the short answer is I still play some of my old stuff I don't play all of it. You know my body's changed over time As well, so there's a physical component to it But yeah, every once in a while play one of those rock songs for my youth and then you know bend over and hold my knees for a minute

And gosh, I had no idea that I would have to have that kind of energy, you know in my middle age But it it's a fun thing to be able to to keep on playing them and there's a big difference as well too between the what I call career 1.0 and career 2.0 where in the early days a lot of my music was very much focused on the faith conversation I'm very pointed in and the specific about the religious experience that I was having and now I think as well Like one of the things that showed up in my music as I think there's still that you know, I still Tap into spiritual kind of thoughts That are there, but I'm not as pointed with it. It's a lot more subversive and I don't know the things that also concern my life really I guess the phrase is adulting You know, there's there are things about love that really means something to me in a different way that that it meant to me when I was 20 years old and The cost of losing love seems so much more severe

Um rather than kind of seeking it Um, but I think that's been a common thread throughout my music, but it has changed and it's in its orientation. I suppose