Derek Webb

Derek Webb started playing music in the mid-1990s with the band Caedmon's Call, where he wrote songs alongside Aaron Tate and Josh Moore. After leaving the group in 2001, he put out his first solo album "I Spy," which drew attention for its direct, personal lyrics.

In 2004, Webb released "Mockingbird," an album that openly dealt with doubt and depression. It stirred discussion in Christian music circles and established him as an artist willing to question things out loud. Three years later, he followed with "A King & A Kingdom," whose title track became one of his most recognized songs.

Webb's writing often circles around faith, fear, and politics, as heard in songs like "A Savior On Capitol Hill" and "American Flag Umbrella." He works in a space between folk, rock, and alternative sounds, but it's the plainspoken, sometimes uneasy questions in his lyrics that have kept people listening.