I Was Wrong, I'm Sorry & I Love You
| I Was Wrong, I'm Sorry & I Love You | ||||
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| Studio album by Derek Webb | ||||
| Released | August 6, 2013 (pre-release) September 3, 2013 (release) |
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| Recorded | Fort Sumner Studio, East Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. | |||
| Genre | Folk, contemporary Christian music | |||
| Length | 52:41 | |||
| Label | Fair Trade Services | |||
| Producer | Derek Webb | |||
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| AbsolutePunk | 85% |
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| HM |   |
| Indie Vision Music | |
| Jesus Freak Hideout | |
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| New Release Tuesday | |
| The Phantom Tollbooth | |
| The Phantom Tollbooth | |
I Was Wrong, I'm Sorry & I Love You (2013) is the eighth studio album from American singer and songwriter Derek Webb, released on September 3, 2013.
The album is a return to his more acoustic guitar-driven earlier work. Webb was the producer, engineer, and nearly sole musician on the album, made in his home studio in Nashville, Tennessee. The themes on the album include battling cynicism, coming to terms with who God makes us to be, Jesus' nearness to the disenfranchised, unity among the divisions of the church, the hard work of marriage, and God's great love. He has called it "easily the most confessional and autobiographical work of my career." The album came under scrutiny after it was reported that Webb was involved in an extramarital affair at the time of its release and promotion.
Regarding the multi-faceted meaning of the album title, Webb explains that he grew up hearing that they were the three things we must learn to say in order to sustain every relationship -a friendship, marriage, or even a church community. Webb stated in an interview that "if I am consciously, deliberately making a record about the church again, I thought I should start with those three statements (I was wrong, I'm sorry, and I love you.)."
His intentions throughout his solo career are expressed by lyrics in the title track, "over all these years, there's just three things I've tried to say." The title expresses a need for Christians to sincerely and earnestly say these things to the world around them and to each other. Webb says, "above all is an album about looking beyond our disagreements to the things we have in common, especially within the church."
This album is essentially a follow-up to his first solo album, 2003's She Must and Shall Go Free. As Webb approached its 10-year anniversary, he began to reflect on how that album would have looked if written today, still exploring the relationships between the church, the culture and himself. The observations, encouragements, criticisms and confessions he discovered—while asking the same questions 10 years later—resulted in the songs comprising I Was Wrong, I'm Sorry & I Love You. He has called the album "a return to strength, a rest from running, and an encouraging start to what I hope to be 10 more years of 'afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted,' starting, as always, with myself."
The first video from the album, for the title track, was released to the Internet on July 30, 2013. The video featured Webb with clips of his fans singing along to the lyrics and holding up various signs with the chorus lyrics on them.
RELEVANT magazine featured the title track, "I Was Wrong, I'm Sorry and I Love You" on their website as well as premiering its video.
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