Everybody is talking about how great artificial intelligence is, but can it write a hit song? Our prompt for A.I. was: to write a song about pizza and grace in the style of Matthew West. Matthew's challenge was to turn the computer-generated words into a hit song and I have to say, he killed it! Mat

We talked with Matthew about his favorite Christmas traditions, and then he wrote, on the spot, a Christmas song we won't soon forget. The title says it all: “Nobody Wants a Dead Dog for Christmas”. The song starts at 3:21.

Matthew West has a new podcast, so naturally, Wally felt that he needed a ukulele jingle for it. Matthew then returned the favor by writing a jingle for the Wally Show Podcast! Wally also gave Matthew West some podcast advice.

It's graduation season, and even though there are countless great tunes for moving on to the next chapter of life, we thought we could take it to the next level by writing our own. We took some of your ideas of graduation cliches and had Matthew West work them into a song. As always, he absolutely k

In honor of Valentine's Day, we challenged Matthew West to write an ultra cheesy Christian love song for a kid in youth group. See what he comes up with in our latest version of "Musical Chopped": Matthew also talked about his new album "Brand New" and the significance of a blue couch. Plus, we play

In another round of "Musical Chopped," Matthew West gave us the perfect song to shop to on Black Friday!

In the TV show "Chopped," chefs have to make gourmet meals out of bizarre items in their baskets. In our version of "Musical Chopped," Matthew West had just 10 minutes to write a song about the scenario represented in his basket: an emotional one-man boy band going through a midlife crisis at goat y

Our very own Wally is officially a half a century old! As we celebrate him and all he's meant to us, we also wanted to include messages from some of his favorite artists like Matthew West, for King & Country, Bart from MercyMe, and Natalie Grant. Plus, speaker Jon Acuff, comedian John Crist, and eve

We already know that Matthew West is the master of turning the most mundane things into beautiful music, based on how he's composed songs from Wally's hate mail. This time, we decided to challenge him to write a custom jingle for one of our listeners. We got Daniel the Uber driver on the phone to te

Taking a holiday road trip? Checkout these five Christmas Editions of the More Than The Music Podcast. MORE THAN THE MUSIC EPISODE 59 Featuring Mike, Jeff, and Jason from Tenth Avenue North   MORE THAN THE MUSIC EPISODE 58 Featuring Mark Hall from Casting Crowns   MORE THAN THE MUSI

Matthew West joins me on Episode 57 of the "More Than The Music Podcast" to share the stories behind his latest album and what it means to be "All In."        Matthew opens up about his struggle with being a "professional christian." ENTER TO WIN AN AUTOGRAPHED MATTHEW WEST "ALL IN" CD!

"If this isn’t 'hair goals,' I don’t know what is." That's what Matthew West said about his new lyric video to the song, "Jesus & You." He wrote the song about his wife and used video footage (and great hair) from their wedding day. How adorable is that?   WATCH MATTHEW WEST SING WALLY'S HATE MAIL!

When you take Matthew West's song lyrics and run them through Google Translate into another language then back to English, you get very different lyrics. We challenged Matthew to sing his newly translated songs in a game of "Lost in Translation!"

From time to time, Wally receives some harsh emails. Thankfully, we have our friend Matthew West around to make beautiful music out of those hurtful words. See Matthew West singing more emails:     

> “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.” Romans 8:18 #BrokenThings > > — Matthew West (@matthew_west) July 3, 2017 Have you ever felt disqualified to be part of God's kingdom? Matthew West has. But he's learning everyday that "o

Wally teaches a college class on creativity at Lipscomb University and invited Matthew West to tell his story and sing an improv song based on suggestions from the class. One student named Jared showed up late that day with a melted popsicle, so he quickly became the subject of Matthew's on-the-spot

Wally occasionally gets some pretty harsh hate mail. One way for him to cope with the pain they bring is to have Matthew West take the angry words and put them to music. Once you hear this song, it'll be stuck in your head all day. > The mouth, the mouth, mouth of Wally disgusts me  

BRITTANY'S STORY: > As a child, I was sexually abused with abuse outside of that, and growing up, I struggled with depression. I felt like my self-value was so tainted and so broken. When this song came out...I was driving down the road, and I actually had to pull over. I felt like God had been try

The Music Team picked some awesome songs this year! Here are your 10 songs of 2016! If you want to pick the top WAY-FM music in 2017, sign up for the Music Team. JOIN THE MUSIC TEAM!   10. "JUST BE HELD" BY CASTING CROWNS   9. "GOD IS ON THE MOVE" BY 7EVENTH TIME DOWN   8. "EYE OF THE STORM"

We played a Christmas edition of Great Minds with Matthew West and uncovered some surprising stories .   We talked with Matthew about his favorite Christmas traditions, and then he wrote, on the spot, a Christmas song we won't soon forget. The title says it all: “Nobody Wants a Dead Dog for Christma

Matthew West joins me on the More Than The Music Podcast to share the stories behind his album, "Unto Us: A Christmas Collection," and a few of his Christmas memories and traditions. Subscribe through iTunes | Subscribe through Google Play | Subscribe Using the RSS Feed Matthew recently started a ne

Matthew West's original Christmas song "Unto Us" was inspired by this verse in Isaiah. Watch him perform the song live and talk about the story behind it. > "For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And he will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Might

Writing an award acceptance speech can be challenging, so we crashed the Dove Awards red carpet to help tobyMac, Lauren Daigle, Steven Curtis Chapman, and others write their thank you speeches, three words at a time.   Want to hear our full interviews on the red carpet? We even left in some off-mic

Matthew West joins me on the More Than The Music Podcast to share the stories behind his album, "Live Forever." Subscribe through iTunes | Subscribe through Google Play | Subscribe Using the RSS Feed He also shares how his wife reacted when country music group Rascal Flatts asked to record this love