Colton Dixon – Super-Seeker

CCM Magazine: Take us to the beginning and how this project ended up becoming more of a concept-type album, an album of three distinct movements.
Colton Dixon: I feel like it’s been a long time coming. It’s been over a year that I’ve had this idea in my head. It started with a different title, but with the same original concepts. It basically came from looking back and seeing areas of my life that were slowly eating away at me—and not even really realizing it. That’s why God gave us His Word. He reveals those things to us, which allows us to see and nip them in the bud, and to then focus our attention back on the right things. Also, as it relates to the album title, realizing that I had placed my identity in things that didn’t really matter—a refocusing of my life and emptying the toolbox, so to speak.

Maybe it was things that I had learned growing up that possibly weren’t even true. Sometimes we have to do that just to gather up the tools that we need to use. It was kind-of a spiritual journey for me. I split the record into three sections: Mind, Body, and Spirit to dive deeper into each specific area. That’s a little behind the overall concept behind Identity.

CCM: Can you give us more insight into your interpretations of the Mind, Body, and Spirit as it was intended for Identity?
CD: For sure. I think a lot of us have heard those three terms used together. Ultimately, they are what makes up our identity. [On the album] I really wanted to start with the Mind, because that’s where an idea comes from. It’s the starting point in making an action, if that makes sense. You’re going to think about something before you actually do it. In this section I present a few topics for the listener. I want to get them thinking and opened to what God has for them. Talk about taking your thoughts captive, every song pertains to the mind. I love that.

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Next is the Body, and it’s really about challenging us to become the person that God has called us to be. There’s a song on the Deluxe Version (buy) called “Warriors” that speaks to this. My wife and I got to visit Samoa for Thanksgiving last year and learned how that is a big part of their culture. The men are warriors. They have a tradition called the Siva Tau, a tribal war dance and chant that we actually used on the top of the track. That was really cool and I think it goes along with the song pretty well.

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