Matt Maher returns to the airwaves with “Gonna Be Alright,” a folk-pop ray of sunshine that originally premiered as a K-LOVE First. The song’s playful vibrancy opens a fresh artistic chapter for Maher as he begins a new journey toward his next long-awaited album, the follow-up to 2022’s “The Stories I Tell Myself.”
The timely “Gonna Be Alright” arrives as a relevant reminder that fear doesn’t have the final word, even when our circumstances tell a different story and hope feels hard to find.
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“I wrote this song, and I’m finding that it can be sung in praise and gratitude and also in times of sorrow where a bit of joyful resistance is needed,” the award-winning singer-songwriter shares. “Life is all kinds of weird and hard, and I’m sure many people are feeling similarly these days. But hope doesn’t disappoint or disappear within it. Keep holding on, and remember, ‘Don’t be afraid’ is the most used phrase in the Bible for a reason.”
While Maher references the lilies and the sparrows noted in Matthew 6 across the first verse of the country-flavored original, he also leans into the truth of Psalm 121:1-2: “I look up to the mountains — does my help come from there? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth!”
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Maher’s been teasing the happy track across his socials, which stirred fan excitement leading up to its release. Poised for a viral moment, his 12-year-old daughter even created choreography to accompany her dad’s latest recording, and she’s been teaching it to the whole family.
The father of three has also been previewing the hopeful “Gonna Be Alright” on “The Troubadours Tour” with Josh Baldwin and John Mark McMillan this spring. The acoustic trek concluded May 3 with a show at the K-LOVE Center in Franklin, Tennessee.
Maher is a part of this year’s Worship in the Round lineup on Saturday morning of the upcoming K-LOVE Fan Awards Weekend.
