Seasons of change… -
Good friend, business partner, fellow musician and now fellow ex-Merchant Bander, Joshua Hawkins, shares his tales and stories over the past few years.

Now that I am no longer with Merchant Band there are questions I find myself facing.
Questions that I wish were settled but they aren’t. Issues that haven’t been worked out yet. Primarily…
…Do I Believe in a Nameless and Faceless Generation?
I’ve been here before. The pressing issues of unperceived ambition and pride are right back on […]

Many of you know I have been playing with Merchant Band for 5 years. It has been a blast! I’m leaving the team on good terms with no motives other than the Lord is shifting things for all of us. It’s a good time for me and the band.
In celebration of the legacy that we’ve […]

Introducing Merchant Band’s sophomore release: The World Can Wait

(More Merchant Band news that will shock your socks off coming later this week.)

Tonight is the first night of the Atlanta onething conference and tonight was Merchant Band’s debut performance of Tim’s new song “You Love Me Forever”. This song is the first ’single’ of our new album due out this fall. It’s also the promo song for this year’s big December onething conference…

Merchant Band made it into Tampa this morning, and I would like to take a minute to publicly thank Southwest Airlines for being the greatest airline in the world. Seriously, Southwest is the Apple of the sky.
We were running late this morning and we got to the airport about 40 minutes before our flight was […]

Merchant Band is in the studio this weekend working on our next project. I love being in the studio with these guys. It’s always a blast coming in with our initial plan for the song and then recording it a few times, listening to it, recording it again, working out a
new part, talking […]