Music Video Portrays True Story of Faith
for Hit Songwriter Jeffrey Steele
Video Premiered by Everything Nash
Currently Available on CMT.Com and Added to The Country Network
Currently Available on CMT.Com and Added to The Country Network
Nashville, Tenn.—Country Music singer/songwriter and “The Voice” Alum, Jared Blake, has released the poignant video for his latest single, “Orange Keychain.” Written by Jeffrey Steele, Brandon Hood, and Melissa Pierce, the song is based on Steele’s real-life experience with the accompanying video to intimate details of his personal story. Premiered by Everything Nash, the music video is currently on CMT.com and added to The Country Network. Watch the video HERE.
“Jeffrey Steele pitched this song to me during a write one day,” Blake tells Everything Nash. “I loved it right away. We stopped writing and laid down my vocals immediately. The song sat around for the next couple of years. I just wasn’t quite sure what to do with it. 2020 hit and the industry stopped. That’s when the song got personal. I had been a believer most of my life but had never really shared my faith. It was through surviving a time period in which the music industry closed up that my passion for speaking up about my faith began. I have a new job, but somehow never missed a paycheck. ‘People meet Jesus in the damndest ways.’”
When Blake decided to produce the single and create the video treatment, he reached out to Steele to get a few more details about the song. To his surprise, he was informed it was Steele’s personal encounter with his faith. In the video, a man on a red bicycle is shown throughout, and for good reason.
Explaining to Everything Nash, Blake says, “The red bicycle in the video is crucial to the storyline as it was crucial to Jeff. It was an encounter with a man on a red bike, on multiple occasions, that revealed God’s ever-present love to Jeff. As Jeff yelled at God to give him a sign, to speak to him, to let him know he was there, to show him the way, he pushed the man on the red bike away, only to realize that the man was just trying to help show him.”
Steele told Everything Nash, “This song is the result of a most amazing encounter with Jesus, one year to the day of my sobriety,” Steele says. “Proof positive that ‘by His stripes we are healed,’ spirit, mind, and body.”
Produced by Squeeks on Tour, the video was filmed in a small Chapel on The Experience Church’s campus, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as well as at the Renewed Life Ministries Outreach in Christiana, Tennessee. In the video, Blake Hamlin leads an actual Celebrate Recovery meeting at the sober living house. Chris Ruediger and Leon Maclamore also star in the video.
When comes to the song, Blake says, “I’ve never played this song without someone coming up to me and telling me that this song is their life.”
Listen and Stream “Orange Keychain” HERE.
Read the full premiere feature on Everything Nash HERE.
Streaming Times on The Country Network (Easter Times Zone):
Mon 07/11/2022 12:29pm, 6:00pm
Tue 07/12/2022 9:45am, 4:32pm
Wed 07/13/2022 10:47am, 5;25pm
Thu 07/14/2022 8:54am, 8:45pm
Fri 07/15/2022 2:07pm, 7:35pm
For more information on Jared Blake, visit www.JaredBlakeMusic.com