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To play along with the video in GCEA tuning, you either have to put your capo on the 9th fret (whew!) or detune from GCEA to EAC#F#. Thanks to Sharon Baird for introducing this song to BUG!
Dubbed “one of Christian music’s most prolific singer-songwriters” (Billboard), Matthew West has notched 38 #1 songs combined as an artist and songwriter. West is also a five-time GRAMMY nominee, NSAI’s 2022 Songwriter-Artist of the Year, ASCAP’s 2023 Golden Note Award recipient, ASCAP’s Songwriter of the Year recipient, and a multiple ASCAP Christian Music Songwriter/Artist of the Year winner. He has received an American Music Award, a Billboard Music Award, K-LOVE Fan Awards, GMA Dove Awards, and has been named Billboard’s Hot Christian Songwriter of the Year. A recipient of the Rich Mullins Impact Award, West also received a Primetime Emmy® Award nomination for Original Music & Lyrics for the title track for the feature film “The Heart of Christmas.”
Even so, fans sometimes buy tickets to his concerts based on their enjoyment of a tune that likely won’t ever win any honors: “Gobble Gobble.” “Gobble Gobble” is one of several popular silly songs West has written over the years. “Quarantine Life” (2.7 million YouTube views) expressed the feelings of lonely Americans in April 2020: “I think I might have had a birthday, but I don’t know what month it is.”
The official video for the Thanksgiving-themed “silly song” was released in fall 2020 and has tallied 3 million YouTube views. West began singing silly songs when he was a new artist and didn’t have a record deal. “I was an independent artist traveling around playing college campuses, and a lot of times the colleges would set me up in an area of the campus where there really wasn’t an audience,” West related. “People were just walking by and so I would play my normal songs, and maybe one or two people would come. And then to try to get people’s attention, I would just start making up a song about some college kid who, you know, was stuffing doughnuts in his face or something. … And the crowd would start to gather. And I always remembered that."