Our story
From the tour bus to the sanctuary
For roughly eight years, CLINE was a country act. Garrett and Darrick Cline made up the core of Dylan Scott's touring band — somewhere near two hundred days a year on the road, playing on gold, platinum and double‑platinum records, and working arena stages on Luke Bryan's Proud To Be Right Here tour. The trajectory was steady and the future looked settled.
Then touring stopped. In 2020 the road went quiet all at once, and the silence left room for a harder set of questions about calling and obedience. What started as an interruption turned into a redirection.
Stepping out without a safety net
CLINE moved into worship music with no label, no manager and no radio team — supported instead by their home church in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The first song out of that season was “Refuge,” written with producer Curt Gibbs, someone Garrett and Darrick already knew from the country side of the business.
The writing changed with the calling. Instead of chasing a Nashville formula, the songs started coming out of Scripture, prayer and ordinary devotion — honest, unguarded and built to be sung rather than admired.
“Rooted in faith, family, and the local church, CLINE offers music that feels less like a product and more like a companion.” Scott Fehrenbacher, BREAKOUT magazine, January 2026
A sound with dirt on it
The music pulls from worship, modern country, Americana and Southern gospel in roughly equal measure. Warm instrumentation, organic arrangements, unfiltered vocals — arrangements that stay out of the way so the words carry. Lyrically it sits close to the Psalms: theologically grounded, but written in the language of people having a hard week.
“Worthy One,” written and recorded with country artist Mo Pitney, remains the song most people meet them through. It sits alongside “He Is,” “We Follow Jesus” and “Lord of Heaven” — declarations meant for a room full of people, not headphones.
Ministry before platform
The measure that matters to CLINE is whether a church can use the song. Most of their catalog is written, tested and reworked inside real worship services before it is ever released, which is a slower way to make records and a better way to make ones that last.
That posture extends to the business side. Lyric sheets and chord charts are free on this site, ungated. Playback and Ableton sessions go out on request. The point is for the songs to get sung.
A family, first
Behind the name is a family — Garrett and Jacquelyn Cline, and Garrett's brother Darrick — who treat worship as something that happens at home before it happens on a stage. The harmony is the audible part of that. The trust underneath it is the rest.
What's next
The mission stays where it started: exalt Christ, serve the church. Ahead are more Scripture‑driven songs, live recordings made with congregations rather than for them, and collaborations with people who want the same thing.
