“The best songs,” according to Wade, “are first poetry. They are written specific enough to show the concrete reality of the gritty details of life but broad enough to appeal to the human experience of all kinds of people.  They simultaneously uncover the nature of reality in a broken world and expose possible answers to the question: ‘how should a life be lived under the sun?'”  This is why he calls his approach to country music “country music for the soul.”  Indeed, this is the goal of Wade’s debut full album Through the Fire — to touch the human soul.