With a small window of availability between them, they decided to give fans one more chance to see Third Day live.ĭuring a 15-city farewell tour in June of 2018, the remaining members put an exclamation point on an extraordinary run that includes more than 10 million albums sold, four GRAMMY® Awards, one American Music Award, 24 Dove Awards and an induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. (Guitarist Brad Avery exited in 2008.) That left Powell and guitarist Mark Lee, who were both in the midst of lining up their next endeavors. At this point, Third Day bassist Tai Anderson and drummer David Carr had already moved on to pursue other interests. Petty’s death-and, ultimately, his wife’s thoughtful advice-changed Powell’s mind. To be honest, we thought we were just going to kind of disappear into the sunset and not really say anything about it.” “We knew so many bands who made big announcements, and then they came back again and did 10 years of farewell tours, and we didn’t want to do that.
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“We had known within the band that we were done for at least a couple years, and we were trying to figure out how to wrap it up and how to finish well,” Powell shares. She had a point but still, Powell was hesitant to commit to public displays of fanfare as his beloved band closed a nearly three-decade chapter. That’s when his wife, Aimee, stepped in with a valid observation: The way Powell felt about Tom Petty? Maybe that’s the same way fans felt about Third Day. “Even though I’d never met him, I was a big fan, and I was kind of roaming around the house in a fog for a couple weeks,” Powell says.
And in the fall of 2017, the longtime frontman found himself in a funk. Powell never intended to formally announce the conclusion of Day.
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