By CMSpin
After the David Crowder Band was voted MSN’s Artist of the Year 2006, MSN noted, “They've single-handedly redefined what contemporary Christian music should sound like…” David Crowder Band lives up to that billing and follows up 2005’s critically acclaimed and commercially successful A Collision with what promises to be one of 2007’s best offerings, REMEDY. The band’s fourth full-length studio album releases September 25.
The album’s first single and the band’s fastest charting single to date, “Everything Glorious” moved up to No. 12 this week on R&R’s Christian AC Monitored chart and cracked the Top 10 on its Christian AC Indicator chart, only seven weeks since its add date. The song was first performed live earlier this year at Passion ’07 in Atlanta and has been a set list favorite throughout the band’s touring schedule this spring and summer. Other highlights on the album include a special guest appearance by the “Motor City Madman” Ted Nugent on “We Won’t Be Quiet,” the energetic and driving “Neverending,” and the synth-laden dance track “Can You Feel It?”
“The David Crowder Band continues to recast the modern worship conversation with language and musical texture that affirm our shared values while energizing our expressions with uniqueness and creativity,” says Louie Giglio, sixstepsrecords founder and popular speaker/author. “Remedy is a beautiful and redemptive leap forward in what has already become a storied journey for this band. Crowder's latest offering is laden with the potential to engage the listener with worship that transforms the world.”
Always rearranging the norm, David Crowder Band gave fans an inside look at the recording process for the new album in the spring, offering an eight-webcam view of The Barn, a recording facility built by the David Crowder Band in the legendary barn of Dr Pepper fame. Fans were given unprecedented access to the recording process with cameras left running 24 hours a day. In addition to watching the recording in real time, fans were given early hints of what is coming through video blogs posted by band leader David Crowder.
David Crowder states, “We perceive music as a means of empathizing with one another and enunciating something common among us in our experiences of life and faith. Our band’s latest musical offering is for us the next available step in this journey; musically, lyrically, and thematically it is the sound of one foot coming down firmly in the present while the other simultaneously rises, exiting the space previously occupied, throwing our weight in a forward direction of momentum and consequence toward whatever lies ahead.”
Remedy picks up right where A Collision - the universally acclaimed 21 track, 73 minute epic that made everyone’s Top Ten list – left off. The last line A Collision offered an apology of sorts and a bit of foreshadowing:
“And I’m trying to make you sing from inside where you believe. Like it’s something that you need, like it means everything. And I’m trying to make you feel that this is for real, that life is happening. That it means everything. I’m just trying to make you sing.”
REMEDY is a continuation of this effort, offering ten tracks that are arguably the most accessible and pop centric of the band’s career while at the same time diving deep into the theology of worship and what it means to be a part of the remedy that people around the world seek on a day to day basis. Whether it is a cure for AIDS, bringing an end to extreme poverty or the seemingly endless violence and aggression around the world, the need for change is evident. On this album, David Crowder Band addresses the obvious need for an ultimate remedy, yet knows that words and songs can do little to create change. They are mindful however that in recent history, songs and popular music acted as a catalyst for such change and gave voice to movement. With REMEDY, the hope is to inspire action.
Plans are in the works to tie the fall tour to the idea of providing a remedy, finding a way to connect fans in each city to the needs in their own community and around the world. The REMEDY Club Tour kicks off October 3rd, one week after the record hits shelves. The REMEDY Club Tour takes the band along with openers Phil Wickham and The Myriad from New Orleans through Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, New York City, Atlanta and all major markets in between. (Full tour schedule below)
David Crowder Band has captured the attention of such significant media as the New York Times, CNN and FOX News as part of the cable network’s coverage of Creation East. The band has toured with Michael W. Smith, Third Day and Mercy Me including a headlining tour with Mute Math. The first Christian artist to be named MSN.com’s Artist of the Year as well as foster a partnership with M-Audio/Propellerhead’s Reason software, Crowder is also the namesake behind premiere guitar maker Tom Anderson Guitarworks’s Crowdster Acoustic. Despite the success, David Crowder Band makes it a point to get back to University Baptist Church on most Sundays, a church they helped found on the campus of Baylor University in Waco, TX. The band is also featured at the enormously popular collegiate Passion gatherings. The band’s leader David Crowder is further an acclaimed author, having penned two books, including his acclaimed, highly personal, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, But Nobody Wants to Die: Or (The Eschatology of Bluegrass).
REMEDY CLUB TOUR Dates:
10.03.2007 New Orleans House of Blues New Orleans
10.04.2007 Austin La Zona Rosa
10.05.2007 Dallas House of Blues Dallas
10.06.2007 Houston The Berry Center, Cypress TX
10.07.2007 San Antonio Floores Country Store
10.09.2007 Albuquerque Kiva Auditorium
10.11.2007 Phoenix Celebrity Theatre
10.12.2007 San Diego House of Blues San Diego
10.13.2007 Hollywood House of Blues Sunset Strip
10.14.2007 Anaheim House of Blues Anaheim
10.16.2007 San Francisco The Fillmore
10.18.2007 Portland McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
10.20.2007 Seattle Moore Theater
10.21.2007 Spokane The Service Station
10.22.2007 Boise The Big Easy
10.24.2007 Denver Fillmore Auditorium
10.25.2007 Manhattan, KS McCain Auditorium
10.26.2007 Tulsa Cain’s Ballroom
11.01.2007 Chicago House of Blues Chicago
11.07.2007 Cincinnati Bogart’s
11.08.2007 Philadelphia The Electric Factory
11.09.2007 Boston Avalon
11.10.2007 New York City Hammerstein Ballroom
11.11.2007 Washington, D.C. 9:30 Club
11.13.2007 Raleigh PEC Raleigh Memorial Auditorium
11.14.2007 Columbia Township Auditorium
11.16.2007 Atlanta The Tabernacle
For more information on REMEDY and David Crowder Band, please visit www.remedyiscoming.com or www.davidcrowderband.com.