Jars of Clay has received six nominations for this year's GMA Dove Awards, in the following categories: Artist of the Year; Group of the Year; Song of the Year for "Two Hands"; Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year for The Long Fall Back To Earth; and 2 nods for Recorded Music Packaging of the Year for the standard and limited editions of The Long Fall Back To Earth.

Come inside Jars of Clay’s Nashville headquarters for Jars of Clay’s Live At Gray Matters: Volumes I-IV, a four-part, audio/video EP experience. The first edition, Songs From The Long Fall Back To Earth, released February 2, 2010 with the following volumes coming Spring 2010, Summer 2010 and Fall 2010. Each EP contains five audio tracks plus an accompanying performance video of the band recording the songs inside its Nashville headquarters. Live At Gray Matters Volumes I-IV will bring listeners new audio/video recordings of some of their favorite songs from the Jars of Clay repertoire.

Here's a sample from the Volume I video:

Safe To Land from Live At Gray Matters: Vol. 1

Check out this great concert review from Kevin Davis, of NewReleaseTuesday.com. Read it here.

Someone on Twitter asked what music we are spinning for pre-show music, and i thought it would be fun to blog it.  There's so much creative fresh music coming out these days... we love to pass it on.  So here goes:

Two Hands Tour Pre-show Playlist:

St. Vincent:  Save Me From What I Want
The Submarines:  The Thorny Thicket
Phoenix:  Countdown (Sick For the Big Sun)
Copeland:  Should You Return
The Republic Tigers:  Buildings & Mountains
M83:  Kim & Jessie
Royksopp:  True To Life
Sigur Ros:  Med sud i eyrum
Friendly Fires:  Strobe
Paper Route:  Wish
Kyte:  Bridges in the Sky
Royksopp:  Happy Up Here
Empire of the Sun:  Walking On A Dream
Astronaut Wife:  Cape Canaveral (alias remix)
Telefon Tel Aviv:  When It Happens It Moves All By Itself

Walkout:  Sigur Ros:  Inni mer syngur vitleysingur