JesusFreakHideout.com posted a great concert review of the May 22, 2010 Jars of Clay show in Hampstead, Maryland. Click here to read the review.
Flood Update from Gray Matters
Jars of Clay's Nashville studio, Gray Matters, received damage from the flooding over the weekend. The team is working hard to sort through the impact and begin the repair phase. Your thoughts and prayers for everyone in the Nashville area are greatly appreciated.
Recording of The Shelter has been set back a week or so, but the band is anxious to get back to recording when not out doing shows.
DOVE AWARD WINS
Jars of Clay won 2 Dove Awards at this year's 41st Annual GMA Dove Awards. The band won one award for the Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year for their latest album The Long Fall Back To Earth as well as an award for the album’s Recorded Music Packaging.
“It’s a big grace to us. At the end of the day, it’s an award,” Jars of Clay’s Charlie Lowell said backstage at the show. “But we’re humbled by it. There’s a sense of gratefulness that 16 years in, we love what we do still, we care about each other and there’s other people out there who care about what we’re doing."
PHOTO: AT GRAY MATTERS, MARCH 30, 2010
VIDEO: IN THE STUDIO: THE STUDIO COBBLER
VIDEO: IN THE STUDIO: TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY
WATER:WALK WITH JARS ON MARCH 22ND
Monday, March 22nd is World Water Day. Blood:Water Mission and Jars of Clay will be hosting a Water:Walk in downtown Nashville on March 22nd from 6-7 PM CT, starting at Symphony Center Plaza at 4th Avenue. Please join us. For additional details, click here.
PHOTO: A LITTLE STUDIO JOY
Review of Live At Gray Matters, Volume I
Read JesusFreakHideout.com's review of Live At Gray Matters, Volume I here.
PHOTO: LISTENING TO PROGRESS
Jars Receives Six GMA Dove Award Nominations
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.
Live at Gray Matters, Volume I is Now Available
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. 1Great Concert Review from the 1/17/10 Sellersville, PA Show
Check out this great concert review from Kevin Davis, of NewReleaseTuesday.com. Read it here.
Stephen Talks about our trip to Kenya
Two Hands Tour- Pre-Show Music Playlist
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