"Multi-platinum and triple Grammy winning band Jars of Clay have long
held a reputation for creative excellence. With their latest record Good
Monsters, the band continues to create music that stretches the imagination
and offers a new perspective on who we are as a church today. Dan Haseltine
explains,
I was not sure how all of the experiences of the last few
years would translate into music. There have been so many things to look at and
describe. This record is part confessional, part euphoric love poem, part
bitter divorce, and part benediction. It was born out of many experiences and
conversations between addicts, failures, lovers, loners, believers, and
beggars. And so the language of recovery and the honest discourse about our
attempts to live apart from God and apart from each other is a theme. Engaging
people who are doing the hard work of laying their lives open to others, and
avoiding isolation, has allowed me to see that there is both immeasurable evil
and unfathomable good mixing under my own skin and it is grace, mercy and
freedom that allow me to not simply be a monster, but to be a good
monster.
With eleven original songs, and a remake of the Julie Miller-penned
anthem All My Tears, Good Monsters even boasts a couple of
stirring guest appearances: Nashville-based, Americana singer/songwriter
extraordinaire Kate York guests on Even Angels Cry, and formerly of
Sixpence None the Richer, Leigh Nash, sings on Mirrors and Smoke. "
-Provident
| Song List |
| 1.
Work |
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| 2. Dead Man (Carry
Me) |
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| 3. All
My Tears |
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| 4. Even Angels
Cry |
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| 5. There
Is A River |
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| 6. Good
Monsters |
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| 7. Oh My
God |
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| 8. Surprise |
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| 9. Take
Me Higher |
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| 10. Mirrors &
Smoke |
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| 11.
Light Gives Heat |
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| 12. Water Under The
Bridge |
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