Jars Of Clay

Hailing from Nashville, Tennessee USA, the Alternative-Rock act Jars Of Clay originated in 1993 as a collaboration between singer+songwriter Dan Haseltine and keyboardist Charlie Lowell while both attended Greenville College in Illinois; soon after, the pair recruited guitarist Steve Mason and started gigging around the Contemporary Christian music circuit. The band then expanded to a quintet with guitarist Matt Bronleewe and drummer Scott Savage.

In 1994, Jars Of Clay self-financed and recorded a demo entitled "Frail" which earned them a contract with Essential.
The following year Bronleewe left to be replaced by Matt Odmark and by October the group released their self-titled debut full-length disc, which featured the American Top 40 hit "Flood", this single also reached the #12 slot on The Modern Rock chart and the #16 on The Mainstream Rock Tracks sending the album into the top 50 of The Billboard 200 list and at the top of the Billboard Magazine's Top Contemporary Christian chart; that same year the band scored another Contemporary Christian top 5 hit with the Christmas EP "Drummer Boy" and "Jars Of Clay" album, ended up with sales of over 2 million copies.
The band's sophomore LP, "Much Afraid" came out in September 1997, going straight to #8 on The Billboard Top 200 chart highlighted by the Modern Rock top 40 single "Crazy Times"; their second effort won a Grammy Award for Best Gospel Album but it wasn't an upbeat album like the first.
Two years later Jars Of Clay released its third full-length, Joe Porter was added as a new drummer in the live line-up, to replace Savage; "If I Left The Zoo" rose to #1 on the Billboard's Contemporary Christian list and was awarded a Grammy for Best Contemporary Gospel Album but missed the top 40 of the official U.S. Top 200 chart; it provided only one minor hit single, "Unforgetful You".
The follow-up CD, "The Eleventh Hour", which was issued in early 2002, reached #28 on The Billboard Top 200 chart and included the radio single "I Need You", the track received massive airplay on alt-Rock Contemporary Christian stations; the band's fourth LP won them their third Grammy, once again for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album.
A year later the group released the retrospective collection "Furthermore: From The Studio, From The Stage" and their fifth studio-record, "Who We Are Instead" which featured the single "Show You Love"; both the full-length discs climbed into the top 5 of the Billboard's Top Contemporary Christian Albums chart.
March 2005 saw the release of "Redemption Songs", this album restored Jars Of Clay to the top of the U.S. CCM chart; later in the year the group recorded "Waiting For The World To Fall" which was included in the soundtrack of the film "The Chronicles Of Narnia".

The group unleashed a new album, "Good Monsters", in September 2006; the set, completely self-produced by the band, contains the CHR radio singles "Work" and "Dead Man (Carry Me)".

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Jars Of Clay

(1995)

1. Liquid
2. Sinking
3. Love Song For A Savior
4. Like A Child
5. Art In Me
6. He
7. Boy On A String
8. Flood
9. Worlds Apart
10. Blind

 

Drummer Boy
[EP]

(1995)

1. The Little Drummer Boy
2. The Little Drummer Boy [Grinch mix]
3. Blind [Fluffy Sav mix]
4. Wicker Baskets

 

Much Afraid

(1997)

1. Overjoyed
2. Fade To Grey
3. Tea And Sympathy
4. Crazy Times
5. Frail
6. Five Candles (You Were There)
7. Weighed Down
8. Portrait Of An Apology
9. Truce
10. Much Afraid
11. Hymn

 

If I Left The Zoo

(1999)

1. Goodbye, Good Night
2. Unforgetful You
3. Collide
4. No One Loves Me Like You
5. Famous Last Words
6. Sad Clown
7. Hand
8. I'm Alright
9. Grace
10. Can't Erase It
11. River Constantine

 

The Eleventh Hour

(2002)

1. Disappear
2. Something Beautiful
3. Revolution
4. Fly
5. I Need You
6. Silence
7. Scarlet
8. Whatever She Wants
9. The Eleventh Hour
10. These Ordinary Days
11. The Edge Of Water

 

Who We Are Instead

(2003)

1. Sunny Days
2. Amazing Grace
3. Lonely People
4. Only Alive
5. Trouble Is
6. Faith Enough
7. Show You Love
8. Lesser Things
9. I'm In The Way
10. Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
11. Jealous Kind
12. Sing
13. My Heavenly

 

Redemption Songs

(2005)

1. God Be Merciful To Me
2. I Need Thee Every Hour
3. God Will Lift Up Your Head
4. I'll Fly Away
5. Nothing But The Blood
6. Let Us Love And Sing And Wonder
7. Our Lord Is Crucified
8. Hiding Place
9. Jesus, I Lift My Eyes
10. It Is Well
11. On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand
12. Thou Lovely Source Of True Delight
13. And They Will Know We Are Christians By Our Love

 

The Chronicles Of Narnia
[soundtrack]

(2005)

INCLUDES:

- Waiting For The World To Fall

 

Good Monsters

(2006)

1. Work
2. Dead Man (Carry Me)
3. All My Tears
4. Even Angels Cry
5. There Is A River
6. Good Monsters
7. Oh My God
8. Surprise
9. Take Me Higher
10. Mirrors And Smoke
11. Light Gives Heat
12. Water Under The Bridge

 

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