Beating Time
TITLE: REMEDY CLUB TOUR LIVE
ARTISTS: David Crowder Band
WEBSITE: http://www.davidcrowderband.com
STYLE: indie / pop / worship
FORMAL: CD + DVD
PRICE: £15.00
The David Crowder Band from University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, USA, has all the makings of ‘the next big thing’ on the reformation resurgence scene. I’d never even heard of them until a friend recommended their Remedy album back in August. I now own most of their albums.
The Remedy Club Tour Live combined CD + DVD package (not to be confused with other, earlier Remedy editions) is an excellent introduction to the band, and includes nearly five hours of video material.
Crowder himself is a rather charismatic character. The band currently consists of David plus five other extremely talented and creative musicians. The DVD features a 90-minute concert, including optional subtitles for the lyrics and chords. There is also a 15-minute documentary about last year’s Remedy tour, plus more than three-and-a-half hours of instruction on how to play the songs.
This is music with a mission: ‘We perceive music as a means of empathising with one another and enunciating something common among us in our experiences of life and faith ... this record is, for us, an answer to the question of how we interact with something much broader than ourselves. It’s to provoke change in ourselves, and to export that change to others’.
Most of the material is original, but Crowder also does a great job keeping older hymns current — e.g. ‘O for a thousand tongues’ set to a traditional American tune, with the addition of a helpful chorus. However, you’ll need to buy the studio album to get this one, as it didn’t make it to the live CD or DVD. Others, seem to have echoes of something older:
The day is brighter here with You
The night is lighter than its hue
Would lead me to believe
Which leads me to believe
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
And I am Yours
What does that make me?
My eyes are small but they have seen
the beauty of enormous things...
