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David Crowder Band is a 6-piece electronic rock and worship band from Waco, Texas.
Band history
The band began when David Crowder realized that almost half of the students at Baylor University were not attending church, which he found surprising since it is a Christian university. He and Chris Seay started University Baptist Church in 1996 while he was still a student. Crowder led worship there and continued to do so throughout the year. The church's congregation grew, as did the band's lineup.
Crowder began writing songs to incorporate into the worship times at the church and eventually the church released an independent CD, Pour Over Me, followed by All I Can Say in 1999. These CDs brought the band to a wider audience and invitations to festivals and events followed. The band was signed to sixstepsrecords/Sparrow Records and has released six more albums to date (see discography). The band tours the United States continuously, but make it back to their home church in Waco, Texas, almost every Sunday. Kyle Lake, the former University Baptist Church pastor and longtime friend of the band, has had a strong influence on the band's music in terms of content and inspiration both during his life and after his tragic death.
With their September 2005 release, A Collision, David Crowder Band has explored a new realm of musical diversity. The album houses a mix of bluegrass, folk, alternative, and worship, woven together with a touch of electronic ambience. This release landed them the #2 spot on the iTunes Music Store and the #39 spot on Billboard 200 only one day after its release.
On the same day as the release of A Collision, their song "Turkish Delight" was released on the Music Inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia compilation CD. This song, which is a reference to the magical Turkish Delight in C. S. Lewis's book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, has an old-school disco feel.
On March 19, 2007, the band officially started recording its newest album. Titled Remedy, the band also revealed the album's website, http://www.remedyiscoming.com/, which allows fans to follow the band via live webcams, and discover more about the album. Famous southern rock musician Ted Nugent is expected to make a guest appearance on the album, on the song "We Won't Be Quiet".[1]
Awards
2006
David Crowder Band won their first Dove Awards at the 37th Annual Gospel Music Awards:[2]
- Rock/Contemporary Album of the Year - A Collision
- Rock/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year - "Here is Our King"
- Special Event Album of the Year - Music Inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia
The band also won two MSN awards:
- MSN Artist of the Month - July 2006
- MSN Artist of the Year - 2006 (against the competition: INXS, Prince, Christina Aguilera and Kenny Chesney)
Members
Current members
- David Crowder - vocals, acoustic guitar, programming and keytar
- Jack Parker - electric guitar, rhodes piano and banjo
- Taylor Johnson, aka "The Kid" - electric guitar
- Mike Dodson - bass guitar, programming and keys
- Jeremy Bush, aka "B-wack" - drums, percussion, circuit bending and programming
- Mike Hogan - violin, vinyl dj and programming
Former members
- Jason Solley - electric guitar, background vocals and mandolin
Discography
Official releases
- Pour Over Me
- All I Can Say (1999)
- The Green CD (2002)
- Can You Hear Us? (2002)
- The Yellow CD (2003)
- Illuminate (2003)
- The Lime CD (2004)
- Sunsets & Sushi (2005)
- A Collision (2005)
- B Collision (2006)
- Remedy (2007)
Also heard on...
David Crowder Band has also released tracks on several Passion Worship albums and the Chronicles of Narnia movie CD. Another interesting musical outlet was the creation of the theme music for Dr. James MacDonald's radio program Walk in the Word, a media ministry of Harvest Bible Chapel in Rolling Meadows, Chicago.
- The Road to One Day - Passion Worship Band (2000)
- Our Love Is Loud - Passion Worship Band (live, 2002)
- Sacred Revolution - Passion Worship Band (live, 2003)
- Passion: Hymns Ancient and Modern - Passion Worship Band (2004)
- How Great Is Our God - Passion Worship Band (live, 2005)
- Everything Glorious - Passion Worship Band (live, 2006)
- Music Inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia (compilation, 2005, Sparrow Records/EMD)
- Ultimate Music Makeover: Michael W. Smith (compilation, 2005)
- X Worship 2006 (compilation, 2005)
- X 2007 (compilation, 2006)
- WOW Christmas: Green (compilation, Christmas)
- Music Inspired By the Motion Picture Amazing Grace (compilation, 2007, Sparrow Records)
- Glory Revealed (compilation, 2007)
Random singles
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David Crowder Band has occasionally featured random and somewhat silly singles on their website, such as their rendition of "Feliz Navidad". Other seasonally appropriate recordings have been known to pop up in various forms, sometimes through their mailing list or other related outlets. Rumor has it that for the dedicated few, there is a secret section of the webpage that features a high-pitched male singing and playing piano which might be considered a single. The group is well known for having an interesting (and arguably esoteric) sense of humor, which surfaces in both their music and their relationship with fans. Many of their CD booklets contain "hidden" links to special features accessible through the web.
Books
David Crowder has authored two books:
- David Crowder, Praise Habit: Finding God in Sunsets and Sushi, NavPress, 2005.
- David Crowder, Mike Hogan, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, but Nobody Wants to Die or (The Eschatology of Bluegrass), Relevant Books, 2006.
Name
According to Crowder himself, it is wrong to refer to the band as "The David Crowder Band". The group prefers to omit the article, as they do not want to make the band sound so definitive and concrete as "The David Crowder Band".
The addition of the asterisk (*) to the name (rendering David Crowder*Band) is a common occurrence; however, the band uses this convention only in some logos. In text on their website and other media, the asterisk is omitted.
Trivia
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- A Collision first existed as a Word document that Crowder had put together from discussions with Kyle Lake.
- David Crowder Band music is featured in the Christian video game Dance Praise. The songs "O Praise Him", "Here is Our King" and "We Win!" can be added to the song list via the Dance Praise Expansion Pack Volume 1: Modern Worship.
- David Crowder has been known to use a keytar, an instrument made famous in the 80's by bands like Devo, which has become a point of mention in DC*B's concerts.
- Members of the David Crowder Band are fond of using Wikipedia as a resource and Crowder & Hogan expressed surprise in the book "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven..." at how accurate the information about the band found on Wikipedia is.
- Crowder has an orange Macbook laptop.
- Crowder has expressed a belief that squirrels, although cute, are inherently evil.
- Crowder's diet largely consists of tortilla soup and plain fettuccine alfredo (and an occasional Dr. Pepper) at the restaurant across the street from his Waco residence, 1424. He doesn't like garlic bread.