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Someone recently asked me what my favorite “religious” song was. I didn’t really prefer that naming of a “Christian” song, but I obviously knew what they meant by the question.
As I thought about it, my first thought was to not choose one of the current favorites because how can a recent song be my all time favorite? That led me to thinking about songs I enjoyed when I was much younger and growing up. Nothing really stood out to me as an all time favorite still.
I then thought about the great hymns that were sung in church as I was …read more

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I just received this e-mail from the folks at Nettwerk Music and figured who better to share it with than my readers on Christian Music Fan.
MIRRORS & SMOKE VALENTINE’S DAY FAN VIDEO
Roses are Red, violets are blue, the biggest Jars fan may have all their wildest dreams come true! In light of Valentine’s Day, Jars of Clay would like to get you in the mood for their upcoming Spring Tour. Simply help us out by doing any four items listed below, and enter to win a Valentine’s Day Package including a Compilation CD made by Jars of Clay, a video …read more

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**LIVE MONSTERS SPRING TOUR DATES**
2/09/07 Memphis, TN @ FedEx Forum
2/16/07 Gatlinburg, TN @ Gatlinburg Convention Center
2/19/07 Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theater
2/21/07 Calgary, AB @ MacEwan Hall
2/22/07 Edmonton, AB @ W. Edmonton Christ Assembly
2/23/07 Kelowna, BC @ Grand Hotel
2/24/07 Surry, BC @ Chandos-Pattison Auditorium
3/01/07 Vancouver, WA @ Skyview Concert Hall
3/02/07 College Place, WA @ Walla Walla Community College
3/03/07 Missoula, MT @ SHEC Community Center
3/04/07 Great Falls, MT @ Mansfield Theatre
3/06/07 Salt Lake City, UT @ University of Utah
3/07/07 Greeley, CO @ Union Colony Civic Center
3/09/07 Duluth, MN @ venue TBA
3/10/07 Fargo, ND @ Playmakers
3/11/07 Sioux Falls, SD @ Washington Pavilion
3/23/07 …read more

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Even though we’ve still got a little over a month left in the year, Christianity Today has released their list of the Bets Albums of 2006.
Our annual selections for Best Christian Albums in small part serves as a snapshot of the state of the industry, and what’s particularly interesting about this year’s list is how many of the finalists seem “outside the box.” Many of the artists have a foot in both Christian and mainstream markets without finding runaway success in either, and some of them are established artists who today continue to record and distribute music independently. It all …read more

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The free song download this week at HearItFirst is is “Comatose” by Skillet.
If you haven’t signed up for the Hear It First newsletter yet, you really should. Free Christian music showing up regularly in your Inbox is a good thing. You can choose from WMA or M4A format depending on whether or not your a Windows or Mac type.
I’ve gotten behind in keeping up with all of my e-mail and had three from Hear It First that I hadn’t downloaded the songs yet. I opened each one and followed the provided link and was still able to grab some free …read more

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With their recent release of “Good Monsters“, there doesn’t seem to be any better of an artist to highlight this week than Jars of Clay. I’ve been a fan of Jars of Clay since their freshman, self-titled release with favorites like “Flood” and “Love Song for a Savior”. It wasn’t too long ago that I saw them perform at the Indiana State Fair, as well as shared a snippet of a recent interview of Dan Haseltine, their lead singer.
The band has a separate website where I found some historical information about the band so I can share some of their …read more

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The free download this week from HearItFirst.com is the title track from Jars of Clay’s new album “Good Monsters”. This is a great song, excellent score to be able to download it free.Be sure and stop by the HearItFirst website and just see for yourself how Good Monsters has taken over the place and made it their own.
Thank you HearItFirst!

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Dan Haseltine, lead singer of Jars of Clay, is interviewed on Christianity Today. It’s a really great interview and talks about how the band came to record their soon to be released album “Good Monsters” available next week.
The specific quote that really hits home is:
The gospel never calls us to live our lives privately, but the idea of individualism and isolation has worked itself into our idea of what a good Christian life looks like—that it’s full of quiet times where it’s just us and God. But for me, when I get into that scenario, the only voice I’m really …read more

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The big Christian music concert was at the Indiana State Fair last night and I was there, along with five other friends (maybe more but I didn’t see them or know they were there). We had a huge let down when we arrived:

There’s a line that came out of nowhere at 6:45pm to get into the grandstands. It was after 7:00pm before we got into the venue.
With the rain Indy experienced earlier in the day, they decided not to setup seats on the track area immediately in front of the stage, and that’s where are tickets were. They gave us …read more

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This time tomorrow I’ll be preparing to head down to the Indiana State Fairgrounds and the Pepsi Coliseum to hear Michael W. Smith, Third Day and Jars of Clay in concert. I’ll be sure to take my camera and try to get plenty of pictures of everything. I paid good money for the seats, so hopefully we’ll get some close-ups.
Remember, if you’ve been to a concert recently, I’d love to hear your review and share it with the world.

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