Jars Of Clay

Jars Of Clay - Dan Haseltine, Steve Mason, Charlie Lowell and Matt Bronleewe formed Jars of Clay at Greenville College, in Greenville, Illinois in the early 1990s. Charlie Lowell first met Dan Haseltine after noticing that he was wearing a Toad the Wet Sprocket shirt. Pursuing a career in music together was not necessarily their original goal; some of the first songs they wrote together were for music and recording classes they were taking at the time. Their second guitarist Matt Odmark joined some time later. While in college playing together at local coffee houses, Jars gained a reputation for their original arrangement of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" which had been adapted to the tune of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit". In 1994, the band submitted a demo to a talent competition run by the Gospel Music Association and were selected as finalists.They traveled to Nashville to perform and won the contest. Back in Greenville, they self-released a limited-run of the same demo, which they named Frail, after their song of the same name. The buzz from their performance in Nashville and the demo's popularity resulted in offers from record labels, so the band decided to drop school and move to Nashville. At this time, Bronleewe left the band to finish school and settle down with his fiancée. He was replaced with Matt Odmark, Lowell's childhood friend and fellow McQuaid Jesuit High School alum.Jars of Clay signed with Essential Records and started recording their first full-length studio album, titled Jars of Clay. King Crimson progressive rocker Adrian Belew heard the band and offered to produce, leading to him producing two songs - "Liquid" and "Flood". The band's self-titled debut released in 1995. When the single "Flood" began to climb the charts on mainstream radio stations, Silvertone Records (Essential's parent company) started to heavily promote the song, turning it into one of the biggest mainstream hits ever by a band on a Christian label. The album has since reached multi-platinum certification according to the RIAA. "Flood" peaked at No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 12 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart, and was the band's only secular radio hit.

                                          

EP: "Drummer Boy" (1995)  

Little Drummer Boy
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

album: "Jars Of Clay" (1995)  

Liquid
Sinking
Love Song For A Savior
Like A Child
Art In Me
He
Boy On A String
Flood
Worlds Apart
Blind
Four Seven

album: "Much Afraid" (1997)  

Overjoyed
Fade To Grey
Tea And Sympathy
Crazy Times
Frail
Five Candles (You Were There)
Weighed Down
Portrait Of An Apology
Truce
Much Afraid
Hymn

album: "If I Left The Zoo" (1999)  

Goodbye, Goodnight
Unforgetful You
Collide
No One Loves Me Like You
Famous Last Words
Sad Clown
Hand
I'm Alright
Grace
Can't Erase It
River Constantine

album: "The Eleventh Hour" (2002)  

Disappear
Something Beautiful
Revolution
Fly
I Need You
Silence
Scarlet
Whatever She Wants
The Eleventh Hour
These Ordinary Days
The Edge Of Water

album: "Who We Are Instead" (2003)  

Sunny Days
Amazing Grace
Lonely People
Only Alive
Trouble Is
Faith Enough
Show You Love
Lesser Things
I'm In The Way
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Jealous Kind
Sing
My Heavenly

album: "Redemption Songs" (2005)  

God Be Merciful To Me
I Need Thee Every Hour
God Will Lift Up Your Head
I'll Fly Away
Nothing But The Blood
Let Us Love And Sing And Wonder
O Come And Mourn With Me Awhile
Hiding Place
Jesus, I Lift My Eyes
It Is Well With My Soul
On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand
Thou Lovely Source Of True Delight
They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Love

album: "Good Monsters" (2006)  

Work
Dead Man (Carry Me)
All My Tears
Even Angels Cry
There Is A River
Good Monsters
Oh My God
Surprise
Take Me Higher
Mirrors & Smoke
Light Gives Heat
Water Under The Bridge

album: "Christmas Songs" (2007)  

Wonderful Christmastime
Love Came Down At Christmas
O Little Town Of Bethlehem
Hibernation Day
Winter Skin
Peace Is Here
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Christmastime Is Here
Little Drummer Boy
Gabriel's Message
In The Bleak Midwinter
I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day

album: "The Long Fall Back To Earth" (2009)  

Weapons
Two Hands
Heaven
Closer
Safe To Land
Headphones
Don't Stop
Boys (Lesson One)
Hero
The Scenic Route
There Might Be A Light
Forgive Me
Heart
Save My Soul[Limited Edition Bonus Track]
Caught-Escape[Limited Edition Bonus Track]
Love Won't Let Us[Limited Edition Bonus Track]

album: "The Shelter" (2010)  

Small Rebellions
Call My Name
We Will Follow
Eyes Wide Open
Shelter
Out Of My Hands
No Greater Love
Run In The Night (Psalm 27)
Lay It Down
Love Will Find Us
Benediction

album: "Inland" (2013)  

After The Fight
Age Of Immature Mistakes
Reckless Forgiver
Human Race
Love In Hard Times
Pennsylvania
Loneliness & Alcohol
I Don't Want You To Forget
Fall Asleep
Skin & Bones
Left Undone
Inland

other songs:

All I Want Is You
Be Thou My Vision
Bethlehem Town
Christmas For Cowboys
Coffee Song
Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing
Dig
Drive
Everything In Between
Headstrong
If I Stand
Needful Hands
Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
Prisoner Of Hope[from "Closer EP"]
Redemption
Rose Colored Stained Glass Windows
The Chair
The Comforter Has Come
The Stone
The Valley Song (Sing Of Your Mercy)
The Widowing Field
This Road
Waiting For The World To Fall[from "The Chronicles Of Narnia" soundtrack]