B Collision: The Eschatology of Bluegrass

David Crowder Band

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It seems the David Crowder Band enjoys creatively naming its albums. The last disc earned the title A Collision or (3 + 4) = 7. And if you're gonna have an A, then it makes sense to follow with a B. Enter the latest release, B Collision: The Eschatology of Bluegrass, featuring intimate, acoustic and live versions of songs from its parent recording.

David Crowder describes it this way: "We prepared and distributed a musical documentation entitled A Collision. It would be rhetorical nonsense to have begun with B Collision. And thus, B follows A. It heaves its inspiration and meaning from what was ordered before it. It consists of a number of songs., most of them rendered in the acoustical fashion. Simple constructions. Wood and metal strings, vibrating the air. Some of these songs have been here before. But not presented in this manner. And then something fun happened on tour this fall. A moment of the live variety that we insist on sharing.

"And then there is the subtitle. A Collision had a subtitle, and B follows A, and so B must and does have a subtitle, The Eschatology of Bluegrass. Wood and metal singing, moving the air, telling of how things will be OK, regardless of how they seem right now. Something will follow. We are in sequence. And it just so happens we know the beginning and the end."

B Collision features the acoustic version of the current A Collision hit single "Wholly Yours," a song centered around the idea that God calls us to be holy as He is holy and then tells us it's impossible. But . . .

"The solution is a simple one," Crowder says. "Covered by grace we, being in Christ, are holy as He is holy, and thus the only hope we have for holiness is to bring the whole of our lives under the coverings of Christ. To be wholly under Christ's rule and reign is to be found holy as Christ is holy. I thought this was one of the most brilliant things ever. And it was so much like a good country and western song that I actually laughed out loud. And so, like any good country song, the punch line comes at the end with such a simple turn of phrase that is the difference between life and death, decay and newness, winter and springtime."

B Collision also features special guests Robbie Seay Band and Shane & Shane on "Be Lifted" and "I Saw the Light." Overall, the project lives up to its name (and subname) as it offers a collision of ethereal, worshipful, creative and rollicking tracks.

Get more info at davidcrowderband.com.

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