By MICHAEL E. YOUNG / Staff Writer The David Crowder Band at House of Blues Dallas The House of Blues might not be the sort of venue that fans of the David Crowder Band expect for the boys from Waco. And that's exactly why the DCB chose it for the Dallas stop on their Remedy tour.
The whole tour is club-type venues, says frontman David Crowder, because we want to get our folks into a space outside of a church building, so to speak. I think it will be a healthy thing for them to find God in a place where they might not expect it. But then, the Crowder band specializes in the unexpected.
Courtesy The David Crowder Band The group that the MSN network said single-handedly redefined what contemporary Christian music should sound like has never been easy to pin down, with CDs ranging from shimmering pop to electronica, blistering rock to country and bluegrass. Even as the band's success grew MSN's Artist of the Year in 2006, a run of five-star CD reviews and a rabid corps of faithful fans the DCB refuses to give up its permanent gig, leading worship at Waco's University Baptist Church on Sunday mornings. That's where everything comes from, Mr.
Crowder says. What we do on tour is just a reflection of what we're doing here at the church. The band's stop at the House of Blues comes just a couple of weeks after the release of Remedy , the first full album of new material since 2005's much-honored A Collision , a sprawling collection that managed to incorporate Hank Williams' I Saw the Light and Ralph Vaughan Williams' A Lark Ascending.
Compared with A Collision , Mr. Crowder says, Remedy is kind of like Crowder condensed. It really feels nice to me, he says.
It feels like the next natural step. And it's a much lighter listen than the last couple, because we were in a much bleaker place then. This is the other side of that lighter and more hopeful.
And I'm very excited about that. The tour dips into the entire DCB oeuvre, but we'll include as much of the latest CD as people can tolerate, Mr. Crowder says.
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