If you can't wait for the September 4th release date for "brick and mortar" music sellers, the Essential Records version of Live Monsters is now available on iTunes. Those who have been paying attention noticed that there is a slightly different tracklisting than the version available directly from the band. The new tracklisting is as follows (click for a sample mp3):

Work
Dead Man (Carry Me)
There is a River
Good Monsters
Oh My God
Surprise
Light Gives Heat

Labels: Other Projects

Hey folks! It's late, but where I'm from it's still Monday.

To keep things moving along (especially when news is slow), Monday will now and forever be "Media Monday!" Hopefully it will cheer you up and get you through the week.

This week's bit of media is a show from 2004. Feel free to share these mp3's with whomever you'd like. Remember, though - you should never sell a live recording, nor should you ever pay for one (unless it is officially released by the band, of course). The band is nice enough to let fans share recordings like these - please don't ruin it for everybody by doing something dishonest.

Jars Of Clay - George, WA
Creation West Festival - Gorge Amphitheatre
07/21/2004

(Edit: The links are now fixed...sorry!)

Band Introductions
Trouble Is
Sunny Days
Love Song For A Savior
I Need You
Amazing Grace
Lesser Things
Jealous Kind
Fly
I'm Alright
Disappear
Flood
Revolution
Frail
Show You Love

Special thanks to Danny from the Jarchives board for making this one possible!

PS - Make sure you snatch the Media Monday content as soon as it goes live. If bandwidth ever becomes an issue, we may have to remove some content from the archives!

Labels: Media Monday

Tonight's show in California has been cancelled due to Dan's illness. Please keep Dan and his family in your prayers.

Here's a quick recap of the Air1 interview this morning:

- Steve, Charlie, and Matt were interviewed. Dan was on vocal rest due to an illness.
- The title of Dan's children's book is Magnificent Me, and it will be released in September to major bookstores (thanks to Jarchive's own Lizzy "inajar" for asking!).
- There is a Blood:Water tie-in with the searchwithjars website, so keep searching!
- Ladies, Gabe Ruschival is single.
- The band discussed the studio atmosphere for recording Christmas Songs.
- The full recording of the new song Peace is Here was aired
- The band played impromptu sing-along versions of Flood, Love Song For A Savior, and Dead Man with Charlie on piano and Steve on "mouth trumpet." The DJ's did their best to provide lead vocals.
- Steve and Charlie shared a few thoughts on Lindsay Lohan, and how every human can identify on some level with Lohan's plight. Charlie commented on the popular tendency intead to ostracize and judge Lohan as a means of self-reassurement (i.e. "Thank God I'm not Lindsay Lohan this week!"). Steve reminded listeners that there is no "sliding scale" when it comes to the Gospel, and "we all have the same need."
- The band discussed Blood:Water Mission's "two rescues:" for those in need from a lack of rescources, and for Americans from trivia in the light of what really matters.
- The band likes iPhones, but they think they're too expensive
- When asked about whether Harry Potter was acceptable reading, the band shared how they believe the truth of the Gospel can be reflected in all kinds of art, Christian or not. They stressed parents' responsiblility to develop "tools of discernment" in a child for when they are presented with something contrary to their beliefs.
- The band asked for prayers for Dan, who has an ear, nose, and throat infection.
- The band reiterated that $1 provides clean water for one African for a year.

Labels: Blood:Water, Christmas Album, Interviews

Word has it that Jars of Clay will be the guest on Air1 from 10 AM - 12 PM EST tomorrow (Friday).

Listen here.

Labels: Rumors

Wikipedia has a tentative tracklisting and cover art for The Essential Jars of Clay, set to be released September 4th along with Live Monsters:

Disc One
1. Flood
2. Liquid
3. Worlds Apart
4. Love Song For A Savior
5. Tea And Sympathy
6. Fade To Grey
7. Crazy Times
8. Five Candles (You Were There)
9. Goodbye, Goodnight
10. Grace
11. Can't Erase It
12. Unforgetful You
13. I Need You
14. Fly
15. Silence
16. Revolution
17. The Coffee Song
18. The New Math

Disc Two
1. Tonight
2. Shipwrecked
3. Faith Enough
4. Jealous Kind
5. Sunny Days
6. Needful Hands
7. Dig
8. God Will Lift Up Your Head
9. Work
10. Oh My God
11. Dead Man (Carry Me)
12. Mirrors & Smoke
13. This Road
14. The Widowing Field
15. Bethlehem Town
16. Little Drummer Boy

Dan Haseltine has stated at the Jarchives forum that the band has been talking about an "official" best-of for 2008, which "will most likely have two or three new songs."

Labels: Other Projects, Rumors

According to musictap.net, Jars of Clay will join the fold of artists with best-of compilations when they release a 2-disc set this fall:

"Essential Records and Legacy will release a 2CD The Essential Jars of Clay on September 4 for Christian Contemporary crossovers, Jars of Clay. This career retrospective will feature all of their hits, some album cuts and fan favourites, as well as some rarities. Included songs will be “Flood,” “Widowing Field,” and “Little Drummer Boy.”"

The Widowing Field, eh? Sounds like it could shape up to be an interesting tracklist.

Thanks to zepjoc at Jarchives for the heads up.

Labels: Other Projects, Press Releases

A new blog entry on Hope for Lwala is available at the official blog...

Labels: Other Projects

A tracklisting for the Christmas Songs record has been leaked to wikipedia. We are unsure if this is legitimate, but Dan Haseltine has confirmed that there will be 14 tracks...

1. The Gift of St. Cecilia
2. Wonderful Christmastime
3. Love Came Down At Christmas
4. O, Little Town Of Bethlehem
5. Hibernation Day
6. Winter Skin
7. Peace Is Here
8. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
9. Evergreen
10. Christmastime Is Here
11. Drummer Boy
12. Gabriel's Message
13. In The Bleak Midwinter
14. I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day

In the spirit of the upcoming Christmas album, please download and enjoy this live version of O Little Town of Bethlehem from an acoustic Christmas concert in 2000.

Labels: Christmas Album

Today, Jars of Clay begin work on a soundtrack for the documentary "Hope for Lwala."

Read more here and here.

Labels: Other Projects

Several famous artists are going to play for free in the California Mid-State Fair (Paso Robles, CA) at "The Budweiser Fort Frontier stage" which offers 3,500 seats. Among the artists (Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Elvin Bishop, Chubby Checker & the Wildcats), Jars of Clay is scheduled to perform on July 29th. Each act will play two shows a day, at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.

For more information about California Mid-State Fair summertime shows and all artists performing there, click here.

Labels: Articles, Tour

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Labels: Blood:Water

Jars of Clay officially launched their video podcast today with a promo video for Christmas Songs:



The official release date is October 16th.

Labels: Christmas Album

For villagers, it would mean never again having to walk miles in the dark to find help for the sick.
But the clinic, off to such a good start, never opened. Ochieng, caught up in the middle of medical school, ran out of time and money.
That's how his story ended in 2006, but it turns out, it was just beginning.
First came help from the rock band Jars of Clay and its nonprofit organization BloodWater Mission...

For the full article, click here.

A follow-up feature is available here.

Labels: Blood:Water

The cover art for Peace Is Here: Christmas Reflections has been released at the Nettwerk website. Other promotional photos for the new album are available as well.

Much thanks to ctaylor at the Jarchives board for giving us the heads up!

Labels: Christmas Album

"Recently finished with recording a Christmas album, Jars of Clay is at work on a score for a documentary that features two brothers who start a clinic in Africa.

'It's an amazing story of what rarely happens in Africa,' said Haseltine, the activist in him taking over. 'When people leave there to get an education and go back. Most times they get it and leave.'"

Read the full article here.

Labels: Articles, Christmas Album

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Labels: Updates