Caedmon’s Call

CCM music group Caedmon’s Contact fuse folk-rock with adult alternative rock and roll influences. Cliff Little (vocals, rhythm electric guitar), Derek Webb (business lead electric guitar, vocals), Danielle Glenn (vocals), Aric Nitzberg (bass), Todd Bragg (drums), Randy Holsapple (body organ), and Garett Buell (percussion) shaped the Houston, Texas-based music group at Tx Christian College or university in the summertime of 1992. The group originally included Aaron Tate, who still left the music group soon after its formation, but he continuing to write tracks with Youthful. After spending time playing locally, Caedmon’s Contact began touring university campuses over the South, gradually building up an ardent following of youthful Gen-X singles. Caedmon’s Contact self-released their initial record in June of 1994. In August of 1995, they released their second record. Both separately released albums marketed over 10,000 copies apiece, and had been distributed in Canada as well as the U.K. aswell as America. Both albums, plus their concert events, led Musician mag to contact Caedmon’s Call one of the better unsigned bands in the us. Such grassroots achievement attracted the interest of Warner Bros., which agreed upon Caedmon’s Contact 1996 and released their major-label debut, the Don McCollister-produced Caedmon’s Contact, in the springtime of 1997. Long Type of Leavers was released three years afterwards, and despite an excellent reaction off their group of fans, it signaled towards the bandmembers that they preferred even more control over their sound. Another year, Together with Angels: A Contact to Worship was documented by the music group, and its achievement in the Christian marketplace resulted in their highest product sales however. When the record was nominated for many Dove Honours, Caedmon’s Call made a decision to continue to make their own materials and recorded BACK in 2002. The next spring BACK premiered — and founding member Derek Webb departed the group to go after a solo profession — as well as the music group hit the street with Jars of Clay to market the recording. In 2004 the anthology Chronicles 1992-2004 showed up, and a new assortment of tunes called Talk about the Well. Together with Angels II: The Globe Will Sing was released in March of 2006. The group’s 8th and ninth studio room albums, Overdressed (2007) and Bringing up Up the Deceased (2010), discovered Caedmon’s Contact collaborating with previous bandmember Webb.