The Waiting

The Waiting is among Christian music’s best rock rings: musically accomplished (Todd Olsen’s guitar and Brad Olsen’s increasingly commanding voice stick out), lyrically sharp, fully in a position to match a fascinating thematic idea to terrific hard pop/rock. The Olsen brothers, created in NY, relocated to Atlanta within their early years, ultimately attending university there. Their dad convinced these to record their 1st demos, which ultimately converted into 1991’s Tillbury City. Having fulfilled Clark Leake (bass) and Brandon Thomspon (drums), the group quickly improved and had been ultimately authorized to R.E.X. for 1995’s Blue Stomach Sky, a masterpiece of rock and roll and worship music. Singles like “Mercy Chair” do well on Religious radio, drawing the eye of Sparrow, who agreed upon them because of their third record, The Waiting around (1997). The record spawned three number 1 Christian radio singles, Grammy and Dove nominations (including one for the extraordinary “Hands in the Surroundings”), and Sparrow re-released Blue Tummy Sky with extra tracks to fill up the difference between item. The group, having performed some critical woodshedding, culled Unfazed (1998) from as much as 40 songs created with outside authors; the sonically wealthy Compact disc spent six weeks at number 1 in the Christian graphs, and an individual (“Speak”) premiered to regular rock and roll radio to small impact. Still, the Compact disc garnered great testimonials also in Billboard newspaper, as well as the group acquired grown into among the sharpest, tightest systems around.