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Surprise! A New Record
September 20, 2011
Friends,
I’m pleased to announce the release of a new album: Above These City Lights (Live). (Get it here.) We recorded it last fall on the Counting Stars release tour, and then things got busy. Not only did we immediately hit the road for the Christmas tour, I spent all Spring writing The Monster in the Hollows. Meanwhile, the indubitable Todd Robbins (who mixed Resurrection Letters II and engineered Counting Stars—not to mention DC Talk’s Jesus Freak, but who’s counting?) took all the files from the live show and made them sound even purtier. The project was originally intended to be an EP that highlighted a few of the songs from Counting Stars but when we heard how “High Noon”, “After the Last Tear Falls”, and especially the Rich Mullins masterpiece “Calling Out Your Name” turned out, we decided to make it more of a full-length record. At long last, the album is ready for your ears.
One of my favorite things about this album is the cover. My son Aedan is an unabashed Bird Nerd. He loves ornithology. He also loves painting and illustration. The starling on the cover is one of his excellent paintings—that it made the cover is all the more delightful because he’s only twelve years old. I paid him $25 for it. (Don’t tell him that that’s way lower than the going rate. I don’t want him to get too big for his britches.) He and his pal Cooper have an art blog called The Crimson Phoenix, and they’ve been displaying their drawings there for a long time. By all means, drop in and drop them a line of encouragement. I’m so proud to see how hard they’re working at their craft.
It goes without saying that Ben Shive and Andy Gullahorn are amazing. I’m reminded of that all over again when I listen to their tasteful, skillful performances on this record. As much as I love studio work, and as much as I love songwriting, my real pleasure is the exchange between you and I at a live concert. The connection is the thing. I hope you can hear the gratitude we felt as we played these songs, and I hope that somehow, thanks to the wonder of all the ones and zeroes that make up an MP3 file, they’ll connect with you, too.
Thanks also to Centricity Music for putting this whole thing together. I’m so grateful for them. And not just because they make short films that exploit my vast nerdiness.
I hope you enjoy the music.
AP
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Back in the Studio and On Tour
February 2, 2012Andrew's hitting the road this spring, once again with Steven Curtis Chapman and Josh Wilson on the Songs and Stories tour. Last year's tour was such a success that a second 20 show tour was added and is underway. During his days off, Andrew, along with Ben Shive, Andy Gullahorn, and Cason Cooley, will be in the studio working on a new album, which will release on August 21.
Behold the Lamb of God: An Advent Narrative
November 3, 2011
“Russ Ramsey tells a story you’ve heard a hundred times and still haven’t heard enough. With remarkable attention to the facts of the matter—the water dripping from John the Baptist’s beard, the heft of Abraham’s knife, the groans of a girl giving birth on a stable floor—Ramsey brings to life the story that brings us to life. Here is glory made visible, tangible, audible. Which is to say, here is the Incarnation.”—Jonathan Rogers, author of The Wilderking Trilogy, The Charlatan’s Boy, and The Terrible Speed of Mercy
We're proud to announce the upcoming release of Behold the Lamb of God: An Advent Narrative by Russ Ramsey. Russ has been an integral part of Andrew's Rabbit Room community for years, and his book is a welcome companion to the album. Following the old, old story from the first days of creation to the Incarnation of the creator himself, Russ tells the true tall tale with the sweeping granduer of a poet and the scriptural insight of a pastor. Available November 22nd from Rabbit Room Press with a foreword by Andrew Peterson. Pre-orders are now available through the Rabbit Room Store.