Album Commentary: David Crowder Band - Give Us Rest
This album sounds like:
The post-modern rock and rolling grandson of a protestant Flannery O’Connor character travels to Rome and falls madly, wildly, unfetteringly in love with the Roman Catholic Mass. He is enamored by the liturgy, the incense, the tall ceilinged Cathedrals, the history, and the embrace of the scientific method; is awakened to Natural Law, the Eucharistic feast, and dignity of all humanity. Returning home, he braces himself for a collision with what has now become wilted memories of the simple asceticism of Southern American fundamentalism. Yet, when he arrives, he finds a familiar happy home and deeply comforting truth in the simple songs of his domestic church. In 34 tracks.
You can pretty much follow along with the album here (starting with the Introitus.) That is, until the bluegrass starts. At that point you’ve crossed over and are pretty much on your own.
