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Jars of Clay ' s funky third record, If I Left the Zoo , was produced by Dennis Herring , which took the band in a different direction than their previous two records. Herring had also produced This Desert Life by Counting Crows the same year as If I Left the Zoo, which influenced the direction of Jars of Clay's 1999 record. In the new millennium, Herring produced some of the biggest records for Modest Mouse , The Hives , Ben Folds , and Mutemath .  YOU'RE ALL I'M LIVING FOR. Jars of Clay, however, wanted to return to their acoustic roots on their fourth album,  The Eleventh Hour . The band had tried to work with Herring again, but the producer was unable to schedule sessions with the band. Thus Jars of Clay again self-produced their record like they did for their eponymous record. The lead single from The Eleventh Hour , " I Need You ," was written during recording sessions for If I Left the Zoo, but fit better on the band's fourth record. The song see

Following up  E-MO-TION nearly four years later,  Dedicated sees Carly Rae Jepsen evolving as a singer and artist. The tracks on Dedicated are meant for dancing, perhaps even more than the singers two previous blockbuster albums, E-MO-TION and Kiss .  Maturing into often more sexual lyrics, Jepsen sings about adult topics in a mature way on  Dedicated. The album spawn five singles, including today's song " Too Much ," which Jepsen wrote about a girl at a party whose boyfriend criticized her for getting into dancing "too much."Jespsen writes "Too Much" as almost an anthem of pride, disclosing before she takes on a new boyfriend that she has an excessive streak and that if he should enter a relationship with her, he should know that. A FIRE IN RAINY SEASON. With Jepsen's song about full disclosure, "Too Much" leads the beginning of our Pride Playlist 2022, a playlist of 30 songs celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride month. The songs on this playlist

When you’re the lead singer to one of the biggest Christian Rock acts of all time and you want to start a new, completely different musical project, what do you do? In 2009 Dan Haseltine came up with a new electronic pop concept. Unlike the beginning of their career, Haseltine’s other band Jars of Clay was becoming more and more boxed into the Contemporary Christian scene. The band played churches and had  a guaranteed income from fans. However, when Haseltine gathered together two of his friends, Nashville CCM/ Country producer and multi-instrumentalist Jeremey Bose and former Jars of Clay guitarist Matt Bronleewe forming the group The Hawk in Paris , Haseltine was free to go in whatever lyrical direction he wanted to.  IF YOU LEAVE ME NOW, YOU’LL LEAVE ME BETTER THAN I WAS BEFORE. Taking their name from a 1957 album by saxophonist Coleman Hawkins , The Hawk in Paris is Dan Haseltine’s experimentation with pop music. According to Halestine when he talked with Frank Jenks on the

Before their massively successful 1995 studio debut, Jars of Clay released a self-produced demo titled Frail , which included several songs that made it to their eponymous release . Two songs, though, were reworked and found their way onto their less commercially successful sophomore release, Much Afraid . Departing from their acoustic folk-rock sound, Much Afraid  sounds like a 1997 album. It spawned two singles, " Crazy Times ," peaking at #38 on the Modern Rock singles, and " Five Candles " (You Were There), originally written for Jim Carrey 's Liar Liar , but eventually used in Michael Keaton 's Jack Frost.    Much Afraid is a fine Jars of Clay album. It's more fun to listen to than their debut, varying between folk-rock and modern rock. However, it failed to propel Jars of Clay into the 1997 rock scene. Listeners may not remember them amongst their contemporaries, like The Goo Goo Dolls , Third Eye Blind , and Matchbox Twenty . Instead, they are a