1995
We were leading worship at a retreat for Youth Pastors in Post Falls, Idaho in the summer of 1993, and at one of the sessions we performed our song "At the Water's Edge". This song was on the "Too Familiar Nail" CD as a sparse voice and guitar arrangement. At the end of the night Jerry Dahlberg, who was one of the youth pastors in attendance, came up to us and said, "I am going to make a video out of that song!" That was the beginning of a year-and-a-half experience resulting in the song being used for a missions video for a national youth missions-mobilization program called "Speed the Light."
For the sake of the video, Jerry (the executive producer of the project) brought an engineer named Gil Morales up from L.A. to record and mix the new arrangement, which came with a full rock band and virtual orchestra. The end product was so dramatic and the new arrangement of the song was so compelling, we thought that our people would want to hear it. So we went to Lance Gibbon's home studio to record five other songs that we'd been performing in Seattle coffee houses and released a short cassette tape that had the new mix of "At the Water's Edge" together with these five new songs.
The songs range from the deeply ethereal "Youth is Innocence is Bliss" and the groovy "Like a Bush that Burned", to the folky angst of "In that Place" and the social commentary ballad "Thomas the Younger." We're proud of all of these songs and so enjoyed the experience of seeing a dramatic apocalyptic song like "At the Water's Edge" take on a life of its own as the video Jerry made was seen by literally thousands of people all over the world.
