Description
Wire is the seventh studio album by the American rock band Third Day, released on Essential Records in May 2004, a division of Provident Label Group, a unit of BMG. Manufactured and distributed in the US by both Provident Music Distribution and BMG Distribution. The album was recorded by Skidd Mills at 747 Studios in Memphis, Tennessee; and as well by Don McCollister at Doppler Studios in Atlanta, Georgia; with Paul Ebersold producing. Mixed by Brendan O’Brien assisted by Karl Egsieker at Southern Tracks in Atlanta.
Third Day features Mac Powell on vocals and acoustic guitar, Brad Avery and Mark Lee on guitars, Tai Anderson on bass, and David Carr on drums. On the album producer Paul Ebersold provides additional acoustic guitar, piano, B3 organ, church organ, and mellotron, as well as string arrangements and programming.
In November 2004, a live version of Wire was released, called Live Wire featuring a DVD and CD of songs from their tour of their latest album
Down the years we followers of CCM have seen Third Day grow and grow. From those early years of Atlanta club obscurity to ‘Conspiracy No 5‘ – the finest Christian rock album of 1997, to the inspired acoustic-tinged ‘Time‘ of 1999, to the mega-selling purveyors of “contemporary worship” with those two ‘Offerings’ albums in 2000 and 2003. So what is there left for the band to achieve? Clearly, as their interview in last issue’s Cross Rhythms intimated, crossing over to a non-Christian market would be nice. Personally, I’m not sure if this “back to their roots” album will be the one to do that for them. Don’t get me wrong. Mac Powell is still one of the finest voices in pop rock, every bit the equal of a Michael Stapp and all those other gritty voiced stars of post-grunge rock. It’s just that bluesy Southern rock, even the classy stuff presented here, probably isn’t the thing to set the mainstream marketplace alive in 2004. So it will be the believers, many, many thousands of them, who’ll nudge this bombastic set towards platinum sales. Long time devotees won’t be disappointed. «Til The Day I Die» has one of their fiercest guitar riffs heard for years, undercut with some tasty acoustic drops, «Blind» with its blue collar swagger and its stunning violin solo from The Dave Matthews Band’s Boyd Tinsley is a delight, while the songs «You Are Mine» and «Innocent» have enough worship ethos for more staid listeners who bought the ‘Offerings’ albums but find some of the more raucous rock moments a little bewildering. Not everything works, for example «Rock Star» is a pretty banal song. But throughout Mac’s emotionally charged vocals and the sonically dazzling mix by Brendan O’Brien (Aerosmith, Limp Bizkit) keep you listening. and rocking. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, July 2004]
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CD tracklist:
01. ‘Til The Day I Die
02. Come On Back To Me
03. Wire
04. Rockstar
05. I Believe
06. It’s A Shame
07. Blind
08. I Got A Felling
09. You Are Mine
10. Innocent
11. Billy Brown
12. San Angelo
13. I Will Hold My Head High
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