From reading the comments, some of you seem interested in discussing the new album, the future of the band, etc. We would invite you to register for our Rumor Forum, which has a dedicated Caedmon’s Call Board. Membership is free for the first 100 posts.
Caedmon’s Call fans:
The band has heard your frustrations with the Raising Up the Dead pre-order, and Derek has addressed many of them. The salient point:
now in terms of the limiting of the immediate download to the top two pre-order tiers, this was not an easily made decision. there was some disagreement at INO as to whether we should immediately deliver the record during the pre-order seeing as though the record would only ever be a digital release (otherwise, it isn’t really a “pre-order” so much as an actual “release”). the compromise was made to allow for some tiers to include an immediate download and to have the others digitally deliver the record on release day.
but since the focus with this record has been and remains on the fans, we have heard your disappointment and have decided to change the pre-order options. as of this posting, ALL PRE-ORDER TIERS WILL INCLUDE AN IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD.
what does this mean if you’e already pre-ordered? if you have already pre-purchased a tier that didn’t include immediate delivery, you will receive a download code via email within a day or so to get your immediate download as well. and if you pre-purchased one of the top tiers and want to reconsider which one to buy in light of this change, simply send an email to support@discrevolt.com and they will take care of you.
This will not answer everyone’s concerns, of course. Nothing is ever enough, after all. But we do believe that this will address the key concerns that many of you had.
The pre-sale page will be up by evening. So get back to work and quit asking Geof when it will be online. ;) We will post an update to this post when it’s out, and we’ll also tweet when it’s up— we’re @ccnet.
Update, 1650CT: So, here’s the 411: you’ll be able to get an instant download, plus some extras. There will be an exclusive physical version of the disc, for you collector types. [1000 printed.] Oh, and … something about Guild 1 was mentioned, but then our call was dropped. [THANKS A LOT, Steve Jobs.]
Update, 2220CT: It is now up.
- Tier 1: Digital album.
- Tier 2: Digital album + T-shirt.
- Tier 3: Digital album + T-shirt + digital copies of Guild content from over the years, including Guild 1 MP3s.
- Tier 4: Digital album + T-shirt + Guild content + physical CD.
Let’s clear things up: there will only be 1000 physical copies printed. That’s why the top tier is where that is. You want the physical CD, with all the bells and whistles that the band will put in it, you pay the highest price. Don’t eschew that expecting that there will be a bookstore release of this record.
Our inside sources have indicated to us that there will be a few one-off tour dates for Raising Up the Dead, but no tour is planned as of yet. There will be release shows in Houston and Austin that will be announced at a later date.
Would you travel to Texas for a Caedmon’s Call release show? Let us know in the comments. Maybe we’ll work up getting a group rate on hotel rooms or something and panty raid Bryan’s room.
Did you miss us? Our comments on the last post indicate that you did.
If you missed the emails from the band, Caedmon’s Call is releasing a new album later this year, titled Raising Up the Dead. We’re not sure what Cliff will call this one when you ask: “the brown one” or “the mustard yellow one”? Time will tell, we guess.
As we indicated back last August, this is a slightly smaller Caedmon’s Call than the previous iteration. Andy O publicly stated back then that he wouldn’t be a part of it, and while we here at [caedmonscall.net] will miss him, it’s not like he’s not making music anymore. Same with Josh Moore. But our reports were a bit off with regards to the bass support: rumors of Jeff Miller’s musical demise are greatly exaggerated. Our favorite bassist/programmer even wrote a song for Raising Up the Dead. We know this because Derek told us so, although we think he said that on the Twitters, too, so that’s probably not much of a scoop anymore. 
We can tell you that we really like it. If you’re wanting to hear it, you can get two of the songs up on NoiseTrade: “Sometimes a Beggar” [the aforementioned Miller-penned tune] and “She”. We would argue that these are pretty representative of the sound of the album, so if you’ve been wondering what a 2010-era Caedmon’s Call record would sound like, well, get to listening.
Pre-sales for Raising Up the Dead start on August 2. We would like to thank the band for honoring the anniversary of our rumor about the band recording together again with the pre-sale date. They love us like that.
So I was nerding out this weekend with metadata about Caedmon’s Call, specifically when Randy was in the band, and because helping Bryan run this place for a few years has gotten me contacts, I just said, “Forget it … I’ll just email Randy.” So I did. For the record, here’s what he wrote about being in the band:
Before the band, Cliff, Danielle and I played a church service together on Wednesday nights. Cliff and Danielle were in high school. Danielle was only 14 years old. We were playing together the night the US started bombing Iraq the first time – 1991. Shortly after, Cliff, Danielle and Carrie Harris, performed a song in church one Sunday morning. I went up to Cliff afterward and told him that I would love to play with them sometime. That was around 1992-93. I was around when the band did their for the first cassette release, but I only played a small Melodica part as a joke.
After Carrie left the group, they started recording My Calm//Your Storm. Cliff asked me to play Hammond on the title track and I ended up playing on a few other tracks. I started playing shows with them as a hired player. I was older, married and had a job so I was only able to travel on weekends. As the band became more popular, they were playing more frequent. I took time off of work to go to Atlanta to record Caedmon’s Call and in early 1997, I got fired from my job for missing too much work.
The band was about to start a tour and Cliff told me to join them. I was “official” at this point. I continued to play through the first half of the “40 Acres” tour and left around the end of May 1999. Hope that helps.
Anyway, that’s pretty rock and roll for a folk band. And anyway, knowing that there’s this mysterious new record coming out next year, I asked, “Are you playing on the next record?” His response:
Yes I am.
-Randy
Color me giddy.
Remember the good old days when this site was a rumor mill? Yeah, we do, too.
So here’s a rumor you might be interested in: five intrepid musicians have been spotted at a ranch in Texas: Cliff and Danielle Young, Derek Webb, Todd Bragg, and Garett Buell. They were seen unloading foodstuffs and a kick drum. Could there be another record left in Caedmon’s Call? The world may never know.
We like this Caedmon’s Bandit fellow. Don’t know about you. First we got “Famous Last Words”, including some BGVs from Garett [who knew?!], and today, another clip from that same show, since y’all like that so much …
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By the way, you have another track from this if you own all of CC’s CDs. ;)
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The Caedmon’s Bandit strikes again! This goes back to January 1996.
