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:
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 …
By the way, you have another track from this if you own all of CC’s CDs. ;)
Hey everyone, Bryan here. Back in April of 2004 I had the pleasure of traveling to Ecuador with Caedmon’s Call on a Compassion International sponsored trip. The band was in the process of making the Share The Well CD, and as a result of that trip, songs like “VolcanoLand”, “Did Not Catch Her Name”, and “Roses” were crafted.
I kept an abbreviated journal with me during the trip, and I just recently put the entries up on my blog. If you’d like a peek into what its like to travel overseas with the band, or just want to see some of the pictures from the trip, click on over and check it out.
If you haven’t kept track, Derek has been doing the NoiseTrade thing. It’s pretty awesome, and we think you should check it out. [And the only reason that Andy didn't choose NoiseTrade to distribute the Letters to the Editor EP was because I was willing to do it for free. ;) ]
Cliff and Danielle have been without power since Hurricane Ike, so they weren’t able to play this weekend’s show in Ohio. We’d love to thank Kevin and Mandy Mann for filling in to keep it from totally being Andrew’s Call.
We’re all hoping that the Youngs will make this upcoming weekend’s shows. We’ll advise when we know.
