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.

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.

By the way, you have another track from this if you own all of CC’s CDs. ;)

“I Will Sing” and “Hope to Carry On” from the second CC show.

“Not Enough” from the third CC show.

“Clean Am I” from Jan 1993.

And … figure out which Caedmon’s Call member is in this photo, and which one he is:

PS – If you discover who I am, you must not tell. If you do, the videos will stop and I have more… oh, so much more.

I will not be guessing. :)

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.

Since the band is doing just a few select shows this fall, it has worked out best for Josh to do other things.

This isn’t anything new, really; I saw Randy play a show with the band in 2006. And we know that Josh has been busy … with what, we’re not at liberty to say. ;)

Rest assured, the only person at risk of being thrown out of the band is Bryan for forgetting cc.net as one of his tribes. What, you didn’t think he was in the band? He totally is.

[Posted band news: check. Made fun of Bryan: check.]

Update, 27 Sep: Josh Stockment reports that Mandy is indeed filling in for Danielle, and Randy Holsapple is filling in for Josh. And as we didn’t say, but most of you probably knew, Derek is off supporting the Art * Music * Justice tour right now.

Well, it’s actually not Guitar Hero, it’s “Guitar Praise: Solid Rock” (of course it is).

Among the many great Christian tunes you can rock out to is “There You Go” by a little band called Caedmon’s Call.

It can be your for $99.99. (available next month).