Offerings: A Worship Album

Performer: Third Day
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Third Day: Mac Powell (vocals, acoustic guitar); Mark Lee, David Carr (electric guitar); Tai Anderson (bass); Brad Avery (drums). Additional personnel includes: George Cocchini (acoustic guitar); Scotty Wilbanks (penny whistle, pump organ, keyboards); Geof Barkley (keyboards, background vocals); Monroe Jones (keyboards); Tabitha Fair (background vocals). Producers: Monroe Jones, Third Day, Joey Canaday. Engineers include: Andrew Stone, Jim Dineen, Ryan Williams. OFFERINGS was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album. Some Christian rock bands have a spiritual base to their music, but they bury it amid the trappings of contemporary pop to such an extent that the message is lost. Third Day manages to keep its Christian-centered themes at the forefront without sacrificing any of its rock credibility. A good example is the opening "King of Glory," which sings the praises of "the prince of Peace" in no uncertain terms, but whose gently insistent rhythms and jangly guitars would sound perfectly at home on the DAWSON'S CREEK soundtrack. "Your Love Oh Lord" expands the group's earthy, guitar-rock aesthetic by adding some syncopated, programmed-sounding rhythms. "Saved" is a frenetic, piano-driven tune whose collision of gospel and rock suggests a less mannered Black Crowes. Throughout this album, Third Day makes it plain that it intends to stay true to both sides of the duality implied in the term "Christian Rock."

Third Day is one of CCM's biggest crossover acts, known as much for their tuneful alt-rock craft as for their earnest faith. Formed in the mid-1990s in Georgia, Third Day started out like most indie bands, gigging relentlessly and releasing low-budget home recordings. In 1996, they signed a multi-album deal with Reunion Records, the premier Christian label, which ensured radio play and audience exposure on a much bigger scale. Tours and collaborations with acts like Newsboys and Michael W. Smith followed, helping to raise their profile even more, and by the '00s, the band were genuine CCM stars, in an offshoot genre--Alternative CCM--that they helped to create.

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