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I don't mean to keep bringing up the subject of Caedmon's Call, but I ran across this great interview with band members Cliff Young and Andrew Osenga. The point in bringing it up again is that they touch on something that I brought out in my record review.

Osenga: Caedmon's was always about being single and being in college. But then people got married, got real jobs, got kids, and all of a sudden the perspective changed.

Young: There are people who have told us, "I haven't heard you guys in five years and this new record has hit me right where I am." One of my favorite negative things people say is, "This is not same old Caedmon's. Whatever happened to staying up until three in the morning and talking about being single?" And I'm like, "We're all married!"

Osenga: Thank goodness we don't talk about the same things

And, just to make me feel oh so proud of this rag tag band of bohemian artists (okay, my brother accuses them of being tree huggers), they had the following to say about the cheese of mainstream Christian radio.

Young: The previous label definitely tried to make us that. Just because someone can put a sermon to music, does that make them a songwriter? Does it make them an artist? Andy is a songwriter—he's one of the best at it. He sees things from a different perspective. He looks at things differently. He questions things. That's kind of the way art is. I think the positive-hits-for-soccer-moms crowd, lyrically, aren't really artists. They're buying songs from people who are just finding another way of writing "Jesus rules" and "God is good" on paper.

Osenga: We don't really listen to Christian radio. We're all believers, but I don't know whether it's the things we've seen or the songs we've heard, but we don't want to do this band if it's just going to be like any other band. We're going to do this band because we love each other and we believe in what this band can say. We're really thrilled to have a chance to do this.

Doesn't it make you happy to have a breath of fresh air?