The Dawn of Grace
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The Dawn of Grace is a Christmas album
by the alternative rock
/indie pop
band Sixpence None the Richer
. It was released on October 14, 2008. The Dawn of Grace was produced by Steve Hindalong
(City on a Hill
, The Choir) and is made up of 10 tracks: eight traditional Christmas songs, including “Angels We Have Heard On High
” and “Silent Night
,” featuring guest vocalist Dan Haseltine
of Jars of Clay
, and two original Sixpence Christmas tunes called “The Last Christmas” and “Christmas for Two.”
After spending four years apart, the band reunited for this album.
The subtitle on the cover says: A Collection of Original and Traditional Christmas Songs. Although no singles were released from the album, two animated music video were released for "Angels We Have Heard On High" and "Silent Night". The album reached #47 on the U.S. Christian Album Chart.
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by the alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
/indie pop
Indie pop
Indie pop is a genre of alternative rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid 1980s, with its roots in the Scottish post-punk bands on the Postcard Records label in the early '80s, such as Orange Juice, Josef K and Aztec Camera, and the dominant UK independent band of the mid...
band Sixpence None the Richer
Sixpence None the Richer
Sixpence None the Richer is an American rock/pop band that formed in New Braunfels, Texas, eventually settling in Nashville, Tennessee. They are best known for their songs "Kiss Me" and "Breathe Your Name" and their covers of "Don't Dream It's Over" and "There She Goes". The name of the band is...
. It was released on October 14, 2008. The Dawn of Grace was produced by Steve Hindalong
Steve Hindalong
Steve Hindalong is an American drummer, percussionist, songwriter and producer best known for his work with the alternative rock band The Choir...
(City on a Hill
City on a Hill
City on a Hill is an metaphor from the Salt and Light section of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew.It may also refer to:*City upon a Hill, a line from a famous sermon by Puritan John Winthrop frequently invoked in discussions of American exceptionalism.*City on a Hill , a series...
, The Choir) and is made up of 10 tracks: eight traditional Christmas songs, including “Angels We Have Heard On High
Angels We Have Heard on High
"Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol. The song commemorates the story of the birth of Jesus Christ found in the Gospel of Luke, in which shepherds outside Bethlehem encounter a multitude of angels singing and praising the newborn child....
” and “Silent Night
Silent Night
"Silent Night" is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song "Stille Nacht" were written in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, by the priest Father Joseph Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber...
,” featuring guest vocalist Dan Haseltine
Dan Haseltine
Daniel Paul "Dan" Haseltine is an American singer best known as lead vocalist for Christian alternative folk rock group Jars of Clay. Haseltine has performed vocals, piano, accordion, percussion and most recently, melodica, while with Jars of Clay...
of Jars of Clay
Jars of Clay
Jars of Clay is a Christian rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. They met at Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois.Jars of Clay consists of Dan Haseltine on vocals, Charlie Lowell on piano and keyboards, Stephen Mason on lead guitars and Matthew Odmark on rhythm guitars...
, and two original Sixpence Christmas tunes called “The Last Christmas” and “Christmas for Two.”
After spending four years apart, the band reunited for this album.
The subtitle on the cover says: A Collection of Original and Traditional Christmas Songs. Although no singles were released from the album, two animated music video were released for "Angels We Have Heard On High" and "Silent Night". The album reached #47 on the U.S. Christian Album Chart.
Track listing
- "Angels We Have Heard on HighAngels We Have Heard on High"Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol. The song commemorates the story of the birth of Jesus Christ found in the Gospel of Luke, in which shepherds outside Bethlehem encounter a multitude of angels singing and praising the newborn child....
" - 4:15 - "The Last Christmas" (Matt SlocumMatt SlocumMatt Slocum is a guitarist, cellist, pianist and composer, known for his work as the principal songwriter and lead guitarist of Sixpence None the Richer....
, Steve Hindalong) - 3:12 - "O Come, O Come, EmmanuelO come, O come, EmmanuelO come, O come, Emmanuel is a translation of the Latin text by John Mason Neale and Henry Sloane Coffin in the mid-19th century. It is a metrical version of a collation of various Advent Antiphons , which now serves as a popular Advent hymn...
" - 3:06 - "Silent NightSilent Night"Silent Night" is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song "Stille Nacht" were written in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, by the priest Father Joseph Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber...
" (featuring Dan HaseltineDan HaseltineDaniel Paul "Dan" Haseltine is an American singer best known as lead vocalist for Christian alternative folk rock group Jars of Clay. Haseltine has performed vocals, piano, accordion, percussion and most recently, melodica, while with Jars of Clay...
of Jars of ClayJars of ClayJars of Clay is a Christian rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. They met at Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois.Jars of Clay consists of Dan Haseltine on vocals, Charlie Lowell on piano and keyboards, Stephen Mason on lead guitars and Matthew Odmark on rhythm guitars...
) - 4:28 - "Riu Riu ChiuRíu Ríu ChíuRíu Ríu Chíu, also known as Ríu Chíu, is a Spanish villancico that has attained some contemporary fame as a Christmas carol.-Sources:The villancico is attributed by some sources to Mateo Flecha the Elder, who died in 1553; it has also been described as anonymous...
" - 3:06 - "Carol of the BellsCarol of the Bells"Carol of the Bells" is the common English language title of a Christmas carol of Ukrainian origin, which has in recent years grown in popularity, particularly in English-speaking countries. The work was originally a choral miniature composition by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych based on...
" - 2:24 - "Christmas Island" (Lyle MoraineLyle MoraineLyle Moraine is best known for writing "Christmas Island" , a song recorded by The Andrews Sisters, Leon Redbone, Jimmy Buffett, Bob Atcher, Bob Dylan, and Petty Booka among others. He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and died in Glendale, California....
)- 2:33 - "River" (Joni MitchellJoni MitchellJoni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...
)- 3:57 - "Christmas for Two" (Leigh Nash, Kate York) - 3:09
- "Some Children See Him" (Alfred BurtAlfred BurtAlfred Shaddick Burt was an American jazz musician who is best known for composing the music for fifteen Christmas carols between 1942 and 1954. Only one of the carols was performed in public outside his immediate family circle during his lifetime.-Early life:Burt was born in Marquette, Michigan...
)- 4:14