AUGUST 4, 2006

David Crowder Goes to 'Heaven'

The following info is courtesy of Hoganson Media Relations

“Death does not win,” David Crowder writes. “It is only the beginning.” In his second and highly personal book, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, But Nobody Wants to Die: Or (The Eschatology of Bluegrass) the groundbreaking musician explores the relationship between death, life, grief and community—a quest that was compounded by the sudden, accidental death of his friend and pastor, Kyle Lake.

Co-written by band-mate Mike Hogan and following Crowder’s critically acclaimed first book, Praise Habit, the book is a journey of embracing the importance of living fully, grieving deeply, all while focusing on the future hopes of God’s promises. Along the way, readers might also learn a thing or two about bluegrass.

“We have chosen bluegrass music as a means to discuss our grief and the resulting hope that is born out of it,” writes Crowder. “This book is a study of grief. It is a book about the pain that absence can bring. It is about the sharpness of memory that eventually dulls into something we both fear and pray for. It is a book about dying. The kind of corporeal dying that everyone of us will one day experience and the kind of dying that must happen at some point before that moment of mortal death for true living to begin. Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.”

Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, But Nobody Wants to Die follows the June 27 release of B Collision: The Eschatology of Bluegrass, which is an intimate, acoustic version of its parent recording, Crowder’s 2005 CD, A Collision. A Collision has been widely regarded as one of the best albums of 2005, receiving five-star reviews and comparisons to groundbreaking albums of the past and artists such as The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Hank Williams.

Capturing the attention of such significant media as the New York Times, CNN, FOX News and more, David Crowder Band is known for pushing musical boundaries. The band was the first Christian artist to foster a partnership with M-Audio/Propellerhead’s Reason software and Crowder is the namesake behind premiere guitar maker Tom Anderson Guitarworks’s Crowdster Acoustic and the DCB-inspired guitar, The Atom. An engaging headline band, Crowder has also toured with Michael W. Smith, MercyMe and Third Day, as well as continues to be a featured band at the enormously popular collegiate Passion gatherings. Additionally, David Crowder Band makes it a point to get back to the church they helped found, University Baptist Church in Waco, TX, on most Sundays.

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