Christmas Tour

I'm out on Andrew Peterson's "Behold the Lamb" Christmas Tour (for, I believe, the 7th year in a row.)  We are having a great time out here.

This is easily one of the more fun years of a generally fun tour, as well.  I think it's that we're all a little older and have spent more time with each other, but it's just so easy.  We just get along and encourage one another and it's precious and wonderful.

For those of you who haven't seen the show, it's broken into two halves.  In the first half the singer/songwriters (Andrew Peterson, Andy Gullahorn, Jill Phillips, Jason Gray, Ben Shive and myself) each do two songs.  Then after the intermission we play Andy P's Christmas record straight through, from start to finish.  It's a beautiful show, that highlights community as well as the story of Jesus.

I've been playing the song "Memory" each night.  It's the bonus track on the second printing of "Choosing Sides".  It was a total studio creation so I was worried it wouldn't work live, but it's been a fun challenge.

All right, it's showtime here in Montgomery, AL.  Thanks to everybody's who come out to the shows so far!!

Comments

[Peter Gaultney]

This post solves the mystery of why I had never heard the tune before, yet Matthew was all, "Yeah, it was awesome to hear him play that one live since I had always wondered what it was about!"

Hey, is that second photo a stock photo from Caedmon's Call's archives of the Derek days? He looks a little taller than I would have thought.

[Calvin]

I've been trying to get to the BTLoG tour for the past 4 years! I finally made it down to Montgomery. I must say I was blown away. I was expecting to hear the album played through with some chatter interspersed but when I learned that each of the singer/songwriters were going to sing two of their songs I was excited.

Thanks for bringing the Rabbit Room so close.

[Josh H]

Memory really is an amazing song. I agree. Looking forward to hearing it tomorrow night at the Ryman!

[Jason]

Missed BTLoG in Milford this year. It is truly a one of a kind experience. I have seen Andy solo once, with Caedmon's twice and on the BTLoG twice. The BTLoG group just seems to mesh so well. You can feel the community.