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In the mid-nineties, it seemed to many of us that Luxury might be the band most likely to find real success in the wider alternative rock market. Their three-decade journey, however, has defied all expectations. From their early days of alt-punk abandon through a harrowing and deadly car crash and onto a very different path that found three of the members embracing Eastern Orthodoxy and eventually becoming priests, this is a story like none you have ever heard. Through all of the struggle and pain, Fathers Lee and Jamey Bozeman, (vocalist and guitarist,) Matt Hinton (auxiliary guitars,) Father Chris Foley (bass,) and Glenn Black (drums) have emerged as one of the most interesting and engaging alt-rock bands around. Their latest album, Like Unto Lambs came together over a span of five years and may be their best yet.

While there has been no shortage of discussions and arguments over the old debate about Christians making music, versus making Christian music, the concept of priests making mainstream alternative rock presents a unique opportunity to reconsider the question about the spiritual and vocational nature of arts and artistry. How might being in a band have informed these pastors’ work in the ministry? Might their work as priests inform their work as musicians? Is there a holy way to rock that doesn’t involve “Christian Rock?” Join us as we talk with three priests and a sacred Appalachian music historian about their rock band, their brotherhood, their trauma, and a priestly perspective on art.

 

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SONG LIST:

Golf Slang –

La Coste

No Portrait

Ghosts

Luxury –

Maker / Wheel Within A Wheel

To You Who Gave Me Hope and Were My Light

Pink Revenge

Flaming Youth Flames On

Vanity

Red Mascara

Euphrates With the Golden Hands

I Have Been Everywhere The Grass Is Green, I Have Seen All There Is To See

He Watches Over Thee

The Necklace / Make A Gesture, Start A Fight

Parallel Loves (One Sided LP version)

Fur / Ticker Tape

Words of Mouth

All Amusement / So Close To Tears

The Wilderness / The Color of Gold

The Gates of Paradise

The Rainbow / A Second Act

How To Act In The World / Eat Your Heart Out

Rock Star

The Glory

Trophies

The Needs Of The Many, The Needs Of The Few

One of Those Things

The Pearls

Our Hearts Are Broken

A Great Cloud of Witnesses –

Frau Troffea

So, I Set Myself A Problem

Glossa Ordinaria

The Shroud –

Touch (Tinsel version)

How Strange

Piltdown Man –

Carry On

They Sang As They Slew – I Can See With My Eyes Closed