Considering Boundaries w Kevin Max & Mark Heard’s “Dry Bones Dance”
Kevin Max has been kicking against boundaries for over thirty years, first as one-third of a platinum-selling pop-rap group, (DC Talk,) and then as a poet and genre testing indie artist. Now he’s leaving his solo career behind to launch a new band, Sad Astronauts, right after releasing an acclaimed tribute to Larry Norman’s celebrated Only Visiting This Planet album. What might we be able to glean from an artist like Kevin when it comes to pushing into new territory, redefining success, and becoming more mindful of the boundaries we work within – or allow to define us?
And on the jukebox we crank up the legendary Mark Heard’s tentpole album, Dry Bones Dance, as we anticipate Lo-Fidelity Records’ upcoming super deluxe reissue, by talking with two of the artists who worked with Heard on that album, vocalist Kate Miner and bassist and Chapman Stick maestro, Fergus Marsh. We are also excited to present the late Mark Heard himself in the form of some vintage interview tape-recorded around the time of the album’s original release in 1990.
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Episode 20 Song List
DC Talk:
“Jesus Freak” (Jesus Freak)
“The Hardway” (Welcome to the Freak Show)
“In the Light” (Instrumental)
“What If I Stumble?” (Welcome to the Freak Show)
Kevin Max:
“Return of the Singer” (Stereotype Be)
“Righteous Rocker #1” (Revisiting This Planet)
“I Don’t Belong” (Stereotype Be)
“Be” (Stereotype Be)
“Lonely Moon” (Strong Hand Of Love: A Tribute To Mark Heard)
“The Outlaw” (Revisiting This Planet)
“The Great American Novel” (Revisiting This Planet)
“I Wish We’d All Been Ready” (Revisiting This Planet)
“God Part IV” (Revisiting This Planet)
“Girl with the Tiger Eyes” (Playing Games with the Shadow)
“21st Century Darlings” (Between the Fence and the Universe)
Sad Astronauts: “In Space No One Can Hear You Weep”
Chris Taylor:
“Everything Begins Here” (Instrumental) Lovers, Thieves, Fools + Pretenders
“Awake” (Meditation)
“Melt Into Morning” (Meditation)
“Thou Art a Dreaming Thing” (Meditation)
“Spirit Rhythm” (Meditation)
Love Coma:
“The Boomerang” (Instrumental) (Love Coma)
“Burn The Night Away” (Instrumental) (Love Coma)
“Two of a Million” (Instrumental) (Love Coma)
Mark Heard:
“Our Restless Hearts” (Dry Bones Dance)
“Nobody’s Looking” (Dry Bones Dance)
“How Many Tears” (Dry Bones Dance)
“Rise from the Ruins” (Dry Bones Dance)
“The Dry Bones Dance” (Dry Bones Dance)
“Waiting for a Reason” (Dry Bones Dance)
“Awake In the Nighttime” (Dry Bones Dance)
“Everything Is Alright” (Lost Ideola demo) (Dry Bones Dance)
“Lonely Road (More Fiddle Mix)” (Dry Bones Dance)
“Strong Hand of Love” (Remaster in progress) (Dry Bones Dance)
Soundstripe artists –
Matt Wigton – The Sound of Summer; Sky Runner; Cloud; Neon Feel
Morgan Taylor – West Wind
Brent Wood – Sunrise Drive; Stuck in the 80s
Phil Keaggy – “Naoh’s Shuffle” (The Song Within)
Phil Keaggy & Rex Paul – “Full Circle” (Instrumental) Illumination
