DecembeRadio is satisfied!

Hey, ec readers!
I just got back from a meet 'n greet and interview with the band DecembeRadio. If you don't remember these guys, their self-titled first album came out in June 2006. They were nominated for a Grammy in 2007 and received four Dove Award nominations. They came home with the Dove Award for Rock Album of the Year, which was a pretty big deal, since the Virginia-based foursome was a pretty new face in the Christian music world.

The guys are all set to release their second album, Satisfied, in August. And took some time to talk about what they've learned from their success with me. Here's a few outtakes:

“The Grammy nod, we definitely didn't expect that," says Josh Reedy, lead singer and bass player. “God humbles you in strange ways. You know, we just went from playing the Third Day tour to a small town in Mississippi where everything was run through a Peavey system on sticks that basically blew up. We had to move the whole thing inside and play and almost no one was there."

The guys pointed out that early in their career, they traveled with an evangelist who really helped them to see that all of this wasn't really about them; it was about God.

“God put us on the floor face up toward Him. ‘This is not about you,’ He said. ‘Music shouldn't be your God,’” says Reedy.

The band seeks to stay spiritually grounded and focused on giving God the glory by spending time in prayer—with each other as a band and separately. And they're thankful for the spiritual grounding and discipleship they got early on as a band by traveling with an evangelist who became a mentor of sorts.

And according to Brian Bunn, lead guitar and vocals, they've also got three other things in their lives that help them stay grounded and humble:

“A, Your wife will help you stay humble," he says. “B, We still travel on a 15-passenger van. That reminds us every time we get on. And C, whenever we fly into airports, people ask us, ‘Who are you?’ When we tell them DecembeRadio, they don't recognize us and it's like ‘Hey, yeah, can you move your bags?’”

All in all, these guys are the real deal. Give Satisfied a listen when it comes out on August 26, 2008. Meanwhile, check out these hits from the first album:
"Drifter"


"Love Found Me"