{"id":362,"date":"2008-11-17T13:26:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T13:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/11\/have-you-heard-of-woven-hand.html"},"modified":"2008-11-17T13:26:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T13:26:40","slug":"have-you-heard-of-woven-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/11\/have-you-heard-of-woven-hand.html","title":{"rendered":"Have you heard of Woven Hand?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WovenHand.jpg\"<\/span>One of the things I love about Google alerts is that they let me check out stuff I might never hear about otherwise. Being immersed in the CCM fishbowl, I get to see some of the stuff happening on the fringe, but not much.
\nSo when I stumbled upon this story about David Eugene Edwards by Andrew Gilstrap, Associate Music Editor at PopMatters.com<\/a>, I had to share it. Not only is Gilstrap a great writer, but I’d never heard of Woven Hand or David Eugene Edwards before.<\/p>\n


\nFrom the story, it’s clear that Edwards is a Christian, raised in the Christian faith, and still devout as an adult. But his music is less easily labeled.
\nGilstrap says, “In a world where you can have a Christian version of pretty much any genre, Woven Hand’s David Eugene Edwards is a real outlier because you wouldn’t know where to put him if he were a secular artist.”
\nI don’t think the Christian industry has a pigeon hole for him, either. The band’s MySpace page labels them “Visual\/Experimental” and last time I checked there wasn’t a category for that at the Dove Awards.
\nGilstrap quotes Edwards:<\/p>\n

As he once told an interviewer, “There’s beauty in music because God is the author of music. And so with that, I try to be true to the creativity of it and to make it interesting and beautiful. Or maybe confronting, or peaceful, or angry, or whatever the mood is. I try to stay true to my own creativity as well as the message.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That an artist can connect to the Creator and put out music that not like anything else on the CCM charts is a good thing<\/em>, folks. And while it might not be your cup of tea, musically (no, you can’t sing along while you’re driving the kids to soccer practice, Becky<\/a>), that’s not to say that it can’t challenge you or offer a unique perspective on the human spirit and our relationship with God.
\nAnyway, in the spirit of my occasional “are we sick of CCM yet?” attitude and my dismay that I might be completely ruined for actual art (I’ve had several people ask why I haven’t covered the Taylor Swift\/Joe Jonas breakup and I’m seriously considering it, heaven help me), check out Woven Hand. Just as an experiment.<\/a>
\nAnd read Gilstrap’s article<\/a> to learn more about Woven Hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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