Living the Dream - by Downhere

"On the Altar of Love" just released today - go pick it up!
Downhere is a group of “Canadians mostly living in America”*; based out of Nashville, TN.  The band started as Jason Germain & Marc Martel – both the key songwriters & singers – who were roommates at Briercrest Bible College in Saskatchewan; they had left for the college in 1996 & were already into writing together & began recording some of their songs for their Recording Arts class.  They were signed to Slyngshot Records in 1998 & released what became their first independent album (it was self-titled).  Following this, they acquired other musicians & began touring for the album – the college itself even helped with the act, supplying a van, sound gear, lights, & sound technicians.  The musicians that joined them at first were drummer Jeremy Thiessen & bassist Tyson Manning along with guitarist Corey Doak.  2 years later, in Feb. 2001, they were signed to Word Records & re-released their debut with a few new songs replacing some others.  By that time, however, Manning & Doak left the band & Glenn Lavendar took over the low frequencies.  Since that member switch-up, they’ve remained the same but have since switched labels (to Centricity for their 2006 release “Wide Eyed and Mystified”), & have released 4 more studio albums plus other EP’s & a Christmas album to boot.  This song is from their latest, “On the Altar of Love”, released just today, Aug. 23rd, 2011 on Centricity Records.
http://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/listeningparty/party1.asp (this song isn’t one of the singles from the album, so you can go here to listen to it; it’s the 5th track)
(^ & if the link were to not ever work, you should be able to go to the top menu bar, & under 'Music', go to 'Listening Parties' & find the album somewhere in there...)


* - https://www.facebook.com/downhere