An EP by Derek Webb and Sandra McCracken
I nonchalantly clicked over to the AmpersandEP.com, and listened to the song samples. I wasn’t really expecting too much. To my pleasant surprise, the listen changed my entire evening! I love the EP. I am a big, big fan of Caedmon’s Call, Webb, etc., but I already dig Ampersand more than anything either has previously produced. It’s really beautiful, melodic music. It made for a wonderful, peaceful, and relaxing background soundtrack for my late evening of prayerful work and contemplation. I love great music.
My rating: stars
I am up later than usual this evening, putting some finishing touches on a few projects and thinking up new ones to start tomorrow. It was a typical, non-eventful, late night; it was nothing special. I’m sure it would have ended the same way it began had I not received the following e-mail in my gmail inbox:
Happy Valentine’s Day from Derek Webb and Sandra McCracken
Eight years ago, singer/songwriter Derek Webb was making a routine coffee run for his Caedmon’s Call band mates when he heard Sandra McCracken, playing from the stage of the small Nashville coffee shop. Struck by McCracken’s voice and songwriting, Webb picked up a copy of her debut record and played it for the band. When Caedmon’s extended an invitation to McCracken to join them on the road, she and Webb discovered they were kindred spirits and soon began planning a future together. A future that now includes two solo careers, eight Derek Webb records, five Sandra McCracken records, and a newborn son.
But even after eight years of personal and professional collaboration, thirteen albums, a marriage, and a new baby, the one thing McCracken and Webb had never done together successfully was write songs. Until Now.
The result is Ampersand EP, a record that’s as sublimely melodic and superbly crafted as anything either artist has ever recorded, but one which reveals the couple in a surprisingly intimate and stunningly soulful new light.
Visit Ampersand EP.com to listen to song samples, pre-buy the record in several packages and get and IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD of the Ampersand EP.
Choose from the following Packages:
CD + Immediate Download = $6
CD + T-Shirt + Immediate Download = $18
CD + Immediate Download + Gravity | Love + The Ringing Bell = $25
If you’re needing a last minute Valentine’s present and can’t wait, click here to buy now.
Recommendation: Put this in your iPod. It’s great music.
