Hello, everyone!
We are extremely excited about our new CD release, "Bless the Broken Road - the Duets Album" which will be in stores August 8th! We're just two months away from the release date, so every week until then we will be featuring a clip or two from the album so you can hear what we've been up to for the past few months! We'll also be talking about each Duet artist that is featured, so be sure to check back each week to see who will be on the album with us!

We begin with our current single, "Bless the Broken Road" with Melodie Crittenden. Todd, Melodie, and I (Allan) have been friends since college. I've known Melodie for about 17 years now, and we even went to the same church for several years. When Nicol left the group in December 2004, Melodie stepped in for most of 2005. Many of you got to hear her with us on the Michael W. Smith tour last Spring, in addition to our own concert dates. Melodie had a country deal in the late 1990's and recorded this song for her debut album in 1998. It was a chart hit for her and was also used prominently in the Season One Finale show of "Dawson's Creek." When she joined us, Todd and I wanted her to have a spot in the concert where she would be featured on a song so people could get to know her better. We started performing "Broken Road" live in our concerts shortly afterward, and the audience response was so overwhelming we knew we had to record it. The song has meant much to Melodie over the years, especially since it tells her life story so well (you'll have to read our CD liner notes for that!). Folks have been asking us for quite some time now if the song was available on any of our CDs (which had not been the case at the time). We are VERY happy to report that at last, it is!

GENTLE HEALER

For all of you who have been waiting to hear our new vocalist, Amy Perry, and have not been able to come to a concert of ours – here you go!! Amy is the featured vocalist on two of the duets on the new album, as well as adding background vocals to many of the songs. We will have a new bio up on the site soon where you can learn more about Amy, so I won't take extra space here to do that. Suffice it to say that she was sent by God to Selah and has such a wonderful heart (and voice, obviously!).

This is a beautiful song by Michael Card from the mid-1980s. I (Allan) have always loved and remembered this song from the first time I heard it. I love a good story-song, and this song paints a wonderful picture of our Savior doing extraordinary things among ordinary people.

GLORY

What is there to say about Nichole Nordeman? She has received so many industry accolades that it is unnecessary to repeat them here. We are absolutely thrilled and honored to have her appear on this album as a Duet guest! We all started out in this industry in the late ‘90s together, so it's been great to watch her career just blossom and expand to where it is today. Her songwriting and artistry just leave us in awe. We were also excited that she wrote a song specifically for us to record together for this project. What an honor for us! She wrote a beautiful, anthemic song about God's glory (hence the title).

But more importantly than all of that, we are so glad to call her a friend. She is a strong, open, “real” woman of God who strengthens all of us on our journey by letting us feel the honesty in her songs.