The Eleventh Hour (album)

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The Eleventh Hour
Studio album by Jars of Clay
Released	March 5, 2002
Recorded	Sputnik Sound in Franklin, TN, The Playground in Nashville, TN, FrontPage Studios in Hollywood, CA
Genre	Folk rock
Length	42:26
Label	Essential Records
Producer(s)	Jars of Clay
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Jars of Clay chronology
If I Left The Zoo (1999)	The Eleventh Hour (2002)	Furthermore: From the Studio, From the Stage (2003)

The Eleventh Hour is the fourth album of Christian band Jars of Clay. It was released in 2002 by Essential Records.

The Eleventh Hour was hailed as a return to Jars of Clay's original sound, though in truth it bore stylistic similarities to all three of the albums preceding it, and continued the trend of favoring poetic lyrics over straightforwardly "Christian" lyrics (with lead single "I Need You" being a notable exception, reflecting a trend toward more direct and simplistic "worship songs" that had become popular in Christian music at around the turn of the century). The electric guitar was a more notable presence here than on past albums as well.

The song "Fly" had limited success at mainstream radio, but by this point, Jars of Clay was much less visible in mainstream music than they had been in the mid-nineties.

The album was recorded in the band's own Sputnik Studio, and they self-produced it in addition to doing much of the photography and artwork on their own. This was the first time that they had produced their own material since the self-titled album.

This album earned the band a third consecutive Grammy Award in the Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album category.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Disappear"
2. "Something Beautiful"
3. "Revolution"
4. "Fly"
5. "I Need You"
6. "Silence"
7. "Scarlet"
8. "Whatever She Wants"
9. "The Eleventh Hour"
10. "These Ordinary Days"
11. "The Edge of Water"

[edit] Personnel

• Shawn McWilliams - drums in Tracks 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
• Joe Porter - drums in Tracks 1, 3, 4, 7
• Chris Donahue - bass guitar in Tracks 2, 8, 11
• Aaron Sands - bass guitar in Tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 7
• Tab Laven - banjo in Track 11
• John Catchings - cello in Tracks 2, 6, 11
• Fleming Painter - guest vocal in Track 7
• Robert Beeson - executive producer
• Vance Powell - engineer
• Mitch Dane - engineer in Track 3
• Jeremy Cottrell - second engineer
• Josh Williams - second engineer at FrontPage Studios
• Joseph Puig - mixer
• Bob Ludwig - mastering

[edit] Charts

Release Year	The Billboard 200 Chart Position
2002	28