David Crowder quote...

At the End of October this past year, we lost our close friend and pastor Kyle Lake. The day it happened we were in Orlando, Florida. We were on tour with our friends, Robbie Seay and Shane and Shane, in support of our recently released album – A Collision. It was sunny. I was hitting golf balls and admiring the blue sky when the phone rang. It was my wife. “What do you mean electrocuted? Is he ok?” I asked. “I don’t know. They’ll call with an update. People are working on him.” “What do you mean ‘working on him’?”

After multiple calls over the thirty minutes that followed, we finally received word that our friend had died.

Our album, A Collision, had been composed as a Christian response to death. We had no idea at the time of its inception that it was soon to become exactly what we needed. Art and grief intermingle in ways that other things cannot. Simple songs burrow deep. They help exhale the sadness and transport relief.

We have been writing a book about mourning and art and their symbiotic relationships, the way each feeds the other. We’ve been collecting things, assessing our situation, enjoying the fragility of where we sit in this world as humans and documenting it. “Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.” – There are truths there that are difficult to discuss in the open air. So we have assembled it in book form for private viewing. It is a tone concerning death and bluegrass music. It is about community, the company of friends, and the necessity of touch, the need for one another. It is about memory and the kingdom of heaven. It is about the soul. It is about grief and triumph.

Death does not win. It is not the end. It is the beginning...