Claude says:Jars of Clay spent 2005 reimagining hymns and spirituals at their Nashville studio with producer Mitch Dane, enlisting the Blind Boys of Alabama and Martin Smith along the way. They treated these old texts like raw material for new songs rather than straight covers. You gave it a shot in late 2006, a year and a half after release, but it never stuck — just a handful of scattered plays over the next decade, mostly drawn to the quieter ones like "Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder" and "God Will Lift Up Your Head."