Come Together

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It’s been Third Day’s special mission to apply the rough-cut edge of Southern Rock to contemporary worship music. The Georgia-based quintet achieved an especially winning combination of music and message on <i>Come Together</i> in 2001. The songs draw upon the themes and motifs of the psychedelic era, all in the service of expressing Christian love and faith. Mac Powell’s emotive growl of a voice — pitched somewhere between Travis Tritt and Eddie Vedder — carries a distinctive back-woods grit, yet also conveys humility and reverence. He roars through the churning “40 Days” and testifies plaintively on the simmering “Nothing Compares.” As a unit, Third Day slinks into Stones-style blues-rock on “I’m Still Listening” and slips in some hip-hop groovesmanship on “My Heart” and “I Got You.” The title track is an idealistic call for brotherhood akin to the Jesus Music of the early ‘70s. All told, <i>Come Together</i> successfully dips into the sonic colors and lyric sentiments of the Summer Of Love within a modern Christian music context, offering them up with the down-home flavor that’s won the band an enduring following.

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