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Album: The Medicine
Released: Jan 1, 2010
Label: Integrity/Columbia

General Info

  • Genre: Alternative / Folk Rock / Indie

    Location Madison Park, Un

    Profile Views: 744985

    Last Login: 5/15/2012

    Member Since 7/4/2005

    Website www.thejohnmark.com

    Record Label Integrity Music/Columbia

    Type of Label Major

  • Bio

    "Raise your voice / Chase away the ghosts." So begins the title track from John Mark McMillan's upcoming release, Economy. A natural progression and a departure, McMillan's latest album has moved away from the themes of death and resurrection that clothed The Medicine to the interior psychology of a man trying to live in the uneasy valley between this world and the next, standing on the edge of the ocean of eternity, straining to see beyond the horizon line. "For me, the greatest days—the birth of a child, the success of a career—have always been coupled with the worst ones—the death of a loved one, a friends' divorce," McMillan explains, "it's a tension we all live in." On Economy, that tension is electric. From the first drum beat of album opener "Sheet of Night" to the post-rock cacophony that closes out "Seen a Darkness," there is a palpable weight that permeates the LP. This is Gospel music run through the filter of the Southern night; this is electrified folk—the music of a man who cut his teeth on Dylan and Kerouac and Springsteen all the while haunted by the presence of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. Economy is the sound of glory and shame; murder and grace; darkness and daylight; and all those spaces in between. And it shows up in the songs—in the delicate beauty of "Love You Swore," in the rowdy drawl of "Daylight," and the quiet solemnity of "Murdered Son." For those who have been following McMillan's steady rise as an artist, Economywill not disappoint. McMillan has again grown as a lyricist and a songwriter—this body of work finds the North Carolina-based artist at his most mature. And sonically, the album is far greater than the sum of its parts, served by the production team of Jeremy Griffith and Joel Khouri, performed by the musicians that have supported McMillan across the world. The team have created a perfect accompaniment to McMillan's searching, searing vision of a world that is "not as it should be." But it's not just a broken world that McMillan's singing about, with Economyhe's pointing out across the horizon, across the waters, to the hope of something much more than the devil's "broken hearts and counterfeit currency." "We have seen the night," John Mark sings, and then adds, "but we have seen the day."

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  • Influences

    The Muppet Show, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones, My Morning Jacket, Band Of Horses, Hank Sr., Pete Yorn, Van Morison, Kevin Prosch, The Black Pepper Corns, Counting Crows, Guns 'N' Roses, Micheal Jackson, The HS.

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  • Helen J. House

    Have a good day. ah~

    1 year ago
  • ELEVATION

    WHATS UP JMM??? VOTE FOR ELEVATION: http://www.mtvu.com/music/the-freshmen/nominees-110209/

    3 years ago
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    HEY YOU! YOU SHOULD COME TO THIS!

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    & The Tomahawks
    @The Evening Muse
    (3227 N. Davidson St. Charlotte, NC)
    Thursday May 28th 2009
    5$ / Early Show: 8pm
    See ya there!

    3 years ago
  • Daniel Castaneda

    HEy!! Thanks for the add John Mark!! Great sound!! Luv ure tunes brotha!!

    3 years ago
  • Meagen Moody

    Thanks for the add! Been enjoying your new disc!

    3 years ago
  • marc james

    you rock my world!! come to the uk!

    4 years ago
  • Brian N

    When you coming back to Campbellville university in Kentucky?

    4 years ago
  • Brenton Brown

    Hey man, really enjoying The Medicine. It's a great record. Bummed I missed seeing you play in Nashville on Friday. Hope we cross paths someday.
    brenton.

    4 years ago
  • Over the Ocean

    The Medicine = Radtastical.

    4 years ago
  • Nathan K.

    you're so freaking good. and i usually hate "christian" singer-songwriters, because they make God sound like something that's not worth my time. so yeah man. hope you're doing well.

    4 years ago
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