A conversation with Dan Haseltine, Matthew Nelson, and Tony Evans - S10.E1
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🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Host Warren Smith talks to the musical duo behind The Chosen soundtrack. Dan Haseltine and Matthew Nelson are also former members of the popular Christian band, Jars of Clay. He also talks to pastor and author Tony Evans about his new book on racial reconciliation.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Warren Smith, and I'd like to welcome you to a new season of listening in. |
| 0:10.2 | Today, you'll be listening in on a pair of conversations I had at the recent meeting of the |
| 0:14.8 | National Religious Broadcasters in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 0:19.0 | Later in the program, we'll hear from pastor and author, Dr. Tony Evans. |
| 0:23.7 | But we get started today with songwriters and composers, Dan Hazleton, |
| 0:29.3 | and cellist and composer Matthew Nelson. |
| 0:33.4 | They're the musicians behind the soundtrack to the wildly popular streaming television series about the life of Jesus called The Chosen. |
| 0:44.0 | It's sort of Middle Eastern Indian drone, delta blues, and a lot of slave spirituals were kind of the core of what we wanted to create and putting those things together. |
| 0:56.3 | We weren't sure if it was going to make a good sound or a bad sound or what, but it turned out to be a good sound. |
| 1:01.3 | And it's definitely become the character of the show. |
| 1:05.2 | Dan Hazleton is best known as the frontman for one of Christian music's most popular bands, Jars of Clay. |
| 1:13.3 | The band's debut self-titled album, released in 1995, not only went to the top of the Christian |
| 1:21.0 | charts, but crossed over to the secular charts, eventually selling more than 2 million copies. |
| 1:29.1 | The band's second album, 1997's Much Afraid, didn't match the breakout success of their debut, |
| 1:36.7 | but still managed to sell a million copies and make it onto the top 10 of the Billboard |
| 1:43.6 | album chart. Their third album, if I left the zoo, |
| 1:47.3 | won a Grammy for Best Gospel album and eventually went gold itself with a half million in sales. |
| 1:54.7 | The band did not officially break up, though it has been on more or less indefinite hiatus for nearly a decade. |
| 2:03.0 | Their last album came out in 2013. |
| 2:06.2 | And the members of the band have moved on to other projects. |
| 2:09.6 | For Dan Hazleton, one of those projects has been to work on the soundtrack for the streaming |
| 2:15.4 | television phenomenon, The Chosen. |
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