Origin Manhattan, Kansas Labels Fair Trade | Years active 2008 (2008)–present Website clovertonmusic.com | |
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Genres Contemporary Christian music, contemporary worship music Members Lance Stafford
Layne Stafford
Rains Wall
Conner Giles Albums The End Is the Beginning, We Sing Joy, Patterns, Cloverton Profiles | ||
Cloverton is a contemporary Christian music and worship band from Manhattan, Kansas. The band started out as Lance Stafford on lead vocals and keys with his twin brother Layne Stafford on background vocals and bass guitar, alongside, drummer Kirby LeMoine and lead guitarist Josh Svorinic. This would change in 2015 with Kirby LeMoine's and Josh Svorinic's departure from the band, and the addition of Rains Wall on drums and Conner Giles on guitar. The band released a successful single in 2011, "Take Me Into the Beautiful" with Fair Trade. This charted on various Christian music songs charts that Billboard publishes. The band would not get to release a full-fledged album with the label, so they crowdfunded, their first debut album, Patterns in 2013. This album did not chart. Their first Christmas extended play, We Sing Joy, charted on three Billboard charts.
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Background
Cloverton is a Christian music band from Manhattan, Kansas, and are made up of Kirby LeMoine on drums, Lance Stafford on lead vocals and keys, Layne Stafford on bass guitar and background vocals and Josh Svorinic on lead guitar. The twin brother Stafford's father is a music teacher. At seven, the two started playing the piano and doing concerts. Each member of the inaugural band came from a musical background. The group began performing together at a Manhattan church. In 2011, the band won "Rock the Camp" contest put on by TobyMac, and were consequently rewarded with air time on K-LOVE, a spot to perform on the K-LOVE cruise, "Rock the Cruise", and got some studio time. This allowed them to start their musical careers.
Music history
On January 31, 2009, the band independently released, Cloverton - EP. The band released, "Take Me Into the Beautiful", with Fair Trade Services, in 2011, to Christian radio success with chartings on Billboard's Christian Songs at No. 21 and Christian AC/CHR at No. 13. This was on their extended play, The End Is the Beginning, that was released by Fair Trade on February 9, 2012. Then, the band would crowdfunded, Patterns, but this failed to chart. Yet, it was reviewed by publications positively such as HM Magazine, Jesus Freak Hideout, and New Release Tuesday, getting a three and a half star review from HM Magazine and acquiring a four and a half star review by New Release Tuesday. After this, Cloverton would release independently a Christmas music extended play, We Sing Joy, which charted on three Billboard charts, and those were Christian Albums at No. 17, Heatseekers Albums at No. 3 and No. 28 on the Independent Albums chart. With this extended play, they released the single "A Hallelujah Christmas", that charted at No. 29 on the Christian Songs chart. The band added, in 2015, drummer Rains Wall and guitarist Conner Giles because of the departure of Kirby LeMoine and Josh Svorinic, who left at the same time.
Songs
A Hallelujah Christmas2012
Take Me Into the BeautifulThe End Is the Beginning · 2012
God Help Me to BePatterns · 2013