Released May 1, 2007 Artist Derek Webb Label Fair Trade Services | Length 30:33 Release date 1 May 2007 Producers Derek Webb, Cason Cooley | |
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Studio The Smoakstack and Sumner Studio, Nashville, TN The Ringing Bell
(2007) The Ampersand EP
(2008) Genre Contemporary Christian music Similar I See Things Upside D, She Must and Shall Go Free, Stockholm Syndrome, I Was Wrong - I'm Sorry & I, The House Show | ||
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The Ringing Bell (2007) is the fourth solo album release from singer-songwriter Derek Webb.
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Background
Webb has described the record as a rock record but that "it's fitting that it would be a hard thing to categorize that you couldn't just call it a rock record, that it would be too easy." He also stated that the song "Name" was "probably as close to a thesis as the record has." It carries Webb's theme that "categories in general are not helpful...it's hard to live in a world of categories when really what we need is to know each other and to engage each other and not to let our categories do the talking."
Webb has stated in response to some of his lyrics in "A Love That's Stronger Than Our Fear" and "A Savior on Capitol Hill", which generated talk that Webb was against the George Bush administration, that "I'm not anti-Bush at all...all things considered he deserves the benefit of the doubt and I want to give it to him...This has nothing to do with any specific people."
Critical response
The Ringing Bell received universally positive reviews from Christian critics. The review site Patrol gave the album a 9 on the site's ten-point scale - a record high - praising its "substance."
Paste Magazine gave 'The Ringing Bell' a 5 out of 5 and ranked it No. 27 on their Top 100 albums of 2007.
In the media
On November 8, 2007, the song "Name" was played at the beginning of the Season 4 Grey's Anatomy episode Physical Attraction, Chemical Reaction.
Songs
1The End1:34
2The Very End3:02
3A Love That's Stronger Than Our Fear3:03