New Song "Compromise"

Update 4/27/2006: CDD has re-uploaded the clip to those of you coming here for it! We've been flooded with traffic to this specific post today.

The CH's finyanga has found a new ASCAP listing for Clay! Looks like this new song, Compromise, will appear on Clay's upcoming sophomore album.

Download a snippet (normal left click please; scroll down the page) of the song from an interview with the Raleigh News & Observer, Dec. 18. Courtesy Gerwhisp/Raleigh N&O. (MP3 format)

ASCAP is listing Clay as the performer on a song called "Compromise," written by John Christopher Farren, Benjamin Glover and Matt Bronleewe.

It looks to me as though they may have put this team together at that songwriter hoedown that JFL attended. Farren is a country songwriter. Benjamin Glover is described by allmusic as a contemporary Christian singer with a funk rock edge (although he also wrote "You Were There" for Avalon) and Matt Bronleewe is a member of the CCM group Jars of Clay. Bronleewe co-wrote Kim Locke's "Wrong" which is decidedly pop rather than CCM so you decide whether that's good news (hee) or bad news. *g*

Obviously, it's tempting to extrapolate about the style and direction of the album from these credits, but that's really hard to do, and it's impossible to do well. I'm hoping that the title implies a tale of struggle, rather than a more heavy-handed CCM effort, but it's equally possible that "Compromise" fits in with the theme set by "Back for More" and is a song about how much radio play you get if you pay ClearChannel fifty cents (hee) on the dollar. What?