Furthermore: From the Studio, From the Stage is the fifth album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 of Christian

Christian rock

Christian rock is a form of rock music played by individuals and bands whose members are Christians and who often focus the lyrics on matters concerned with the Christian faith. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands...

 band Jars of Clay

Jars of Clay

Jars of Clay is a Christian rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. They met at Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois.Jars of Clay consists of Dan Haseltine on vocals, Charlie Lowell on piano and keyboards, Stephen Mason on lead guitars and Matthew Odmark on rhythm guitars...

. It was released in 2003 by Essential Records

Essential Records (Christian)

Essential Records is a Contemporary Christian record label based in Franklin, Tennessee. It is a division of a major label, Sony Music Entertainment.-History:...

. The album consists of two discs, one containing a live performance, and the other featuring re-recorded versions of songs from previous albums and three songs not previously on Jars of Clay albums.

History

Furthermore was conceived as an alternative means of putting out a greatest hits

Greatest hits

A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...

 project. The band chose to re-release a number of their most popular songs in re-recorded acoustic versions (Disc one) and live versions (Disc two). The only song to appear twice is "The Eleventh Hour", the title track of the prior album, and it appears as track five on both Studio and Stage discs.

The first disc also featured three new songs - "The Valley Song (Sing Of Your Mercy)

The Valley Song (Sing of Your Mercy)

"The Valley Song " is a song written and performed by Jars of Clay. It was the only single released in support of their 2003 studio/live double album, Furthermore: From the Studio, From the Stage. Aaron Sands, the bass player for the band during concert tours, is credited for co-writing the song...

", a cover of "Dig" (originally by pioneering Christian alternative band Adam Again

Adam Again

Adam Again was a rock band founded and led by vocalist Gene Eugene, with Riki Michele on vocals, Paul Valadez on bass, Jon Knox on drums, Greg Lawless on guitar...

), and "Redemption". "Needful Hands" was not from one of the group's albums; they recorded it in 1998 for the worship collection Exodus

Exodus (compilation album)

Exodus is a Christian compilation album, featuring various artists of Contemporary Christian Music, such as dc Talk, Jars of Clay, Third Day, and Michael W. Smith. The album is noted for recreations of two well-known songs: Third Day recreates Michael W. Smith's "Agnus Dei" with a version still...

.

The second disc featured audio of most of the songs from the group's DVD

DVD

A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

, 11Live: Jars of Clay In Concert

11Live: Jars of Clay in Concert

11Live: Jars of Clay in Concert is a concert video DVD recorded and released by Jars of Clay's tour in support of their studio album, The Eleventh Hour...

, which documented their tour for The Eleventh Hour. All of the songs on this disc originally appeared on the band's first four albums, except for "This Road", which comes from the first of a series of multi-artist worship albums called City on a Hill

City on a Hill

City on a Hill is an metaphor from the Salt and Light section of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew.It may also refer to:*City upon a Hill, a line from a famous sermon by Puritan John Winthrop frequently invoked in discussions of American exceptionalism.*City on a Hill , a series...

.

This collection can be seen as a merging of two eras for Jars of Clay. The live concert is, for the most part, the last of their "rock" material, and the acoustic disc looks forward to the more folk and country

Country music

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 influenced turn that their next few albums would take.

Charts & RIAA Certifications

Release Year	The Billboard 200 Chart Position	RIAA Certification RIAA certification In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets. Other countries have similar awards...
2003	64	Gold

Disc One (From the Studio)

1. "Overjoyed
   Overjoyed
   "Overjoyed" is a song by American Christian rock group Jars of Clay. It was the fourth single from the band's second album, Much Afraid, and the fourth consecutive No. 1 radio single from the album. An acoustic rendition of the song appears on the band's 2003 double album, Furthermore: From the...
   
   " - 3:40
2. "Something Beautiful" - 3:57
3. "The Valley Song (Sing Of Your Mercy)
   The Valley Song (Sing of Your Mercy)
   "The Valley Song " is a song written and performed by Jars of Clay. It was the only single released in support of their 2003 studio/live double album, Furthermore: From the Studio, From the Stage. Aaron Sands, the bass player for the band during concert tours, is credited for co-writing the song...
   
   " - 4:11
4. "Liquid" - 3:38
5. "The Eleventh Hour" - 4:09
6. "Dig" (Adam Again
   Adam Again
   Adam Again was a rock band founded and led by vocalist Gene Eugene, with Riki Michele on vocals, Paul Valadez on bass, Jon Knox on drums, Greg Lawless on guitar...
   
    cover) - 3:14
7. "Redemption" - 3:10
8. "Love Song for a Savior" - 4:49
9. "Frail
   Frail (song)
   "Frail" is a song written and performed by Christian alternative folk rock group Jars of Clay. It has appeared on many recordings by the group and lends its name to the group's debut demo release, Frail, from 1994...
   
   " - 4:15
10. "Needful Hands
    Needful Hands
    "Needful Hands" is a song written and performed by Jars of Clay. The song was recorded for the special event album Exodus, which also featured contributions from dc Talk, Sixpence None the Richer, and Third Day, among many other Christian artists. The single reached number one on the Christian...
    
    " - 2:47

Disc Two (From the Stage)

1. "Disappear" - 4:41
2. "Like a Child
   Like a Child
   "Like a Child" is the fourth radio single from Jars of Clay from their self-titled debut album. Like many of the other tracks off the album, the song was written while the band members were students at Greenville College. The band's demo album, Frail, released in 1994, contains the first known...
   
   " - 4:43
3. "Crazy Times
   Crazy Times
   "Crazy Times" is a song recorded and performed by Jars of Clay. The song was a writing collaboration between band members Dan Haseltine and Stephen Mason with songwriters Mark Hudson and Greg Wells. It was the first single from their second studio album, Much Afraid. The single fared well in the...
   
   " - 3:56
4. "I Need You" - 3:35
5. "The Eleventh Hour" - 4:18
6. "This Road
   This Road
   "This Road" is a song written and performed by Jars of Clay that appears on the compilation album City on a Hill: Songs of Worship and Praise that was released in 2000 through Essential Records. The song was also featured on the bonus CD that was packaged with the Brother Andrew-penned book...
   
   " - 4:29
7. "Fly
   Fly (Jars of Clay song)
   "Fly" is a song written and performed by Jars of Clay. It was the first mainstream single and second Christian radio single from their 2002 studio album, The Eleventh Hour...
   
   " - 3:46
8. "I'm Alright
   If I Left the Zoo
   If I Left the Zoo is the third album of the band Jars of Clay. It was released November 9, 1999 by Essential Records.-Overview:The band's third album brought about another stylistic shift, away from the lush sound of Much Afraid and into more of a raw and quirky pop/rock sound with occasional folk...
   
   " - 5:14
9. "Revolution
   Revolution (Jars of Clay song)
   "Revolution" is a song written and performed by Jars of Clay. The song is the third of four radio singles released in promotion of the band's The Eleventh Hour...
   
   " - 3:43
10. "Flood
    Flood (song)
    "Flood" is a song written and performed by Jars of Clay. It is considered to be their breakthrough song due to airplay on contemporary Christian music and alternative rock radio stations, two radio formats which rarely interact with one another. It was released in 1995 on their self-titled debut...
    
    " - 3:59
11. "Worlds Apart
    Worlds Apart (Jars of Clay song)
    "Worlds Apart" is a song written and recorded by Jars of Clay. The song is the fifth and final radio single from the band's self-titled debut album. The band has mentioned that it took several months to finally complete the song to the form that it appears in on the album. This was due to the...
    
    " - 10:52