The Fray: How to Save a Life
CML call number: CD/ROCK/Fray
Elysa Gardner wrote in USA Today: "With its debut album, How to Save a Life, this band from Denver has taken flight on radio and online. The CD has gone gold and is No. 5 on iTunes, and single Over My Head (Cable Car) holds the No. 7 and No. 5 spots on the mainstream and adult Top 40 airplay charts, respectively. Another single, Life's title track, has been featured on ABC's Grey's Anatomy and in HBO's Summer Image campaign. … The Fray was formed in 2002 by singer/pianist Isaac Slade and guitarist/singer Joe King, who remain the principal songwriters. Drummer Ben Wysocki and guitarist Dave Welsh, both of whom had worked with King, joined a year later. Slade, 25, 'wasn't allowed to listen to secular music' as a child. … 'My parents wanted me to listen to Christian music, and I wanted pop, so we settled on jazz as a happy medium. Then my parents started easing up a bit, and we got into Counting Crows and Better Than Ezra.' … Faith continues to be an important factor for the members of the Fray, who 'grew up middle-of-the-road Protestant,' Slade says. But 'we don't call ourselves a Christian band. …'" (7/12/06).
Elysa Gardner wrote in USA Today: "With its debut album, How to Save a Life, this band from Denver has taken flight on radio and online. The CD has gone gold and is No. 5 on iTunes, and single Over My Head (Cable Car) holds the No. 7 and No. 5 spots on the mainstream and adult Top 40 airplay charts, respectively. Another single, Life's title track, has been featured on ABC's Grey's Anatomy and in HBO's Summer Image campaign. … The Fray was formed in 2002 by singer/pianist Isaac Slade and guitarist/singer Joe King, who remain the principal songwriters. Drummer Ben Wysocki and guitarist Dave Welsh, both of whom had worked with King, joined a year later. Slade, 25, 'wasn't allowed to listen to secular music' as a child. … 'My parents wanted me to listen to Christian music, and I wanted pop, so we settled on jazz as a happy medium. Then my parents started easing up a bit, and we got into Counting Crows and Better Than Ezra.' … Faith continues to be an important factor for the members of the Fray, who 'grew up middle-of-the-road Protestant,' Slade says. But 'we don't call ourselves a Christian band. …'" (7/12/06).
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