I think the hardest thing was just deciding which songs sounded right in this format. There are so many great hymns but some of them just sound better with a whole lot of people singing them or with a lot of parts. We were just trying to find hymns that would sound good in a very simplistic format. Those three songs came out very quickly and were recorded very quickly and seemed right for the collection. Whenever you see somebody covering anything, but especially religious songs, there tends to be a bit of rigidity to it.
Many people seem afraid to tinker with arrangements too much.
Yeah, I think with us the last thing we wanted to do was take a really traditional and reverent hymn and turn it into something it was never meant to be. We were trying to make sure that our arrangements somehow captured the essence of the song, that somehow the recording provided the right atmosphere for the lyric and the intent of the lyric. You talked a little bit about how you were becoming more simple, writing simpler songs. It seems as if from album to album layers of sound have been leaving. Yeah, it's not really a planned thing, or it hasn't been a planned thing.