Blur the Lines (CD - 2006)

Personnel: Jason Crabb (guitar, electric guitar, background vocals); John Willis (acoustic guitar, mandolin); Gary Burnette, Jerry McPherson, Kenny Greenberg, Mark Baldwin (electric guitar); Tommy White (sitar); Jonathan Yudkin (violin, viola, cello); Tim Akers (strings, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet, Wurlitzer organ, Mellotron); Adam Crabb (harmonica, background vocals); Lonnie Wilson (drums, tambourine, sleigh bell); Paul Leim (drums, timpani, percussion programming); Bubba Smith (bongos, cowbells, cymbals, finger cymbals, maracas, shaker, tambourine, triangle, wood block, bells, wind chime); Justin Kropf (percussion programming); Aaron Crabb, Kelly Bowling, Perry Coleman (background vocals).

Audio Mixer: Jeff Balding.

Liner Note Authors: Jason Crabb; Adam Crabb; Aaron Crabb; Kelly Bowling.

Photographer: Kimberly Lancaster.

Arranger: Bubba Smith.

The Crabb Family are one of the hottest things going in contemporary gospel music. With their blend of Christian themes, light rock, R&B, traditional gospel, and commercial pop, the Crabbs make a joyful and radio-friendly noise. BLUR THE LINES offers more of the positive, faith-driven music that has earned the Crabb Family legions of fans across the U.S.

As usual, frontman Gerald Crabb pens the lion's share of tunes, and his batch for BLUR THE LINES veers from power ballads to bluesy funk to introspective folk to uptempo R&B. That the Crabb Family can move so effortlessly between styles yet still manage to maintain their core sound and message is the group's most impressive quality, and that quality is in ample evidence on this 2006 release. minimize