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For|the use of "third day" in the Bible|Third day in the BibleRedirect|Gomers|the Wisconsin band|The Gomers|the subject of the Two Gomers podcast|Two GomersInfobox musical artist| name = Third Day| image = third day01.JPG| caption = Third Day performing live at Hillsong Church , Sydney .| background = group_or_band| origin = Marietta, Georgia , USA| genre = nowrap| Christian rock , nowrap| southern rock , nowrap| Contemporary Christian music|contemporary Christian | years_active = 1991present| label = Essential Records (Christian)|Essential | website = URL| http://www.thirdday.com/| current_members = Mac Powell Tai Anderson David Carr (musician)|David Carr Mark Lee (musician)|Mark Lee | past_members = Brad Avery Billy Wilkins Third Day is a Grammy award-winning Christian rock band formed in Marietta, Georgia|Marietta , Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia during the 1990s. The band was founded by lead singer Mac Powell , guitarist Mark Lee (musician)|Mark Lee and former member Billy Wilkins .cite web|author=Third Day|date=|url= http://www.thirdday.com/timeline/92.htm|title=Third Day Timeline (1992)|accessdate= The other band members are bassist Tai Anderson and drummer David Carr. The band's name is a reference to the bible|biblical account of Jesus ' Resurrection of Jesus|rising from the dead on the Third day in the Bible|third day following his Crucifixion of Jesus|crucifixion . The band was inducted in the Georgia Music Hall of Fame on September 19, 2009.cite web|url= http://www.weekend22.com/music.cfm? newsid=813|title= Third Day Enters Georgia Hall of Fame|last=Williams|first=Lindsay|date=2009-09-26|publisher= Weekend 22 |accessdate=2009-11-08
History
In 1992, Mac Powell and Mark Lee (musician)|Mark Lee were playing at Lee's church the same night that David Carr & Tai Anderson played with a band called Bullard Family Singers . Once introduced, the group took to each other quickly and Carr & Anderson were invited to join the band.
In 1993, while remaining in school, the band started playing more aggressively around Atlanta and saved $3,000 to record a full-length album. Also, during this time, Wilkins, who was working full-time as a school teacher , decided to leave the band.cite web|author=Third Day|date=|url= http://www.thirdday.com/timeline/93.htm|title=Third Day Timeline (1993)|accessdate= Third Day continued to work on their album, recording at Furies Studios in Atlanta . With the production help of Carr, Long Time Forgotten was finally released in 1994 with 2,000 copies available.cite web|author=Third Day|date=|url= http://www.thirdday.com/timeline/94.htm|title=Third Day Timeline (1994)|accessdate= In 1995, the band started looking for a second guitarist and after hearing Brad Avery play with singer Chris Carder, Avery was asked to audition with the band. After playing Consuming Fire during their first rehearsal, Avery was officially asked to join the band.
As the band rounded off its line-up, at that time, Mark Lee had made difficult decision to quit the band, yet never really went through with it, to pursue a full time college load at Georgia Tech. So the band was found by and selected guitarist August McCoy. McCoy later went on to write & recorded with artists such as Sammy Ward, Brothers-n-Christ, and Sunsol; he is also seen reuniting after 13 years on the 2007 "Revelations" CD/DVD combo release. August McCoy is officially "The most forgotten & left out of the Third Day Legend" since he 'was' an official member at that time and appears in the line-up on the "Contagious" CD release and is firstly thanked in the subsequent Gray dot release of the band's next self-titled release) August McCoy ended up being the one to leave for college, exiting the band, when they started playing more steadily in venues around the Southeast. While playing in a Marietta, Georgia at the Strand Theatre, the owners offered the band a contract to sign with a new independent record label called Gray Dot Records. With recording contract in-hand, the band released the album Third Day (Independent album)|Third Day , which ended up selling 20,000 copies. Shortly after, Reunion Records bought out their Grey Dot contract and signed the band to a multi-album deal.cite web|author=Third Day|date=|url= http://www.thirdday.com/timeline/95.htm|title=Third Day Timeline (1995)|accessdate=
Reunion Records
Once under contract, Reunion Records immediately released the now official version of Third Day (album)|Third Day . The record has sold over 300,000 copies and was well received by critics. The album also yielded their only Mainstream Rock Tracks chart|mainstream rock radio hit in the U.S., "Nothing at All", which peaked at No. 34 on the Billboard magazine|Billboard rock charts.Allmusic|class=artist|id=p182586/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes Billboardcite web|author=Third Day|date=|url= http://www.thirdday.com/timeline/97.htm|title=Third Day Timeline (1997)|accessdate= Later the same year, Christian music headliner Newsboys asked Third Day to open for them at five of their West Coast shows. At the same time, they launched their own 65-city tour with All Star United and Seven Day Jesus opening for them. The band's successful debut was culminated with being nominated for a Dove Award in the category of New Artist of the Year and their video for Consuming Fire winning a Billboard Music Award in the category of Best Christian Video .cite web|author=Third Day|date=|url= http://www.thirdday.com/timeline/96.htm|title=Third Day Timeline (1996)|accessdate=
In the winter of 1997, the band started working on their second album, Conspiracy No. 5 . The album was produced by Sam Taylor (producer)|Sam Taylor , who had previously worked with King's X and other Christian bands. The album was nominated for a Grammy and won Dove Awards for Rock Album of the Year and Rock Song of the Year ("Alien").cite web|author=Third Day|date=|url= http://www.thirdday.com/timeline/97.htm|title=Third Day Timeline (1997)|accessdate= The following year, the band dedicated exclusively to touring (band)|touring around the United States, both alone and again opening for Newsboys. Also in 1998, the band recorded a cover of Michael W. Smith|Michael W.Smith's Agnus Dei for his Dove Award-winning compilation project Exodus (compilation album)|Exodus .
International success
In 1998, the band started working on their next project titled Time (Third Day album)|Time under the production of Monroe Jones. They had compiled approximately 30 songs to choose from during the last year and ended up choosing ten for the new album. Time was also nominated for a Grammy Award and won another Dove Award for the band. Some of the songs that were recorded for possible inclusion in the album, but were left out during production, can be found in the Extended play|EP Southern Tracks .cite web|author=Third Day|date=|url= http://www.thirdday.com/timeline/99.htm|title=Third Day Timeline (1999)|accessdate= During the band's live shows, the worship portion of the concert was becoming more "powerful", prompting the band to release an album made up exclusively of worship songs. The subsequent album was entitled Offerings: A Worship Album and took about a week to record. In 2000 to support both Time and Offerings , Third Day went on tour alongside Jennifer Knapp . Later the same year, the band also collaborated on the project City on a Hill: Songs of Worship and Praise alongside FFH , Caedmon's Call , Newsboys , Jars of Clay , and others.cite web|author=Third Day|date=|url= http://www.thirdday.com/timeline/00.htm|title=Third Day Timeline (2000)|accessdate=
In 2001, the band played in Australia and New Zealand on the heels of the success of the Offerings album. While touring in the States, Third Day recorded one of their concerts in Atlanta to be released as their first DVD , The Offerings Experience . The concert was held at the Hi-Fi Buys Amphitheatre with an attendance of close to 15,000 people. That same year, the band won a total of five Dove Awards as well as their first Grammy . They closed the year with the release of their fifth studio album, Come Together (Third Day album)|Come Together , which won two Dove Awards and one more Grammy. The album was certified gold the next year, along with Time .cite web|author=Third Day|date=|url= http://www.thirdday.com/timeline/01.htm|title=Third Day Timeline (2001)|accessdate=cite web|author=Third Day|date=|url= http://www.thirdday.com/timeline/02.htm|title=Third Day Timeline (2002)|accessdate= The band appeared in the 2002 film "Joshua", the movie version of the Joseph Girzone novel of the same name. The Third Day song My Hope is You was included in the Joshua soundtrack album. In 2003, the band released a follow-up to their hit worship CD Offerings entitled Offerings II: All I Have to Give .
In 2004, the band released their seventh album, Wire (album)|Wire , and toured the States with tobyMac and Warren Barfield . In June of the same year, the band traveled to Europe for a two-week tour. Upon returning, the band recorded a concert at Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville and released it as the live album, Live Wire . During that year, they also collaborated on the soundtrack for Mel Gibson 's film, The Passion of the Christ: Songs|The Passion of the Christ , they played at the Republican National Convention , and were featured in the show 60 Minutes .cite web|author=Third Day|date=|url= http://www.thirdday.com/timeline/04.htm|title=Third Day Timeline (2004)|accessdate= In January 2007, the band played one night each in Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney, Australia. http://www.96five.com/page.asp? navstr=12,260& Pagecat=260 96five FM and 7News Tour Informationdead link|date=October 2011
Recent years
Their next album, Wherever You Are (Third Day album)|Wherever You Are , debuted on the Billboard 200| Billboard 200 at No. 8.cite web|author=Billboard.com|date=|url= http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do? model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums& model.vnuArtistId=155250& model.vnuAlbumId=799210|title=Billboard Third Day Chart History|accessdate= It also won the band their third Grammy . This success was followed in 2006 by the release of their first holiday album, Christmas Offerings , and in 2007 with the first compilations of their hits entitled Chronology Volume 1|Chronology . Their next studio album called Revelation was released July 29, 2008. On February 28, 2008, Third Day released a statement announcing Brad Avery's departure from the band after 13 years and over 1000 concerts. http://www.ccmmagazine.com/news/headlines/11569635/ According to the official press release, Avery left the band to pursue solo projects and Third Day would not replace him, instead continuing on as a quartet.
Following Avery's departure, the band performed at the April, 2008 Papal Youth Rally at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, NY. Supporting the release of their new album Revelation (Third Day album)|Revelation , on July 29, 2008 the band appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992 TV series)|The Tonight Show with Jay Leno where they performed the album's first single Call My Name and on November 20, 2008 they appeared on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson performing the album's title track. The song This Is Who I Am off the Revelation album also appears in EA Sports NASCAR video game NASCAR 09 , though the album was released over a month after the game. " Call My Name (Third Day song)|Call My Name " hit No. 1 and was the 5th most-played song on R& R (magazine)|R& R magazine's Contemporary Christian Music|Christian CHR chart for 2008.The band also has two tracks on the soundtrack for the late 2008 release of the film "Fireproof." http://www.radioandrecords.com/Formats/Charts/YearEnd/08/Christian_CHR_songs.asp 2008 Year End Charts/Top Christian CHR songs, R& R (magazine)|R& R magazine , Retrieved January 6, 2009
Third Day was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall Of Fame on September 19, 2009. They released Live Revelations , a live CD/DVD version of the Revelation album, in April. In December 2009, Third Day was nominated for 3 Grammys : One for Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album for Live Revelations and their single "Born Again" received 2 Grammy nods for Best Gospel Performance and Best Gospel Song. They won the Best Rock or Rap award, thus winning their fourth career Grammy. Live Revelations achieved Gold status in April, becoming the band's eighth album to go gold.
Third Day was featured on Winter Jam 2010, touring alongside Newsboys , Fireflight , Tenth Avenue North , and others. After releasing the single, "Lift Up Your Face", in July, Third Day released their ninth studio album, Move (Third Day album)|Move , on October 19, 2010. On October 30 they finished the World Vision -sponsored tour "Make a Difference Tour 2010" with TobyMac , Michael W. Smith , Jason Gray (singer-songwriter)|Jason Gray and Max Lucado in Fayetteville, North Carolina|Fayetteville , North Carolina|NC . http://www.makeadifferencetour.com Make a Difference Tour Website Their song Follow Me There , off Move , is the featured as the theme song to the TLC (TV channel)|TLC Television show Sarah Palin's Alaska which debuted in 2010.
Members
Current
Mac Powell - Lead vocals, Acoustic guitar, tambourine
Mark Lee (musician)|Mark Lee - Electric guitar, backing vocals
Jason Hoard - mandolin, banjo, guitar, backing vocals (since 2010)
Past
Billy Wilkins , keyboards. Wilkins was one of the original members of Third Day, from 1991 to 1993, along with Powell and Lee. He was also with the group when Anderson and Carr joined, both of whom were still in high school at the time. He is currently an economics and management teacher near Atlanta. He has recorded with Third Day as recently as 2004, when he played "Blessed Assurance" on a project for author/speaker Max Lucado. In 2007, film footage of three of the band's earliest concerts were released on the two projects "Chronology I and II," in which Billy is included.
Geof Barkley , keyboards. Barkley (formerly of Geoff Moore and the Distance ) played keyboards on every live album in the band's history and every live show for nearly seven years. Barkley also performed on Wherever You Are . Although never officially a member of the band, Brad Avery has described Barkley as '"in the band", but he's not a "member" of Third Day, that's two different things. But he is in the band, and he plays with us live every night, and he rocks.' Barkley's background vocals in songs such as "God of Wonders" and "Took My Place" as well as "You Are So Good To Me" have become integral parts of Third Day's live sound. Barkley finished touring with Third Day on October 21, 2005 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
August McCoy , guitar.
Brad Avery , guitar. From Third Day Weblog by Third Day. "Third Day and Brad Avery have made the very difficult decision to part ways. We appreciate Brads many contributions to the band's career to date, including his work on our forthcoming album, but the time has come for us to follow our separate paths. He has been an important part of Third Day for the last 13 years as we've traveled the world together and performed over 1,000 concerts. We will miss him as a band member but he will always remain our brother and our friend. Brad is a wonderful person, gifted songwriter and talented musician. We trust that God has amazing plans for his future." Avery left the band on February 28, 2008.
Discography
Studio and live albums
Album Title
Release Date
Label
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RIAA Certification
Third Day (album)
1996
Reunion Records
-
Gold
Conspiracy No. 5
August 26, 1997
Reunion Records
50
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Time (Third Day album)
August 24, 1999
Essential Records (Christian)
63
Gold
Offerings: A Worship Album
July 11, 2000
Essential Records
66
Platinum
Come Together (Third Day album)
November 6, 2001
Essential Records
31
Gold
Offerings II: All I Have to Give
March 4, 2003
Essential Records
18
Gold
Wire (album)
May 4, 2004
Essential Records
12
Gold
Live Wire (album)
November 23, 2004
Essential Records
-
Platinum
Wherever You Are (Third Day album)
November 1, 2005
Essential Records
8
Gold
Christmas Offerings
October 17, 2006
Essential Records
78
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Chronology Volume 1
March 27, 2007
Essential Records
61
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Chronology Volume 2
August 7, 2007
Essential Records
73
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Revelation (Third Day album)
July 29, 2008
Essential Records
6
Gold
Live Revelations
April 7, 2009
Essential Records
145
Gold
Move (Third Day album)
October 19, 2010
Essential Records
9
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EPs
Album Title
Release Date
Label
Album Information
Southern Tracks
August 24, 1999
Essential Records (Christian)
Released with limited copies of Time (Third Day album)
Carry Me Home (Third Day EP)
August, 2002
Essential Records
Recorded to benefit Habitat for Humanity during the Come Together tour.
Wherever You Are Bonus CD
November, 2005
Essential Records
Released in limited quantities with purchase of Wherever You Are (Third Day album)
"" denotes releases that single did not chart "--" denotes releases the chart did not exist at that time "? " denotes the peak chart position is unknown
Other Charting Songs
The following were never officially released as singles, but charted based on airplay alone.
| Year
| Song
| Artist
| Chart
| Peak position
| Album
2009
"Run To You"
Third Day
Christian Songs
30
Revelation
Music videos
"Consuming Fire" (1996)
"You Make Me Mad" (1997)
"Your Love Oh Lord" (1999)
"Cry Out To Jesus" (2006) - The original shooting of the "Cry Out To Jesus" music video.
"Cry Out To Jesus" (Band Version) (2006) - A shooting of the "Cry Out To Jesus" music video in which the band enters the studio through one continuous shot lasting over half of the song. Released for the Chronology: Volume I DVD.
"Revelation" (2009)- Live as seen in the Live Revelations DVD.
"Lift Up Your Face" (2010)
"Children of God" (2011)
Live DVDs
The Offerings Experience (2002)
The Come Together Tour (2003)
Live Wire (2004)
Christmas Offerings (2008)
Live Revelations (2009)
Awards
American Music Awards
2008 American Music Award for Favorite Contemporary Inspirational Artist of the Year
Grammy Awards
2002 Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album of the Year for Come Together (Third Day album)|Come Together
2005 Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album of the Year for Wire (album)|Wire
2007 Grammy Award for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album of the Year for Wherever You Are (Third Day album)|Wherever You Are
2010 Grammy Award for Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album of the Year for Live Revelations
Gospel Music Awards
1998 Dove Award for Rock Album of the Year for Conspiracy No. 5
1998 Dove Award for Rock Recorded Song of the Year for "Alien"
Dove Awards of 1999|1999 Dove Award for Special Event Album of the Year for Exodus (compilation album)|Exodus
Dove Awards of 2000|2000 Dove Award for Rock Album of the Year for Time (Third Day album)|Time
Dove Awards of 2001|2001 Dove Award for Group of the Year
2001 Dove Award for Artist of the Year
2001 Dove Award for Rock Recorded Song of the Year for "Sky Falls Down"
2001 Dove Award for Praise and Worship Album of the Year for Offerings: A Worship Album
2001 Dove Award for Special Event Album of the Year for City on a Hill: Songs of Worship and Praise
Dove Awards of 2002|2002 Dove Award for Group of the Year
2002 Dove Award for Long Form Music Video of the Year for Third Day Live in Concert - The Offerings Experience
2002 Dove Award for Rock Album of the Year for Come Together (Third Day album)|Come Together
2002 Dove Award for Rock Recorded Song of the Year for "Come Together"
Dove Awards of 2003|2003 Dove Award for Group of the Year
2003 Dove Award for Rock Recorded Song of the Year for "40 Days"
2003 Dove Award for Special Event Album of the Year for City on a Hill: Sing Alleluia
Dove Awards of 2004|2004 Dove Award for Praise and Worship Album of the Year for Offerings II: All I Have to Give
2004 Dove Award for Long Form Music Video of the Year for Third Day Live in Concert, The Come Together Tour
Dove Awards of 2005|2005 Dove Award for Special Event Album of the Year for The Passion of the Christ: Songs
2005 Dove Award for Rock/Contemporary Album of the Year for Wire (album)|Wire
Year
Award
Result
2004
Rock Recorded Song of the Year ("Sing a Song")
nom
Rock Recorded Song of the Year ("You Are So Good to Me")
nom
God of Wonders ")
nom
Praise & Worship Album of the Year ( Offerings II: All I Have to Give )
won
Long Form Music Video of the Year ( Third Day Live In Concert, The Come Together Tour )
won
2005
Wire )
won
2006
Pop/ Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year ("Cry Out to Jesus")
won
Wherever You Are )
nom
Live Wire )
nom
2007
Song of the Year ("Cry Out to Jesus")
nom
Christmas Album of the Year ( Christmas Offerings )
won
2009
Group of the Year
nom
Revelation )
won
Recorded Music Packaging of the Year ( Revelation )
won
Dove Awards of 20102010
2011
Rock/ Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year ("Lift Up Your Face")
nom
Recorded Music Packaging of the Year ( Move )
won
Billboard Magazine Best of the 2000s
No. 3 Christian Albums Artist of the Decade
No. 5 Christian Songs Artist of the Decade
No. 15 Christian Song of the Decade: "Cry Out to Jesus"
No. 27 Christian Song of the Decade: "Call My Name"
No. 39 Christian Song of the Decade: "You Are So Good to Me"
No. 43 Christian Song of the Decade: "Mountain of God"
No. 28 Christian Album of the Decade: "Wherever You Are"
No. 33 Christian Album of the Decade: "Come Together"
No. 37 Christian Album of the Decade: "Offerings: A Worship Album"
No. 39 Christian Album of the Decade: "Offerings II: All I Have to Give"
References
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External links
Commons category
Official website| http://www.thirdday.com/
http://www.premier.tv/? void=77917 Interview with Third Day at Premier.tv
MusicBrainz artist|id=93585c1b-ec0f-4d47-9cae-bd8ebcc52e9f|name=Third Day
Third day discography Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Christian rock groups from Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Music of Atlanta, Georgia Category:Southern rock musical groups Category:Georgia Music Hall of Fame inductees
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