With a sharper sound less indebted to soft rock, it earned raves from critics and still charted at number 13 on Billboard’s album charts.
The Christmas Sessions appeared in the fall of 2005, and the band’s fourth album Coming Up to Breathearrived in April 2006. MercyMe‘s third album Undone followed one year later, and again earned the group commercial and chart success in addition to further action on the Christian and album charts, MercyMe singles “Here with Me” and “Homesick” earned play on adult contemporary radio, marking a new frontier for the band. In 2003, veteran Christian rocker Barry Graul of Whitecross joined the band as a second guitarist. But I fell in love with it immediately.”Ī rootsier album, Spoken For, followed in 2002 and also performed well on the charts it also earned the band three more Dove Awards. Millard says that the praise band involvement marked “the first time I had ever done anything with a band - just a local youth group who played for a Wednesday night service. He accepted the offer and moved at the end of his freshman year of college. Millard‘s youth pastor, who had recently moved from Millard‘s hometown of Greenville, Texas to Lakeland, Florida, invited him to work with the youth praise band. The loss caused him to look for a change and a fresh start. During Millard‘s first semester in college, he was faced with the death of his father to cancer.
With the prodding of his choir director, he was soon actively involved. But I broke both my ankles in a high school football game and that ended my career.” Due to the injury, Millard was left with an elective class to fill and reluctantly joined the only available option: choir. So naturally, that’s what I wanted to do as well. Millard recalls, “My dad and my older brother were both football players. “Although praise & worship band MercyMe was founded in 1994, vocalist Bart Millard says that the group’s birth was a process God began in him during high school.
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