DANIEL particularly loves: Newsboys, Jars of Clay, P.O.D., Relient K, Kutless, Falling Up, and Skillet
BETHANY particularly loves: P.O.D., Caedmon’s Call, Loreena McKennit, Enya, Falling Up, Lifehouse, Jars of Clay, The Lion King, and Bach.
Also: Anberlin, Nickel Creek, Lord of the Rings Soundtrack
They GREW UP listening to First Call, Keith Green, Scheherazade by Rimzky/Korsakov, and country music.
Reading influences also count. Tolkien! Songs about others may follow, as Bethany has a habit of reviewing books by writing lyrics about them.
The Dark Before Hope by
Daniel Powell, Bethany Powell is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Daniel and Bethany Powell are as siblings that, as a result of being thrown in together on a quest that took them across the States and down before falling into a portal to Japan, and then to Oklahoma four years later (jet lag is no joke), are now as thick as thieves.
Some of their earliest memories are of arguing away timewhile shut up in the car as their parents worked on a folk project in some guy's home studio. This likely scarred them forever, and in some twisted way brought them to recording a Lord of the Rings project in their very own living room, shutting their three younger siblings out in the bleak prairie winter winds--well, not quite, but we do throw them out of the house for hours on end.
Daniel plays bass like a solo instrument, guitar like a bassist, drums, and on this CD even plays Ent.
Bethany wedges lyrics into his brilliant musical ideas, tramples over his production, and avoids actually playing piano for accompaniment. That one track, on The Dark Before Hope...escaped her grasp! She did sing.
