''Empty'' is the debut studio album by American Christian rock band Tait and was the first of three solo albums released by members of dc Talk following their 2001 hiatus to work on solo projects. This album features

Pete Stewart Pete Stewart is a singer, guitarist, songwriter and producer from Seattle, Washington. He is the lead singer and guitarist of Grammatrain, was the lead singer for The Accident Experiment, and is the former guitarist of Tait. Stewart released ...

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Grammatrain Grammatrain is an alternative rock band from Seattle, Washington who were active in the Christian rock industry in the 1990s. After disbanding in 1998, the group reunited as a mainstream act in 2009 and released their third full-length album ent ...

, who is absent in the next album. Several songs are influenced by the passing of Michael Tait's late father Nathel, for whom the band is named. The advance pre-release copy for this album contained slightly different mixes to the released CD and omitted the track "Altars" as well as both hidden tracks. "Altars" is the only song from this album to be turned into a music video; "Loss For Words" was featured on the soundtrack for the movie ''

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''. There are two hidden tracks on this CD, one an instrumental piece that appears after the closing track "Unglued," the other in the pregap (or "zero" index) before the opening track "Alibi," which can be accessed by pressing the 'rewind' button on the CD player when track one begins. The disc scans back 6 minutes and 48 seconds into negative numbers revealing answering machine messages with Michael Tait doing various character impersonations. There is also a short joke-oriented piece in this hidden track.

Track listing

Personnel

Tait *

Michael Tait Michael DeWayne Tait (born May 18, 1966) is an American contemporary Christian music artist. Michael Tait met Toby McKeehan in 1984 when he was in high school. Both Toby and Michael met Kevin Max while attending Liberty University in the late 1 ...

– vocals * Pete Stewart – keyboards, programming, guitars * Lonnie Chapin – bass * Chad Chapin – drums Additional musicians * Carl Herrgesell – keyboards * Mike Linney – programming *

Michael W. Smith Michael Whitaker Smith (born October 7, 1957) is an American musician who has charted in both contemporary Christian and mainstream charts. His biggest success in mainstream music was in 1991 when " Place in This World" hit No. 6 on the '' ...

– piano (13) *

John Mark Painter John Mark Painter (born c. 1967) is an American multi-instrumental musician, composer and arranger. He is best known for his role, with his wife, singer Fleming McWilliams, in the rock duo, Fleming and John. Painter grew up in Miami, and beg ...

– string arrangements * The Love Sponge Orchestra – strings Production * Michael Tait – producer * Pete Stewart – producer, engineer * Mark Heimmerman – additional vocal production (4, 7, 10) * Greg Ham – executive producer * Mark Nicholas – executive producer, A&R direction * F. Reid Shippen – engineer, mixing (5, 8, 11) * Dan Shike – additional engineer * Todd Robbins – additional engineer, mixing (13) *

Chris Lord-Alge Chris Lord-Alge is an American mix engineer. He is the brother of both Tom Lord-Alge and Jeff Lord-Alge, both of whom are also audio engineers. Chris and Tom are known for their abundant use of dynamic compression for molding mixes that play wel ...

– mixing (1, 3, 7) * Bryan Lenox – mixing (4, 12) * Brian Tankersley – mixing (6, 10) * Shawn Andrews – digital editing *

Ted Jensen Ted Jensen (born September 19, 1954) is an American mastering engineer, known for having mastered many recordings, including the Eagles' ''Hotel California'', Green Day's '' American Idiot'' and Norah Jones' ''Come Away with Me''. Biography T ...

– mastering at Sterling Sound, New York City * Richard Dodd – additional mastering * Scott McDaniel – art direction * Room 120 – artwork, design * Kristin Barlowe – photography * Woodland Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee – recording location * The Dungeon Studios, Nashville, Tennessee – recording location * Fun Attic Studio, Franklin, Tennessee – recording location

References

Tait (band) albums 2001 albums ForeFront Records albums {{christian-album-stub