Tenth Avenue North – Christmas Time Machine

CCM: Do you think Tenth Avenue North will ever do a legitimate R&B album now?
MD: It’s possible. This is Decade The Halls Vol. 1. We’ve talked about a Volume Two possibly focusing on one decade. Decade The Halls Vol. 2, the 80’s? Vol. 3, the 90’s? We could do the whole thing again and just pick different styles—there’s a lot we left on the table. We didn’t even do a disco track for the 70’s. 80’s, we could do hair-metal.

[Thinking aloud] For Vol. 1, we did a Simple Minds kind-of thing. 90’s, we obviously went Boyz II Men—but we could do Hip Hop for the 90’s. Early 2000’s, we could do a real sad Garth Brooks’y country thing. Or, we could do a Vertical Horizon style…or even a Justin Timberlake/N’Sync thing. But, come on, N’Sync is just wanting to be Boyz II Men [laughs].

CCM: Other than more Christmas volumes at some point down the line, what can we expect from Tenth Avenue North in the near future?
MD: Just continuing on the track that we’re on. We’re doing a tour with MercyMe in the spring. Then, I don’t know. I think we might do a ten-year anniversary of Over And Underneath, our first national release that came out in May 2008. It’s our only Gold record. We are doing something with that with We Are Messengers. Musically, I’m not sure. We may do a fourth single off of Followers? We may put out the song “Afraid?”

We’ll also be working on music. No plans to disband or anything [laughs].

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