Chris Low is generally ready to admit that he has no idea what he’s doing. This does not alarm him. In fact, he embraces the uncertainty of his calling. What he’s managed to figure out so far is the story he tells folks who ask him why he’s a musician.
For years Chris has seen the way music can change people. He’s always had a reverence for this power, which he considers to be part of how God moves in the world. But learning how to play music and write songs was only the beginning.
After starting a band in high school, and subsequently mourning its premature death as he began college, Chris scrambled to reassemble a team of super-Christians who would rock the Jesus into anyone who would listen. After this inevitably failed, he settled for some folks who seemed to like God okay and knew all of Led Zeppelin’s best tunes. Through his college years, Chris wrestled through the question of what music was supposed to do for people, and in the process, his band starting making some headway as something deeper than a Rock n’ Roll outfit. After college, Chris took a job directing music at a church in New Jersey, right around the corner from where he grew up. While he continued along the Christian rock path, he also tackled the challenge of leading a congregation in worship every Sunday (and whenever else they felt like calling him). The interface of these two musical mediums, the popular and the sacred, led him to his current state of sublime confusion.