Fallow Ground, Jan Krist’s highly anticipated new CD is available now at shows and through cdbaby.com.

This CD was a long time coming and includes the songs : Flew Away, Burn Down Love, Never Was Enough, Fallow Ground, Jesus Saves, So Sweet that it Burns, Guilt and Shame, Charcoal Sky, Mama was a Beauty, Auld Langsine, The Moon’s an Orange Boat, In God’s Name (what did we do in..), Sunday Morning & A Song for Hard Times.

Fallow Ground is a thoughtful mapping of the past six years +, with the kind of lyrical power we have come to expect from this acclaimed singer-songwriter.

Tracks feature performances by many of Krist’s favorite collaborators; Annie Capps & Jim Bizer of the Yellow Room Gang, Alan Finkbeiner and Kenny Meeks.

There are also a number of newcomers to the mix; Rod Capps, Joel Gragg, Lauren Bittinger, Jason Dennie, Michael “Bear” Clare and Warsaw Symphony Cellist, Dan Zombrano.

Jan along with her husband and musical partner, Alan Finkbeiner, started this CD in Livonia MI at Trinity House Theatre 4 years ago when they recorded a live solo concert of Jan’s music. Plans for the CD were put aside when Jan’s mother was diagnosed with lung cancer 2 months after the recording was made. This loss followed by a move to Fort Wayne, IN and a list of major life events strung closely together left the “Trinity” sessions in limbo.

Jan held out hope of including some of the Trinity session on “Fallow Ground”, but  ”The writing was on the wall,”

she said. “It was just too much on top of so much. Due to initial recording problems followed by computer problems (followed by a much needed upgrade), retrieval of  files from the session have been made difficult and time consuming. While we hope we can recover them at some point we decided to go ahead and re-record some of the same songs along with others written over the last 4 years.

We tried to hold on to the original seed of the Trinity session in some ways. Several songs are produced with only guitar and vocal.

All of this is why I wrote the song ‘Fallow Ground’ and why I named this CD ‘Fallow Ground’.

Every time we  tried to finish this CD life took a turn and plowed the whole thing back under. It has been very frustrating to us , but I have to believe that somehow … it’s  what was meant to be… That in the long run this recording is richer and sweeter for having spent all that time waiting.

I love these songs and I love the tone of this record. It’s a real blessing to be able to finally get these tunes out! ”

Holders of the ‘Trinity Bootleg’ can trade their proxi discs in for a copy of ‘Fallow Ground’ starting mid July.

Watch for concert dates in your area.