GREENBELT 2009: Festival banks on sixpence

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 @ 00:00

by Jude Adam

THE FOUNDERS of Sixpence None The Richer, Matt Slocum and Leigh Nash, began their partnership in the early ’90s as teenagers growing up together in New Braunfels, Texas.

Their first couple of albums, The Fatherless & the Widow and This Beautiful Mess, established the band’s sweet sound, and a small but perfectly formed fan-base. It also put the band in that strange box where they were not quite Christian enough for the CCM (Contemporary Christian ...

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