Originally just an aside from a random conversation, "Coincidence? Maybe..." was a passing comment that had a unique ring to J. Maier and what he thought was the theme behind who we are as a band.  We're a group made up of normal everyday people who play music and believe in God.  This leads to some interesting conversations before and after concerts with people from all walks of life and one of the conversations we often discuss is God's intervention in people's lives.  To some they say it's just coincidence, to which we reply "Maybe... but here's what we believe...".  And with that we're able to have true dialogues with people about The Gospel, what it means to be a Christian and how that only means that you're able to accept forgiveness, not that you're perfect, and the reasons behind why we play, write and sing the way that we do.  

     From the beginning, we have made an effort to keep our albums and our concerts as two very different experiences.  Whereas our live concerts are designed to draw everyone in the audience together with us for a fun, transcending, and dynamic night, our albums have been produced with the hope that they can create moments of separation from the immediacy of the surrounding world and provide personal soundtracks for some of the events of your own life.  The Fall of October (2002) was written about the early stages in of realizing a need to live life in a different way and the search and ultimate decision to become a Christian and all that it entails.  What Will Remain (2009) was conceived as a group of songs that convey a sense of changing the focus to what will last and is ultimately eternal instead of focusing on the temporal world.  Even Travis' solo project Unexpected (2006) (joined on by some of C?M's former members and good friends) had an over-arching theme of comparing our personal relationships to those of God's relationships with mankind as a whole and as individuals.  
     Then came the 2010 release, The Essence Project (2010). This was the first project recorded with the two man acoustic duo. It was during these sessions that the ideas we had about the future music development of the band became reality. These 7 songs were either written specifically for our new line-up or they were fan favorites that we wanted to rearrange with the concept of using only what was Essential to either the music or message of each song.
     The ever-increasing positive support of the duo concerts and the EP encouraged us to finally undertake the project we had long been wanting to see happen… our newest project coming on November, 25th that will be the ultimate C?M package! It will have a Live DVD, Live concert CD, and a batch of brand new studio cuts written only after the experiences gained over the year of playing as a duo and working out the style and substance of the new lineup.  "THE EVIDENCE VOL 1" is the most ambitious project we've ever attempted and we're VERY pleased with the way it's turned out.  So much so that we've never had a project we've wanted so badly to put into people's hands as this one!