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==Biography== In 1988, Jacob's Trouble formed and released an independent EP, ''Jacob's Trouble''.<ref name="auto">{{Citation|title=The Cavern Conversations - Jerry and Steve's Story|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqzEl4bsf48|language=en|access-date=September 25, 2021}}</ref> In 1989, Jacob's Trouble released their debut album which was produced by [[Terry Scott Taylor|Terry Taylor]], ''[[Door into Summer (album)|Door into Summer]]''. It is a mixture of original numbers and [[cover version]]s of songs by [[the Beatles]] and [[the Monkees]].<ref name="auto"/> A year later, the band released their second album, ''Knock, Breathe, Shine''. The band received notice at the time for the song "About Sex", a song about the proper role of sex in society from a [[Christianity|Christian]] perspective. Fearing a [[fundamentalist]] label, the band opted to remove the song from the album and replaced it with the more [[ambiguous]] "About Sex, Part 2".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Davison|first=Jerry|date=March 3, 2017|title=Jacob's Trouble: All JT songs ranked by the fans!|url=https://jacobstrouble1.blogspot.com/2017/03/all-jt-songs-ranked-by-fans.html|access-date=September 25, 2021|website=Jacob's Trouble}}</ref> Despite this, the album was the group's bestselling record. Prior to touring while promoting ''Knock Breathe Shine,'' the group added Ron Cochran on drums and guitarist Keith Johnston, allowing Davison to become the band's principal singer. One of their songs, "These Thousand Hills", was given much wider exposure when [[Third Day]] performed a cover of the song on their album ''Offerings''. In 1992, Jacob's Trouble released the album ''...let the truth run wild!'' with producer [[Mark Heard]]. Near the end of the tour for ''...let the truth run wild'' Blackburn left the band. The band went on to record one more record, the self-titled and self-produced ''Jacob's Trouble''. The band split after their fourth album and its subsequent tour. ''Diggin' Up Bones'', a collection of "rarities", was released in 1994 and included the song, "About Sex". The group reunited briefly in 1998 to record "Step by Step" for ''The Jacob's Trouble Sampler Pak'' compilation album. Jerry Davison recorded the album ''Uberpop!'' under the name sideways8 in 1998 and in the early 2000s occasionally released songs digitally. He currently resides in Uganda; he and his wife serve as Family Mentors at The Amazima School.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Meet Our Team|url=https://amazima.org/about-us/meet-our-team/|access-date=September 25, 2021|website=Amazima Ministries|language=en-US}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=August 2023}} Mark Blackburn released two solo albums, ''Flowerchild'' (1996) and ''The Continuing Adventures of....'' (1997). Blackburn is pastor of a church, Silver Comet Baptist Church,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Silver Comet Baptist Church - Dallas, GA|url=https://www.yelp.com/biz/silver-comet-baptist-church-dallas|access-date=September 25, 2021|website=Yelp|language=en}}</ref> in his hometown of Dallas, Georgia. In 2014, the original three members, Davison, Blackburn, and Atwell, played two reunion concerts in Dallas, Georgia for the 25th anniversary of ''Door into Summer''. They were joined by Nathan Blackburn and Erik Davison, sons of Mark and Jerry respectively, as well as Darryl Johnson, all of whom provided additional instrumentation. They performed the album in its entirety for the first time along with some selections from ''Knock Breathe Shine'', and two covers. A bootleg of the show received a limited digital and CD release. On March 21, 2021, the band launched a new live project, ''The Cavern Sessions,'' which was released one track at a time on their YouTube channel with plans for a possible digital release upon the projects completion.{{cn|date=September 2023}}
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