Their second guitarist Matt Odmark joined some time later.
Some of the first songs they wrote together were for music and recording classes they were taking at the time. Charlie Lowell first met Dan Haseltine an pursuing a career in music together was not necessarily their original goal. Dan Haseltine (lead vocals), Stephen Mason (lead guitars), Charlie Lowell (piano and keyboard) and Matt Bronleewe (guitar) formed Jars of Clay at Greenville College, in Greenville, Illinois in the early 1990s.
