ding contract with <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle,_Washington" title="Seattle, Washington" class="mw-redirect">Seattle</a>-based <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian" title="Christian">Christian</a> label <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_and_Nail_Records" title="Tooth and Nail Records" class="mw-redirect">Tooth and Nail Records</a>. By 2000, however, Carrabba had begun working on his own project <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_Confessional" title="Dashboard Confessional">Das