Amy Grant provides one of the most aesthetically pleasing voices of the Christmas season, and like her other holiday recordings, Home for Christmas provides a collection of songs that can be enjoyed year after year. This time out, Grant relies primarily on Christian standards, all of which are delivered with honesty and beautiful arrangements. ~ ...
At the age of 22, Amy Grant took another step in her career by issuing her first Christmas album in 1983. It was a logical-enough release for a Christian performer, but also one that suggested she was an established headliner, an artist whose versions of standards like "The Christmas Song" and "Little Town" (aka "O Little Town of Bethlehem") would ...
Depending on their tastes, record buyers are likely to have had one of two different reactions when they came upon the Amy Grant compilation Collection in its initial LP and cassette releases in the summer of 1986. General music fans, aware of Grant, if at all, only for her 1985 Top 40 pop hit "Find a Way," may have wondered why this one-hit ...
Time/Life's Songs 4 Worship series gathers essential performances by some of CCM and contemporary gospel's leading lights. The Shout to the Lord volume features rousing songs like Twila Paris' "He Is Exalted," Graham Kendrick's "Shine, Jesus, Shine," Ron Kenoly's "Majesty," and Keith Green's "There Is a Redeemer." Songs by Charles LeBlanc, David ...
In the late '70s and early 80s, Amy Grant enjoyed little exposure outside of Christian circles. But that started to change in the mid-'80s, when A&M promoted her aggressively in the secular market. And in the '90s, secular audiences accounted for the vast majority of her sales. Christians were hardly the only ones buying Heart In Motion, one of ...
Streams features contemporary Christian pop and rock hits from diverse artists like Sixpence None the Richer, 4Him, and Máire Brennan with Michael McDonald. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide
Spanning the '70s through the '90s, WOW Gold styles itself as a compact history of contemporary Christian music (CCM), seeking not to define, but to sum up the genre, and showcase the range of music it encompasses in the process. One CCM star after another parades across the compilation's two discs; the only flaw is that they aren't always ...
Simple but effective songwriting marks this worship project from Amy Grant and husband Gary Chapman, who wrote these choruses for teens that gathered in their barn for youth group-style meetings. ~ Thom Granger, All Music Guide
When Behind the Eyes came out in 1997, Amy Grant had been recording for 20 years. And it was obvious that she still had a lot left to say. In contrast to the high-tech slickness that characterized some of her previous A&M efforts, the earthy Eyes finds Grant playing a lot of jangly acoustic guitar and bringing a folk appeal to her pop-rock. Most ...
If you want to know what CCM sounded like at the end of the '90s, few collections give a better idea than WOW 1999: The Year's 30 Top Christian Artists and Songs. Spanning two discs and overflowing with strong songs, the disc features nearly every major artist in the genre -- dc Talk, Jars of Clay, Michael W. Smith, Rebecca St. James, Smalltown ...
Wow 2000 collects 30 tracks from 1999's most popular contemporary Christian artists, including dc Talk, Jars of Clay, Newsboys, Audio Adrenaline, Steven Curtis Chapman, Amy Grant, and Clay Crosse with BeBe Winans and Bob Carlisle. This double-disc set is a good sampling of CCM's diverse sounds and performers. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide
It's not unusual to come away from an Amy Grant album with a feeling of hope and steadfastness in the world around, but, with this release, truly one of her best, Grant makes an unexpected departure. From the first notes of the album's opener, "1974," a song about her discovery of faith, one feels as though Grant has left behind the pop sounds of ...
Amy Grant's previous two holiday releases (1983's Christmas Album and 1992's Home for Christmas) focused on traditional tunes, so there was little for Grant to do on her third holiday album but branch out. A Christmas to Remember concentrates on contemporary and original songs -- "Christmas Can't Be Very Far Away," "'Til the Season Comes 'Round ...
Like other entries in the Songs 4 Life series, Feel the Power! contains 22 CCM anthems over the course of two discs. The compilers did an excellent job of mixing different strands of CCM -- Michael W. Smith and DC Talk sit side-by-side, as do Rich Mullins, 4Him, and Jars of Clay -- along with picking good material from the artists, making this a ...
WOW 1998: 30 Top Christian Artists & Songs is a double-disc, 30-song collection that functions as a summary of the state of CCM and contemporary gospel in 1997. Boastin a wide array of styles, from the modern pop of Jars of Clay ("Overjoyed") and the Christian rap of DC Talk ("Colored People") to the smooth sounds of Michael W. Smith ("Live the ...
Like other entries in the Songs 4 Life Series, Embrace His Grace! contains 22 CCM anthems over the course of two discs. It's not the most varied collection in the series, but it does feature enough heavy hitters -- Steven Curtis Chapman, PFR, Cece Winans, Point of Grace, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Out of the Grey, Wayne Watson, Wes King and ...
Within Amy Grant's rich catalog of sacred and secular recordings, Legacy...Hymns & Faith stands out for its thematic integrity and superb execution. Never a showy vocalist, she relies here on her familiarity with the material, most of which consists of old-time hymns, to convey the essence of each track. Her performances, bare of any extraneous ...
Time Again: Amy Grant Live is more than a memory piece; it is a shared experience. Returning to Fort Worth's Bass Hall, where she played her first paid gig in 1978, Grant manages to make even her most popular hits accessible on an individual level. The track list reads like a Billboard collection of chart-toppers, to which even those who are the ...
Conceived as a tribute to Taylor guitars, this recording manages to transcend any stereotypes of projects dedicated to the advancement of a business principle or product. That's due to the quality of the performers, the pieces they play, and the passion they bring to them. There's really not a misstep in the bunch. Guitar slingers from Russ ...
Wow: The 90s: 30 Top Christian Songs of the Decade is an excellent basic survey of CCM in the '90s, collecting 30 of the decade's biggest Christian radio hits over the course of two discs. Longtime CCM fans will probably have some, if not most, of these tracks already, but newcomers to the genre couldn't ask for a much better introduction than Wow ...
Rock of Ages...Hymns & Faith is the rare sequel that rivals the original. 2002's Legacy, Amy Grant's first collection of old-time hymns and religious material, both familiar and obscure, was a full-fledged return to inspirational material after many years of secular material, and it was an understated delight, thanks to the smart song selection ...
After a duo of detours (a youth worship record and a second Christmas offering), Grant returns with an album that doesn't even pretend to be gospel, but still reflects her ideologies. Mellower than Heart in Motion, the album sounds more like Lead Me On, but doesn't plumb its depths. ~ Thom Granger, All Music Guide
After three decades with Word Records, Amy Grant transferred her entire back catalog -- including her pop releases under A&M -- to the Christian arm of EMI. The new label home marked the occasion by issuing Greatest Hits, Grant's third single-disc anthology but the first that paid tribute to her entire Christian and mainstream repertoires as a ...
WOW 1996 collects some of that year's most popular contemporary Christian songs, including Rich Mullins' "Brother's Keeper," Amy Grant's "Children of the World," Susan Ashton's "Stand," the Newsboys' "Shine," and Phil Keaggy's "True Believers." Performances from Ray Boltz, Carman, the Anointed, and Petra are also included in this inspiring ...
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