CD Details
- Released: August 25, 2009
- Label: Sparrow
Entertainment Reviews:
Entertainment Weekly - 5/31/02, p.109
"...There's sure enough stylistic doversity - American Celtic rock, and Lanoisesque chamber music, as well as Sunday-morning solemnity - to make LEGACY transcend your average trip down Methodist memory lane..." -
Rating: B
Tracks:
- 1.This Is My Father's World
- 2.My Jesus, I Love Thee
- 3.Softly and Tenderly
- 4.I Need Thee Every Hour / Nothing But the Blood
- 5.What You Already Own
- 6.It Is Well With My Soul / The River's Gonna Keep on Rolling
- 7.Do You Remember the Time
- 8.Fields of Plenty / Be Still My Soul
- 9.Imagine / Sing the Wondrous Love of Jesus
- 10.Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
- 11.Fairest Lord Jesus
- 12.Holy, Holy, Holy
- 13.What a Friend We Have in Jesus / Old Rugged Cross / How Great Thou Art
- 14.Marching to Zion
Product Description:
Personnel includes: Amy Grant (vocals); Vince Gill (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, dobro, mandolin); Alison Krauss (vocals); Gordon Kennedy (acoustic & electric guitars); Biff Watson, Richard Bennett, Mac McAnally (acoustic guitar); Kenny Greenberg, Tom Britt (electric guitar); Stuart Duncan (fiddle); John Catchings (cello); Sam Levine (pennywhistle); Jim Hoke (harmonica); Tim Akers (accordion, Hammond B-3 organ, synthesizer); Pete Wasner (piano, synthesizer); John Jarvis, Michael Omartian (piano); Leland Sklar, Michael Rhodes (bass); Chad Cromwell, Dan Meedham (drums); Eric Darken (percussion); Nashville String Machine; London Session Orchestra.
Recorded at East Iris Studio, The Parlor and Oceanway Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, and Air Lyndhurst, London, England.
This limited edition of LEGACY: HYMNS & FAITH includes a bonus DVD video directed by Ken Carpenter.
Personnel includes: Amy Grant (vocals); Vince Gill (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, dobro, mandolin); Alison Krauss (vocals); Gordon Kennedy (acoustic & electric guitars); Biff Watson, Richard Bennett, Mac McAnally (acoustic guitar); Kenny Greenberg, Tom Britt (electric guitar); Stuart Duncan (fiddle); John Catchings (cello); Sam Levine (pennywhistle); Jim Hoke (harmonica); Tim Akers (accordion, Hammond B-3 organ, synthesizer); Pete Wasner (piano, synthesizer); John Jarvis, Michael Omartian (piano); Leland Sklar, Michael Rhodes (bass); Chad Cromwell, Dan Meedham (drums); Eric Darken (percussion); Nashville String Machine; London Session Orchestra.
Recorded at East Iris Studio, The Parlor and Oceanway Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, and Air Lyndhurst, London, England.
Audio Mixer: Steve Bishir.
Photographer: Richard Seagraves.
Long before the Christian pop movement began exploding in the late '90s, Amy Grant was at the forefront of the movement, one of the first singers to show that pop music sensibilities could be successfully mated with spiritual concerns outside the realm of gospel music. Ironically, it's the gospel tradition that Grant returns to on LEGACY: HYMNS & FAITH in order to celebrate her 25th anniversary as a recording artist (hard to believe it's been so long, isn't it?).
Though she draws mostly on traditional spiritual material here, as the album's title indicates, the production is consistently innovative. The atmospheric treatment given to "Softly and Tenderly" wouldn't have sounded out on place on Emmylou Harris's Daniel Lanois-produced WRECKING BALL album, and it's a safe bet that "My Jesus, I Love Thee" has seldom been given a full-blown Celtic treatment before. Grant's obvious committment to this material is matched step by step here by her mercurial artistic spirit.
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