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By My Spirit: A Musical Gathering of Praise (1984)
By My Spirit: A Musical Gathering of Praise is a various artists compilation album that was released in 1984 on Myrrh/Word Records. The...
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Back to the Rock! (1981)
Back to the Rock! is a Christian music compilation sampler album that was released in 1981 on Maranatha! Music's A&S Records label. The...
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Hymns From the Ryman (1997)
Hymns From the Ryman is a project album by Christian singer - songwriter Gary Chapman , released on August 25, 1997 by Word Records...
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Shelter (1996)
Shelter is the fourth studio album by Christian singer - songwriter Gary Chapman , released on February 27, 1996 by Reunion Records. The album is produced by Michael Omartian. Chapman and Omartian continue the success of The Light Inside with Shelter , with its country pop mix and opens the album with an a cappella version of the hymn "Great Is Thy Faithfulness." Amy Grant provides guest vocals on the album's first single "One of Two" and Alison Krauss provides guest vocal
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The Light Inside (1994)
The Light Inside is the third studio album by Christian singer - songwriter Gary Chapman , released on May 26, 1994 by Reunion Records. The album is produced by Michael Omartian. In what is now considered a "return" rather than a "comeback," Chapman released The Light Inside and became a best seller and critically acclaimed. It is his first new album in seven years and it's his most religious album since Sincerely Yours , but has some of the country pop elements of Everyday
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Songs From the Loft (1993)
Songs from the Loft is a various artists compilation album released on September 20, 1993 by Reunion Records and, at the time,...
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Everyday Man (1987)
Everyday Man is the second studio album by Christian singer - songwriter Gary Chapman . It was originally released in 1987 and it is his first album on Reunion Records. Chapman produced the album with Brown Bannister and Mark Wright. It was released as a mainstream country pop album. RCA Records released the album in 1988 and featured the songs "When We're Together (Love's So Strong)" and the title song. Both songs charted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Chapman c
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Jan 27, 20242 min read
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Happenin' (1982)
Happenin' is a live album by Christian singer - songwriter Gary Chapman . It was released in late 1982 and is the final album on Benson Records' Lamb & Lion label. It was produced and mixed by DeGarmo & Key (Eddie DeGarmo and Dana Key). The live album was recorded live at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville, TN on April 26, 1982. Chapman performs two early songs that he would later re-record in his 1994 album The Light Inside : "Treasure" and "Finally." The
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Sincerely Yours (1981)
Sincerely Yours is the debut studio album by Christian singer - songwriter Gary Chapman . It was released in 1981 on Benson Records' Lamb & Lion label. The album was produced by DeGarmo & Key (Eddie DeGarmo & Dana Key) and Joe Hardy. Chapman primarily started out as a songwriter for Paragon Music writing songs for Amy Grant , Sandi Patty and Jamie Owens-Collins among others. After having written the hit song "Father's Eyes" recorded by Grant in 1979 and in 1981 winning a D
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Gary Chapman
Gary Winther Chapman (born August 19, 1957) is an American contemporary Christian music singer-songwriter and former television talk show...
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The Steve Camp Collection (1995)
The Steve Camp Collection is a compilation album of Christian singer - songwriter Steve Camp , released in 1995 on Sparrow Records. Released on 2 CDs and 2 cassette tapes, it is an exhaustive "best of" career collection from Camp featuring 32 songs including tracks on his previous Sparrow albums, plus "Farther and Higher" from his 1981 album For Every Man , the original recording of "Light Your Candle" from his 1984 album It's a Dying World , the 1990 recording of "Run to th
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Jan 26, 20243 min read
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The Best of Steve Camp: My Utmost for His Highest (1995)
The Best of Steve Camp: My Utmost for His Highest  is a compilation album of Christian singer - songwriter Steve Camp , released in 1995 on Sparrow Records through CEMA Special Markets, a division of Capitol Records. The CD was sold at Christian bookstores and mainstream music stores and sold at a reduced price. The compilation album is in no way connected to the Oswald Chambers-themed album of the same name that was released in the same year. A comprehensive 2-CD compilatio
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Jan 24, 20242 min read
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Mercy in the Wilderness (1994)
Mercy in the Wilderness is the 12th studio album by Christian singer - songwriter Steve Camp . It was released in late 1994 and it is the second and final album on Warner Alliance Records, Warner Bros. Christian/Gospel label. The album is produced by Camp and Michael Omartian. The album is more praise and worship focused than his last album Taking Heaven by Storm or any of Camp's previous albums. Camp does an updated recording of his 1986 number one hit "He Covers Me." A ma
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Taking Heaven by Storm (1993)
Taking Heaven by Storm is the eleventh studio album by Christian singer - songwriter Steve Camp . It was released in 1993 and it is the first of two albums on Warner Alliance Records, Warner Bros. Christian/Gospel label. The album is produced by Michael Omartian. This is Camp's first time working with Omartian ( Amy Grant , The Imperials , Rod Stewart, Christopher Cross) and the album would be very successful with a series of Christian radio singles that charted on both the
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The Ministry Years 1980 - 1982, Volume 2 (1988)
The Ministry Years 1980 - 1982, Volume 2  is the second of a two-volume posthumous compilation album series of Christian singer - songwriter Keith Green , released on October 3, 1988 by Sparrow Records. The 2 CD/2 cassette set is compiled and produced by Bill Maxwell. Volume 2 covers the years 1980 to 1982 from his two Pretty Good label albums So You Wanna Go Back to Egypt and Songs for the Shepherd , as well as tracks from his posthumous albums The Prodigal Son  and Jesus
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Jan 20, 20243 min read
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The Ministry Years 1977 - 1979, Volume 1 (1987)
The Ministry Years 1977 - 1979, Volume 1 is the first of a two-volume posthumous compilation album series of Christian singer - songwriter Keith Green , released on October 23, 1987 by Sparrow Records. The 2 CD/2 cassette set is compiled and produced by Bill Maxwell. Volume 1 covers the years 1977 to 1979 from his two Sparrow albums For Him Who Has Ears to Hear and No Compromise , as well as tracks from his posthumous albums The Prodigal Son and Jesus Commands Us to Go! ,
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Jan 19, 20244 min read
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Jesus Commands Us to Go! (1984)
Jesus Commands Us to Go! is the second and final posthumous album of Christian singer - songwriter Keith Green , released on July 20, 1984 by Pretty Good Records. The album is produced by Bill Maxwell with widow Melody Green compiling more unreleased material, just like on the first posthumous album The Prodigal Son . One of the songs titled "Run to the End of the Highway" was the first song that Keith and Melody Green wrote together back in 1974. Melody wrote in the liner n
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Jan 17, 20242 min read
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The Prodigal Son (1983)
The Prodigal Son is the first posthumous album of Christian singer - songwriter Keith Green , released on August 15, 1983 by Pretty Good Records. The album is compiled and produced by Bill Maxwell with Green's widow Melody Green as assistant producer and was released months after the first posthumous compilation album I Only Want to Take You There was released. Melody assembled it from unreleased material from recordings from 1977 up to 1983 and features some live intros on
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Jan 16, 20242 min read
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I Only Want to See You There (1983)
I Only Want to See You There is the first posthumous compilation album of Christian singer - songwriter Keith Green , released on March 21, 1983 by Sparrow Records. The album is compiled and produced by Bill Maxwell. The title comes from Green's track "Song to My Parents" in which he introduces the song and talks about his parents blending into the studio track of the song from his 1977 album For Him Who Has Ears to Hear . This collection is pretty much like his first compil
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Jan 16, 20242 min read
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Songs for the Shepherd (1982)
Songs for the Shepherd is the fourth and final studio album by Christian singer - songwriter Keith Green . It was released independently on Pretty Good Records on April 12, 1982. It is Green's final album completed before the plane crash took his life in late July 1982. He was 28 years old. The album is produced by Green and Bill Maxwell. Green was interviewed by CCM Magazine about the album, a couple of months before his death, and said that Songs for the Shepherd is "an
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Jan 16, 20243 min read
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