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The Ultimate Collection is a compilation album by the American singer and songwriter Michael Card, released on Sparrow Records in 2006. The double disc compilation presents an overview of Card’s mid-1980s to early-’90s work for the Sparrow label.
Singer/songwriter and author Card has been in the music business for over 25 years and has managed to release just as many albums (including other collections). This compilation is a part of a series from EMI which features other well known recording artists in the history of CCM which includes Keith Green, Twila Paris and Petra amongst others. Here we are presented with 24 songs covering a 16 year period from the years 1988 (with tracks from ‘The Beginning’) to 1994 (‘Joy In The Journey’). Mostly the songs featured deal with biblical themes, such as «The Beginning» which is based on the book of Genesis, the life of Christ in «Why?» and the Christian walk on «Celebrate The Child». Included in this compilation is, of course, Card’s best known song «El Shaddai» with its use of both the Hebrew language and English. On the whole this double album is a good representation of Michael Card’s work with its acoustic and Celtic tinges and its insightful theological lyrics. But one criticism would be that being an ultimate collection I would have liked to have seen included tracks from all his CDs. Mind you, that would have required a triple CD. [John Fisher, Cross Rhythms, October 2006]
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2CD tracklist:
Disc One
1-01. The Beginning
1-02. Lift up the Suffering Symbol
1-03. How Long?
1-04. Spirit of the Age
1-05. My Help
1-06. Heal Our Land
1-07. Joseph’s Song
1-08. Celebrate the Child
1-09. The Nazarine
1-10. The Basin and the Towel
1-11. My Love Arise
1-12. Crown Him
Disc Two
2-01. El Shaddai
2-02. Come to the Table
2-03. Why?
2-04. Known by the Scars
2-05. God’s Own Fool
2-06. Scandalon
2-07. The Final Word
2-08. Immanuel
2-09. Dreaming Jacob’s Dream
2-10. To the Mystery
2-11. That’s What Faith Must Be
2-12. Joy in the Journey
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