Meadowlark Sampler 1986

Description

Meadowlark Sampler 1986 is a multi-artist sampler album featuring instrumental pieces only, released on Meadowlark Records ‎in 1986, manufactured, marketed and distributed by Sparrow Records. The album was part of the Meadowlark Series, a series of contemplative instrumental albums launched by Sparrow Records in late 1985, sub-titled “Music without words for thoughts without limits” and later ammended to “Music for your personal retreat“.

The ten tracks on the sampler album were lifted from five Meadowlark albums released in 1986, Empty Canvas by John Michael Talbot (“guitar with small ensemble“), InnerMission by Richard Souther (“synthesizer realizations“), Peace in the Puzzle by Amy Shreve (“solo harp compositions“), New Night by Billy Smiley of White Heart fame (“flugelhorn with additional instrumentation“), as well as Heartsongs by Hadley Hockensmith of Koinonia fame (“guitar with additional instrumentation“).

LP tracklist:

Side One
A1. Hadley Hockensmith – “For My Friend”
A2. Amy Shreve – “Diamonds From Dust”
A3. John Michael Talbot – “Lilies Of The Field”
A4. Richard Souther – “Innermission”
A5. Billy Smiley – “Living With A Dream”

Side Two
B1. Amy Shreve – “Invocation”
B2. Billy Smiley – “All The Crying Eyes”
B3. John Michael Talbot – “See My Servant”
B4. Hadley Hockensmith – “As The Deer”
B5. Richard Souther – “It Was You After All”

Note: Simultaneously released on cassette, 12-inch vinyl LP, and CD by Meadowlark Records.

A full-page advertisement for the multi-artist album Meadowlark Sampler 1986 was featured in the November 1986 issue of CCM Magazine.