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Your Love Broke Through: The Worship Songs of Keith Green is a multi-artist project featuring cover versions of songs written by the late Keith Green (October 21, 1953 – July 28, 1982), released on Sparrow Records in February 2002.
My first reaction to Your Love Broke Through: The Worship Songs of Keith Green was skepticism — do we really need yet another tribute album for this Christian music legend? Then it occurred to me that we’ve already come to the 20th anniversary of Keith Green’s tragic death, so there’s a nostalgia factor playing here. I was also reminded that it’s already been 10 years since the previous Keith Green tribute from Sparrow, No Compromise, an excellent album featuring a group of pop inspirational artists such as Michael Card, Susan Ashton, Steven Curtis Chapman, Russ Taff, and Rich Mullins. A second tribute album was released last year, entitled Start Right Here, and it featured several of today’s leading alternative artists: Bleach, Hangnail, Cadet, Starflyer 59, and MxPX to name a few. Clearly the goal of that project was to introduce Keith Green’s music to kids who probably would never touch it with a 10 foot pole.
Your Love Broke Through is still another way to share Keith Green’s music and message with a new generation, while capitalizing on the modern-worship phenomenon at the same time. If No Compromise was aimed at the inspirational-pop crowd and Start Right Here at the alternative-rock listeners, then it might be said that Your Love Broke Through is for the in-between listeners, otherwise known as Christian Hit Radio. [Russ Breimeier, CT, January 2002]
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the sheer number of tribute albums and covers of the music of one of Christian music’s most seminal artists says plenty. From the sixties to the new millennium the power of Keith Green’s music continues to touch generations.
Your Love Broke Through: The Worship Songs of Keith Green pulls together a wide range of contemporary artists paying tribute to some of the classic praise songs Green penned in his short life. Although all his works could arguably be classified as worship, this collection features some of the more popular and widely known tracks.
From Twila Paris’ rendition of «Rushing Wind», to worship leader Darlene Zschech’s «How Majestic Is Your Name», to Martin Smith’s (Delirious) «Create In Me A Clean Heart», this album retains the original message of the song while adding the stylistic fingerprints of the individual cover artist.
Perhaps the highlight of the album is the previously unfinished song, «He’s The One», completed masterfully by Michael W. Smith and Martin Smith. This track alone is worth acquiring the album.
Other tracks include: «You Are The One (How I Love You)», Jason Upton; «There Is A Redeemer», Michelle Tumes; «Your Love Broke Through», Rebecca St. James and guest vocalist Phil Keaggy; «Make My Life A Prayer To You», Matt Redman and Paul Oakley; «O Lord You’re Beautiful», featuring the original vocals of Keith Green with an added ensemble of album artists; «Draw Me», Sarah Sadler; «The Lord Is My Shepherd», Charlie Hall and Joanne Hogg; and «Lord I’m Gonna’ Love You», Chris Tomlin.
Twenty years after his death, Keith Green still lives on in the words and music that once touched a generation as it does today. [Kerry Maffeo, The Phantom Tollbooth, 11/11/2001]
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CD tracklist:
01. Rebecca St. James feat. Phil Keaggy – Your Love Broke Through – 4:06
02. Michelle Tumes – There Is A Redeemer – 3:23
03. Chris Tomlin – Lord, I’m Gonna Love You – 3:48
04. Twila Paris – Rushing Wind – 4:29
05. Michael W. Smith – There Is One – 3:45
06. Darlene Zschech – How Majestic Is Your Name – 4:04
07. Martin Smith and Jason Upton – O Lord You’re Beautiful – 3:50
08. Jason Upton – You Are The One – 3:42
09. Martin Smith – Create In Me A Clean Heart – 4:22
10. Charlie Hall and Joanne Hogg – The Lord Is My Shepherd – 4:15
11. Matt Redman and Paul Oakley – Make My Life A Prayer To You – 3:25
12. Sarah Sadler – Draw Me – 3:50
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