Declaration (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Christian/Gospel  »  Contemp. Christian
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• Release Date: September 25, 2001
• Label: Sparrow Records
• UPC: 724385177026
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105788954
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #5938 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #15869 in Christian/Gospel (See Top 100 Christian/Gospel Bestsellers)
• #16602 in Contemp. Christian (See Top 100 Contemp. Christian Bestsellers)

Personnel includes: Steven Curtis Chapman (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, marimba, percussion); Carl Marsh (arranger); Randy Pearce (acoustic & electric guitars); London Session Orchestra (strings); Chris Mosher (Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, programming, background vocals); Bernie Herms (synthesizer); Leland Sklar, Joey Canaday (bass); Will Denton (drums, percussion); Eric Darken (percussion); Scott Sheriff, Gene Miller, Michael Mellet, Ashley Anderson, Nathan Barber, Caroline Bishop (background vocals).

Producers include: Steven Curtis Chapman, Brown Bannister.

Engineers include: Steve Bishir, Patrick Kelly, Geoff Foster.

Recorded at The Sound Kitchen, Laundry Room, Franklin, Tennessee; Air Lyndhurst Studios, London, England.

DECLARATION was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album.

Steven Curtis Chapman has been one of the leading lights of Christian rock for quite some time. Before the late-'90s crop of spiritually oriented rockers arrived on the scene, Chapman was working in a far less crowded (and less precedented) field to make friendly neighbors of effervescent rock-pop and faith-based messages. DECLARATION is clearly the work of a man who's been at it long enough to have developed a style at once complex and seemingly (deceptively) effortless. The carefree, celebratory feel of the title tune and the roadhouse blues-rock guitar riffs of "Jesus is Life" are contrasted by the moody, atmospheric "Bring it On" and the gentle, piano-based ballad "When Love Takes You In." But regardless of stylistic mode, it's obvious that Chapman has got every side of the Christian-rock realm down pat.

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