Signs Of Life (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Christian/Gospel  »  Contemp. Christian
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• Release Date: September 3, 1996
• Label: Sparrow Records
• UPC: 724385155420
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105788989
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #57177 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #17019 in Christian/Gospel (See Top 100 Christian/Gospel Bestsellers)
• #16952 in Contemp. Christian (See Top 100 Contemp. Christian Bestsellers)

Personnel: Steven Curtis Chapman (vocals, acoustic, 12-string acoustic, acoustic slide & electric guitars, dobro, lap steel guitar, mandolin); Gordon Kennedy, Kenny Greenberg (acoustic & electric guitars); Phil Madeira (dobro, Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Jerry Douglas (lap steel guitar); Stuart Duncan (fiddle); The Nashville String Machine (strings); Tommy Morgan (harmonica); Shane Keister (piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B-3 organ); Blair Masters (Wurlitzer electric piano, keyboards); Leland Sklar (bass); Chris McHugh, Steve Brewster, Chad Cromwell (drums); Eric Darken, Sam Bacco (percussion).

Producers: Brown Bannister, Steven Curtis Chapman.

Recorded at The Castle, Franklin, Tennessee and Ocean Way, Hollywood, California.

SIGNS OF LIFE was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album.

Christian Rock sensation Steven Curtis Chapman has a very personal take on the Good News. Combining bible-oriented messages with a burly rock and roll sound, the 12 songs on SIGNS OF LIFE present the fully-realized chronicle of a Christian struggling to reconcile his beliefs with the trials and tribulations of the postmodern world.

Toward this end, Chapman calls upon his knack for forceful, bluesy melodies and in-your-face arrangements bristling with bright keyboards and thick guitars. Top-shelf musicians including bassist Leland Sklar and keyboardist Shane Keister provide a solid accompaniment for multi-instrumentalist Chapman, who seems to be proficient on anything with strings.

Chapman's lyrics eschew happy-face gospel cliches in favor of a more balanced approach that emphasizes the conflicts and difficulties inherent in keeping a faith as strong as his. Songs like "Let Us Pray" and "Hold On To Jesus" exemplify this mature, realistic approach. Chapman made SIGNS OF LIFE with one ear on the Sunday sermon and one on contemporary pop radio, and it's one of the rare Christian albums to have broken into the Billboard top 20.

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