Grant, Amy

Vinyl Records and Rare LPs:

	A Christmas Album New - Vinyl - MSB 6768 Sealed 1983 Gatefold Christmas Album. more
	Collection Used - Vinyl - SP 3900 1986 Original With Shrink Wrap Still Intact And Custom Song Hype Sticker. Cut Corner. more
	In Concert Sealed - Vinyl - MSB 6668 Sealed 1981 Record Club Pressing. more
	Lead Me On Used - Vinyl - SP 5199 1988 Original. Minor Edge Creasing, And Small Corner Ding. "It's Not Unusual To Come Away From An Amy Grant Album With A Feeling Of Hope And Steadfastness In The World Around, But, With This Release, Truly One Of Her Best, Grant Makes An Unexpected Departure. From The First Notes Of The Album's Opener, "1974," A Song About Her Discovery Of Faith, One Feels As Though Grant Has Left Behind The Pop Sounds Of This Album's Predecessor, Unguarded, And Entered Territory More Familiar To Her Nashville Roots. The Music Is More Organic; Acoustic Guitars Play Amid Mandolins, Combined, At Times, With Their Electric Cousins, Joined With Lyrics That Possess Both Wisdom And Wondering, While The Production Gives This Fully Digital Recording The Warmth Of An Lp On A Turntable. Although It's Hard To Single Out Specific Songs From Such A Solid Collection, There Are Certainly Highlights For The Listener To Savor. The Title Track Sings Of A Faith That Calls For Complete Trust, While "Shadows" Speaks Of Life Choices And Being Cognizant Of One's Darker Side. "Saved By Love" And "If These Walls Could Speak" Are A Celebration Of Family And The Ties That Bind Told In Haunting And Somewhat Melancholic Ways, Whereas "Faithless Heart," One Of The More Personal Portraits On The Album, Talks Of Being Drawn Away From One's Commitment To Another In Times Of Trouble, And Finding The Strength To Stay. "All Right," A Tune Spiced With The Flavor Of Southern Rock, Plays As An Anthem For The Troubled Soul In Need Of Fulfillment, While The Album's Closer, "Say Once More," Generates A Longing In Its Lyrics For Finding The Love Of Another (Not Necessarily Romantic), And Wanting Only To Be Enriched By Knowing The Person More In Life, Whether Near Or Far. As Much As Her Fans Are Used To Finding Themselves Within Her Music, Along With Solutions To Life's Sometimes Difficult Problems, Grant Uses This Album To Ask The Questions, While Leaving The Answers To A Higher Power. A Stellar Outing That Received The 1988 Grammy Award For Best Gospel Performance By A Female." Daniel Malich, AMG more
	Lead Me On Used - Vinyl - SP 5199 Beautiful 1988 Original With Custom Hype Sticker On Front And Gold Promo Stamp On Back. Includes Custom Inner Sleeve. more
	Lead Me On Used - Vinyl - SP 5199 Beautiful 1988 Original With Custom Inner Sleeve. Record Appears Glossy, Unplayed. more
	Straight Ahead Used - Vinyl - SPCN 7-01-675706-4 1984 US original with custom printed inner sleeve & photo print insert. Light discoloring to cover. "Straight Ahead may sound like conventional Christian Contemporary light pop today, but when the album was released in 1984, it was an aggressively contemporary new direction for Amy Grant, the mild-voiced darling of the CCM industry. Grant's previous albums had been dominated by more or less easy-listening gospel tunes, with only a handful of slightly harder-edged exceptions (e.g. "Too Late" on the 1980 album Never Alone, "I Have Decided" on 1982's Age to Age). But with Straight Ahead, Grant and her faithful producer Brown Bannister heated up her sound with unprecedented quantities of electric guitar and synthesizer (supplied by emerging CCM icon Michael W. Smith, who also handled much of the songwriting). The album became an instant industry classic, and songs like the snappy "Where Do You Hide Your Heart," the worshipful piano ballad "Thy Word," and the Grammy winning rocker "Angels" have become staples in youth-group sing-alongs across the country. Straight Ahead was an important precursor to the even more aggressive 1985 album Unguarded, which produced Grant's first major crossover hit, "Love Will Find a Way"." All Music Guide – Evan Cater. more
	Straight Ahead New - Vinyl - 676706 Sealed 1984 Original With Poster. The Album That Saw Grant Cross Over From Her Contemporary Christian Roots Into Mainstream Pop, Resulting In Her Signing To A&M. more
	Unguarded New - Vinyl - SP 5060 Sealed 1985 Original With Custom Hype Sticker On Shrink. more
	Unguarded Used - Vinyl - 7-01-680606-5 1985 US pressing on the Myrrh label. This is the "W" cover with small "W" on spine. more
	Unguarded Used - Vinyl - 7-01-680606-5 1985 US original; This has the "R" cover variant, one of four. Front and rear cover has some pull/tears at bottom edge. "Unguarded, Amy Grant's sixth regular studio album (and ninth album overall), marked her big pop move. After 1982's Age to Age and 1984's Straight Ahead went gold despite distribution restricted mainly to Christian bookstores, Grant's management forged a distribution deal with major independent A&M Records for Unguarded, and the album was backed with a promotional campaign and national tour in keeping with a front-line pop act. Grant's producer, Brown Bannister, had been listening carefully to the pop charts throughout her career, and here he seemed determined to give her the kind of sound that would compete successfully on the secular airwaves of the day. For the mid-'80s, that meant synthesizers, programmed drums, and more synthesizers. And Bannister succeeded. It was easy to imagine the tracks on Unguarded being played alongside hits by the Cars, Duran Duran, and Thompson Twins on pop radio. What also made that transition easier was the only lightly spiritual content of the lyrics. In song after song, Grant (who contributed to seven of the ten tunes, mostly writing words) and her collaborators described life as a struggle and suggested encouragement; if you listened carefully, words like "God," "Jesus," "holy," and "pray" might turn up once per song, or might be only implied by context. In her earnest breathy voice, Grant instructed her fans that they'd better "Wise Up," "Fight," and know "Who to Listen To" (and who not to listen to), but, as those fans bopped along to the synthesized beats, they could be forgiven for missing most of the Christian message if they didn't consult the lyric sheet. As a result, Unguarded worked as intended, producing a Top 40 hit in "Find a Way" and reaching the Top 40 of the LP chart itself. And, as would become apparent, that was only the beginning." All Music Guide – William Ruhlmann more