Songs (Rich Mullins album)

Infobox Album


Name = Songs
Released = July 30, 1996
Type = Compilation album
Recorded =
Genre = Contemporary Christian Music
Length =
Label = Reunion Records
Producer = Reed Arvin Rich Mullins A Ragamuffin Band
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Artist = Rich Mullins
Last album = "Brother's Keeper"
(1995)
This album = "Songs"
(1996)
Next album = "The Jesus Record"
(1998)

"Songs" is a compilation of well-known songs by American singer/songwriter Rich Mullins, released on July 30, 1996. It was the last album to be released by Mullins before his untimely death in a car accident on September 19, 1997. A follow-up hits compilation, Songs 2, was released in 1999.

The album featured three new recordings: new versions of the previously recorded songs "Sing Your Praise to the Lord" and "Elijah", and a brand new track, "We Are Not As Strong As We Think We Are". In addition, the album featured the full-length radio single version of "Screen Door", which had been commercially unavailable prior to this release.

In 2001, "Songs" was certified as a Gold record (500,000 units sold) by the RIAA [http://www.riaa.com/news/newsletter/press2001/110101.asp] .

Track listing

# "Sing Your Praise to the Lord" (Rich Mullins)
#*New recording. Original version from "Behold the Man" 1981
# "Awesome God" (Rich Mullins)
#*From "Winds of Heaven, Stuff of Earth" 1988
# "Sometimes By Step" (Rich Mullins and Beaker)
#*From "The World as Best as I Remember It, Volume Two" 1992
# "Creed" (Rich Mullins and Beaker)
#*From "A Liturgy, a Legacy, & a Ragamuffin Band" 1993
# "We Are Not as Strong As We Think We Are" (Rich Mullins)
#*New song
# "If I Stand" (Rich Mullins and Steve Cudworth)
#*From "Winds of Heaven, Stuff of Earth" 1988
# "Screen Door" (Rich Mullins)
#*From "Pictures in the Sky" 1987
# "Let Mercy Lead" (Rich Mullins and Beaker)
#*From "Brother's Keeper" 1995
# "Elijah" (Rich Mullins)
#*New recording. Original version from "Rich Mullins" 1986
# "Calling Out Your Name" (Rich Mullins)
#*From "The World as Best as I Remember It, Volume One" 1991
# "My One Thing" (Rich Mullins)
#*From "Never Picture Perfect" 1989
# "Boy Like Me/Man Like You" (Rich Mullins and Beaker)
#*From "The World as Best as I Remember It, Volume One" 1991
# "Alrightokuhuhamen" (Rich Mullins)
#*From "Never Picture Perfect" 1989
# "While the Nations Rage" (Rich Mullins)
#*From "Never Picture Perfect" 1989
# "Verge of a Miracle" (Rich Mullins)
#*From "Pictures in the Sky" 1987
# "Hold Me Jesus" (Rich Mullins)
#*From "A Liturgy, a Legacy, & a Ragamuffin Band" 1993