Album Of The Day: My Utmost For His Highest by Various Artists

Album Art of the My Utmost For His Highest various artists album - On a beige paper background, four black-and-white images are layered on top of each other. First, a large photo of flowers and a sky are the back photo. On top of that, with a shadow behind it, is the photo of a wrought-iron fence. Above that is a photo of some handwritten musical notation. And the smallest photo in the middle is a photo of two hands on a black background, held open in a prayerful manner. At the top, in a hand-written script is the album title in black.

Released 30 years ago today, I think, is this album celebrating the Christian devotional book by Oswald Chambers of the same name. First published about 100 years ago, the book has 366 one-page reflections and prayers. The album has 11 songs written by artists, each based on one of the pages of Chambers's devotional. About half of the songs are co-written by Michael W. Smith, though he lets other artists perform all but one of those songs. The biggest Christian pop artists of the time are here along with Smith with original, new songs, from Amy Grant to Steven Curtis Chapman to 4Him to Twila Paris. I only picked up this album a few years ago, so it's not one that's well-known to me, but it's got some pretty good songs. One song I heard about 10-15 years ago sung by a choir at church is the final track, "Shine On Us", here performed by Phillips, Craig & Dean. Like many songs on this, it's a very worshipful, adult contemporary hymn. It's not an amazing album by any means, but I think it's a good example of where Christian music was 30 years ago.

Release Year: 1995
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