Album Of The Day: Worktapes: More Songs Of Rich Mullins by Various Artists

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If you've been reading these posts for a while, you know I'm a fan of Rich Mullins. He was a songwriter who filled his songs with honesty, the love of God, and so much more. In 2023, Worktapes was released with 14 (15 on CD) covers of Rich Mullins songs by independent artists and 1 Rich Mullins live recording. The songs are mostly just vocals and an acoustic guitar or piano, so they are very different from Rich's heavily-produced, '80s/'90s pop/rock albums. But his songwriting and the respect and passion of the performers for his songs are very palpable. It's a great set of simple recordings honoring a humble man and his songs. You probably won't recognize many of these artists unless you're very familiar with lots of independent Christian artists, but these songs from Jess Ray, Andrew Greer, Josh Wilson, John Tibbs, Candace Coker and many more are worth a listen.

And if you would like to hear more Rich Mullins covers from some more great artists, I highly recommend you head over to Kickstarter NOW and support the "Back To Bellsburg" crowd-funding campaign. The folks at Old Bear Records can't make a new album of Rich Mullins covers happen without our help, and I've already given what I can afford. You can throw in some money and get a download or get a CD and/or vinyl copy to go with that download. If they don't get enough support in these final hours, the album will not be fully funded and will not be able to be finished. Please, join me in supporting this celebration of Rich Mullins's songs.

Release Year: 2023
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