Album Of The Day: Brother's Keeper by Rich Mullins

Album Art of Rich Mullins's Brother's Keeper album - The border around the edge seems to be a repeating photo of clouds on a blue sky. Inside that, it looks like a mixed media piece, with what looks like wires connecting various lights inside that border and between the vertical portions inside the border. The top third has red paint in the left and right, with what looks like the outlines of a dog painted on each side. And In the middle is a wintery scene of a snow-covered field, a picket fence, and a lone tree. The bottom third has red paint in the left and right as well, with a series of circles inside each other painted in white on the left and the outline of a hand painted on the right. The wintery scene is repeated again in the middle of the bottom row. The middle third of the vertical area has a photo of a man with dark hair in the middle, and clouds on both sides, with the artist name and album title handwritten above the clouds on the left side.

Released 30 years ago yesterday, I think, this is the 8th album from Rich Mullins and the final studio album released before his death in 1997. Rich Mullins is one of the best songwriters I've ever heard, and songs like the title track, "Cry The Name" and "Let Mercy Lead" are so good. And wow, "The Breaks", "Hatching Of A Heart" and "Wounds Of Love" are just beautiful as well. It's not my favorite Rich Mullins album, and I feel it probably could have sounded a bit better had it not been self-produced, but like any Rich Mullins album, the songwriting and his performance is definitely worth a listen. Really, it's all good songs, even if I have some minor quibbles about the way it was recorded or that it started getting a bit more country than I prefer. If you've not given this a listen or if it's been a few years, I recommend you try giving this album a play, though I could say that for almost every album I mention here. Maybe I just can't wait to hear what Rich Mullins is writing in heaven, I guess.

Release Year: 1995
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