Album Of The Day: A Liturgy, A Legacy, & The Songs Of Rich Mullins by Andrew Peterson

Album Art of Andrew Peterson's A Liturgy, A Legacy, and The Songs Of Rich Mullins album - A black-and-white photo of a man in a funny double-breasted coat that has large silver buttons on both the right and the left of the center. He's got a somewhat surprised look on his bearded face and has thick, dark hair. His hands are clasped together in front of his waist and and looks a bit awkward. The top of his head is not visible nor are his legs, and it looks like the background is a field of some sort.

I've done a bunch of live albums in the past week, and an album of Rich Mullins covers. So for today, we're going to mash both of those together! In September 2017, 20 years after the death of Rich Mullins, Andrew Peterson held a one-night-only concert at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium. To celebrate the life of Rich Mullins, he and his friends along with some of Rich's friends recreated, note for note, Rich's finest album, the 1993 release A Liturgy, A Legacy & A Ragamuffin Band. I wasn't there, but I totally wished I could have made the trip to be there. It passed, and I thought we would only hear the legends of that evening. Then earlier this year, Andrew Peterson announced that his team had actually recorded it, it sounded great and they wanted to release it! Hooray! I ordered it on vinyl from their crowd-funding campaign, and I'm so looking forward on having the recording in hand. But for now, I have this digital version.

Released today to digital platforms, this is the full two-hour concert, complete with brief banter between songs and over a dozen covers of Rich Mullins favorites not on that album. Tracks 15-27 are an excellent, nearly note-for-note recreation of the A Liturgy... album, and it's done so well by all the musicians involved, it honestly does sound just as good as the studio album. There's not just drums, bass and guitars like a standard live show, but strings, flutes, and pretty much anything that was played on the original studio recording. Plus the audience knows all these songs well and joins in as a choir at just the right times. I think my favorite tracks currently are Jeremy Casella's version of "The Howling" and Andrew Osenga and the band rockin' out on Mark Heard's "How To Grow Up Big And Strong". Even if you're not familiar with that album, they sing a lot of well-known and lesser-known Rich Mullins songs from throughout his career. I'm going to love listening to this for many years, almost as much as Rich's album, honestly. Rich Mullins was a great songwriter, and I love that though he passed on to be with God, so many people honor his legacy and share it with all of us.

Release Year: 2025
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