Album Of The Day: The World As Best As I Remember It, Vol. 1 by Rich Mullins

Album Art of Rich Mullins's The World As Best As I Remember It, Vol. 1 album - The background looks like a gradient of a clear sky, a powdery blue at the top and a yellow gold at the bottom. Layered on top of this is a transparent, black-and-white photo of a middle-aged white man with long, black hair, zoomed in close on just his face. And on top of all that, spread out across five lines and spaced across horizontally as well are small letters that spell out the artist's name in the first line and the album title on the next four lines. Most of the letters are black in color, but some are other primary colors.

Released 35 years ago sometime in late May, this is the fifth album from one of Christian pop/rock's best songwriters, Rich Mullins. On songs like "The Howling" and "Calling Out Your Name", Rich finds God's handiwork in nature around him and uses it to better understand his relationship to God. In "Boy Like Me/Man Like You", Rich tells a bit of Jesus's story and aspires to be more like Him. Some of Mullins's most well-known songs are also on this album, such as "I See You" and "Step By Step", a worship chorus that both opens and closes this album. And of course there's that excellent intro with a hammer dulcimer and strings on "Calling Out Your Name", one of many great musical moments here. This 10-track album is not long but it's one of Rich Mullins's best albums, I think.

Release Year: 1991
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If you are a fan of Rich Mullins, you should consider supporting the new crowd-funding campaign to finally release Rich Mullins's first, independent recording, Behold The Man by Zion. In 1981 Rich recorded with some friends as this band Zion and it was released independently on vinyl at the time and was only available direct from the band, but now Old Bear Records and UTR Media are going to work to remaster it and give it a much wider release. You can help to make this release happen by contributing, and you can get the remastered album on download, CD and/or vinyl if the project is successful. I'm excited to hear this bit of history for the first time and have already pledged my support.

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