Elvis Presley Album: «Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Performances»
Elvis Presley Album: «Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Performances»
- Customers rating: (4.9 of 5)
- Title:Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Performances
- Release date:1994-10-25
- Type:Audio CD
- Label:RCA
- UPC:078636642123
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- 1 - 1 I Believe2:03
- 1 - 2(There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me)img
- 1 - 3 Take My Hand, Precious Lordimg 3:15
- 1 - 4It Is No Secret (What God Can Do)
- 1 - 5 Milky White Wayimg 2:12
- 1 - 6 His Hand In Mine3:15
- 1 - 7I Believe In The Man In The Skyimg
- 1 - 8He Knows Just What I Need
- 1 - 9 Mansion Over The Hilltop2:56
- 1 - 10 In My Father's Houseimg 2:05
- 1 - 11 Joshua Fit The Battle2:36
- 1 - 12 Swing Down Sweet Chariotimg 3:25
- 1 - 13I'm Gonna Walk Dem Golden Stairs
- 1 - 14 If We Never Meet Again1:55
- 1 - 15 Known Only To Him2:08
- 1 - 16Working On The Building
- 1 - 17 Crying In The Chapelimg 2:25
- 1 - 18 Run On2:20
- 1 - 19 How Great Thou Art3:02
- 1 - 20Stand By Meimg
- 1 - 21 Where No One Stands Alone2:43
- 1 - 22 So High1:55
- 1 - 23Farther Along
- 1 - 24By And By
- 1 - 25 In The Gardenimg 3:10
- 1 - 26 Somebody Bigger Than You And I2:24
- 1 - 27 Without Him2:28
- 1 - 28If The Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side
- 1 - 29Where Could I Go But To The Lord
- 2 - 1 We Call On Him2:31
- 2 - 2 You'll Never Walk Aloneimg 2:40
- 2 - 3 Only Believe2:47
- 2 - 4 Amazing Graceimg 3:32
- 2 - 5Miracle Of The Rosary1:49
- 2 - 6 Lead Me, Guide Meimg 2:38
- 2 - 7He Touched Me2:39
- 2 - 8I've Got Confidenceimg
- 2 - 9 An Evening Prayerimg 1:55
- 2 - 10Seeing Is Believing
- 2 - 11A Thing Called Love
- 2 - 12Put Your Hand In The Hand
- 2 - 13 Reach Out To Jesusimg 3:12
- 2 - 14 He Is My Everythingimg 2:38
- 2 - 15There Is No God But Godimg
- 2 - 16 I, John2:13
- 2 - 17 Bosom Of Abrahamimg 1:33
- 2 - 18 Help Me2:26
- 2 - 19 If That Isn't Loveimg 3:28
- 2 - 20Why Me Lord (Live Version)
- 2 - 21How Great Thou Art (Live Version)
- 2 - 22I, John - (previously unreleased)
- 2 - 23Bossom Of Abraham
- 2 - 24You Better Run - (previously unreleased)
- 2 - 25 Lead Me, Guide Meimg 2:38
- 2 - 26Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus / Nearer My God To Thee - (previously unreleased)
In his book CARELESS LOVE, Peter Guralnick rates this album as a must-have for any fans of Elvis and of American music. He's dead-on correct. This album is unbelievable, and shows a completely overlooked side of Elvis.
These days, Elvis Presley is almost criminally overlooked as an artist -- drowned in a sea of fat jump-suit bad-movie jokes. But what other artist can sing rock n'roll, country, R&B, schlock like "My Way" and gospel music so effortlessly and convincingly? Answer: No one.
"Amazing Grace" suffers from double-album disease, i.e. weaker songs interspersed with heart-stopping tunes. But repeated listens to songs like I,John, Bosom of Abraham, Lead Me, Guide Me, and the soaring How Great Thou Art are without question worth the cost of this 2-CD set. Gospel was the music that moved Elvis most, and you can just feel it in his voice -- the conviction, the faith, the anguish. No music lover should be without this album.
This compilation is a must for any fan of gospel music. Elvis was the first contemporary Gospel singer. Sample a few of the music clips and you will the understand why this *Rock Star* was awarded three Grammy Awards for his Gospel music.
The negative to this set is the compilation is not complete. For some reason RCA chose to leave off the song Who Am I that was recorded at American Sound Studios in 1968 and the song I Got A Feelin In My Body recorded at Stax Studios in 1973.
So unfortunately as with many of RCA's box sets you will have to purchase a few more albums to have all the gospel songs.
The positive is they chose to add some rehearsals that were previously unavailable and you can actually feel what Elvis got out of this music and understand why he continued to love gospel music to the day he died.
Well, well ... imagine ME wanting to listen to GOSPEL music.They say the Lord DOES work in mysterious ways ... I got thisset...and it's pretty cool.
I really love the first few tracks on disc 1: I Believe, Peace In The Valley, Take My Hand Precious Lord, It Is No Secret --- those are the only ones I'd heard before, but if I'm gonna buy some Elvis gospel, then dangit I want the best collection there is, and this seems to be it.
Some of the rest are really "deep South" sounding, but they are all very uplifting spiritually and I am very happy with this set. I just have to "get used" to so many songs that I am unfamiliar with. But, Hey! It's ELVIS!
Elvis has about a gazillion CD's, right? Well, get this set, and also the 2-CD "50 Worldwide Gold Hits" ...and you will have all the ELVIS you will ever need.
When I was younger I used to skip over the gospel songs on Elvis's albums.Now I have seen the light.This was the music that was Elvis's true love.You can hear it in his voice.This music will touch your soul.
This is truly one of, if not, the best Elvis albums ever. This truly captures Elvis' soul in every song. It also displays his talent to arrange and create these gospel songs in a way that stirs and shakes the soul. I am 22 years old and I am an Elvis fan, never paying much attention to his gospel music. I am still not a gospel fan, but I am an Elvis gospel fan. No one can sing it like the king. It is an amazing and spriritual event listening to this album. I highly recommend it.