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The following is a list of Christian country artists.. Christian country music, sometimes marketed as country gospel, inspirational country is country music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as (in terms of the varying music styles) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music.
"Voices That Care" is a 1991 song written by David Foster, Linda Thompson, and Peter Cetera and recorded by a supergroup of popular musicians, entertainers and athletes. [2] The song was released as a single on March 13, 1991 by Giant Records .
"You Gotta Move" is a traditional African-American spiritual song. Since the 1940s, the song has been recorded by a variety of gospel musicians, usually as "You Got to Move" or "You've Got to Move". It was later popularized with blues and blues rock secular adaptations by Mississippi Fred McDowell and the Rolling Stones.
Titles like "Bye and Bye We're Going to See the King" and "I Wouldn't Mind Dying (If Dying Was All)" are taken from the refrain. The title of the 1929 version by Washington Phillips, "A Mother's Last Word to Her Daughter", whose verses differ markedly from other versions, was presumably chosen to indicate that he intended it as a companion song to his "Mother's Last Word to Her Son" of 1927.
Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope is the thirty-first studio album by American country music singer Reba McEntire. It was released on February 3, 2017, by Rockin' R Records, Nash Icon , Big Machine Records and Capitol Christian Music Group .
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet is a 1971 composition by Gavin Bryars based on a loop of an unknown homeless man singing a brief improvised stanza. [1] [2] The loop was possibly the singer's recollection of the chorus of a gospel hymn, by James M Black, published in 1911.
"I'll Fly Away" is a hymn written in 1929 by Albert E. Brumley and published in 1932 by the Hartford Music company in a collection titled Wonderful Message. [1] [2] Brumley's writing was influenced by the 1924 secular ballad, "The Prisoner's Song". "I'll Fly Away" has been called the most recorded gospel song.
The song inspired the creating of a gospel album between the pair. It was also an opportunity for Smith to record more gospel material, [6] after becoming a Christian in 1968 and pushing for more gospel material on recording sessions. [3] "I wanted to do a gospel record at that point, so this was a way to record one," recalled Smith in 2012. [6]