Songs of the Heart
Studio album by
Released1995
StudioThe Green Room, Huntington Beach, California; Desert Moon Studios, Anaheim, California
GenreChristian alternative rock
LabelBAI
ProducerTerry Scott Taylor, Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos chronology
BibleLand
(1994)
Songs of the Heart
(1995)
Mr. Buechner's Dream
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic[1]

Songs of the Heart is the twelfth studio album by Christian alternative rock band Daniel Amos, released on BAI Records in 1995.

Concept

The album's concept is a musical journey down legendary Route 66 with the fictional couple Bud & Irma Akendorf. This concept was partially conceived after discovering an LP hanging on the wall of their rehearsal hall. The LP, which was released in the early 1960s and entitled Songs of the Heart, was by a singing gospel duo by the name of Bob and Elsa Beckendorf. The cover featured the couple pictured in Oak Creek Canyon. The band, inspired by the cover, decided to explore the lives of a fictional couple, which they named Bud and Irma Akendorf. The released cover of D.A.'s Songs of the Heart is an exact copy of the original LP by the Beckendorfs, with the artist name replaced. In an interesting turn of events, it turned out that the Beckendorfs were from Sedona, Arizona - which happened to be the real life home of Daniel Amos' founder Terry Scott Taylor's paternal grandparents.

Songs was later re-envisioned in the form of a three-CD book set, When Everyone Wore Hats. "Hats" included the entire original release plus the entire album rerecorded as an acoustic coffeehouse band, three bonus tracks, an interview about the album, new photos, liner notes and a short story by Taylor.

Track listing

  1. "Cant Take My Eyes Off Of You" (Gaudio/Crewe)
  2. "The Glory Road" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  3. "Get Into the Bus, Aloha" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  4. "Evangeline" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  5. "Uneasy Lies the Head of the Confidence Man" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  6. "The Organ Bar" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  7. "Donna Nietche and her Super Race of Kick Boxing Uber Parrots" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  8. "Our Night to Howl, Time to Go Dancing" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  9. "Sins of the Fathers" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  10. "Turn This Off" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  11. "Loveland" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  12. "When Everyone Wore Hats" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  13. "My Hand to God" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)

Personnel

Additional musicians

Production notes

References

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