Doing My Best: Volume 2

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Doing My Best: Volume 2
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Greatest hits album by
Released1992
Recorded1992
Genre Christian music, Rock
Label Sparrow
Producer
Steve Camp chronology
Consider the Cost
(1991)
Doing My Best: Volume 2
(1992)
Taking Heaven by Storm
(1993)
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Doing My Best: Volume 2 is a contemporary Christian music compilation album by Steve Camp and was released by Sparrow Records in 1992. [2] This is the second compilation album until this title, following 1990's Doing My Best: Vol. 1 and was Camp's final release on the Sparrow label, as he moved to the Warner Alliance label the following year. Unlike the first Doing My Best release, this album contained songs with a heavier rock sound and no new songs.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks by Steve Camp and Rob Frazier, except where noted.

  1. "Fire And Ice" – 2:55
  2. "Foolish Things" – 4:01
  3. "Living Dangerously In The Hands Of God" – 5:08
  4. "One On One" (Margaret Becker, Camp) – 4:32
  5. "Squeeze" – 4:57
  6. "After God's Own Heart" (Camp, Frazier, John Rosasco) – 5:16
  7. "Even Now" – 3:59
  8. "Playing Marbles With Diamonds" – 5:00
  9. "Help Is On The Way" (Buckley-Frazier, Camp) – 4:05
  10. "Shake Me To Wake Me" – 4:33
  11. "Love's Not A Feeling" – 4:17
  12. "The Church Is All Of You" (Camp, Rosasco) – 5:28
  13. "Lazy Jane" – 3:21
  14. "I Believe In You" – 4:25

Personnel

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References

  1. AllMusic overview
  2. Christian Music Archive, Doing My Best: Volume 2 Archived May 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine