Dry Bones Dance

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Dry Bones Dance
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Studio album by
Released1990
Studio Fingerprint Recorders, Los Angeles, California
Genre Folk, rock
Label Fingerprint
Producer Mark Heard
Mark Heard chronology
Tribal Opera
(1987)
Dry Bones Dance
(1990)
Second Hand
(1991)
Professional ratings
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Dry Bones Dance is an album by Mark Heard, released in 1990, the first to be released on his own Fingerprint Records. [2] The album was listed at No. 29 in CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music . [3]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Mark Heard.

  1. "Rise From The Ruins" – 3:03
  2. "The Dry Bones Dance" – 3:48
  3. "House of Broken Dreams" – 4:13
  4. "Our Restless Hearts" – 3:43
  5. "Nobody's Looking" – 3:26
  6. "All She Wanted Was Love" – 4:20
  7. "Strong Hand of Love" – 3:05
  8. "How Many Tears" – 3:01
  9. "Lonely Road" – 4:12
  10. "Waiting for a Reason" – 3:31
  11. "Everything Is Alright" – 4:24
  12. "Awake in the Night Time" – 3:30
  13. "Mercy of the Flame" – 4:24
  14. "Fire" – 7:13

Personnel

Production notes


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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Powell, Mark Allan (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers. pp. 407–408. ISBN   978-1565636798.
  3. Granger, Thom, ed. (2001). The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music. Harvest House. pp. 118–119. ISBN   0-7369-0281-3.