I Serve a Savior | ||||
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Released | October 26, 2018 | |||
Studio | Ken's Gold Club Stage Recording Studio [1] | |||
Genre | Christian country, gospel [1] | |||
Length | 41:51 | |||
Label | MCA Nashville | |||
Producer | Kenny Greenberg | |||
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I Serve a Savior is the seventh studio album by American country music artist Josh Turner. It was released on October 26, 2018, through MCA Nashville, and is Turner's first release to primarily consist of gospel music. The album was also bundled with a live performance DVD for release exclusively in Cracker Barrel stores that features an interview with Bill Gaither. [2]
I Serve a Savior is a collection of mostly gospel music standards with a few original songs, such as the title track, which was co-written by Turner, and one that his wife and son wrote together. [2] The album features new live recordings of two of his previous hit singles — "Long Black Train" and "Me and God" — as well as duets with Sonya Isaacs, Bobby Osborne, and Turner's own family (including his wife and four sons) on "The River (Of Happiness)". [3]
Recording a gospel project was something Turner had "been wanting to do for a long time" and he decided that the timing was finally right for him to do it: "I didn't have any big plans for 2018 and my favorite part of my job is to go into the studio and create. I just felt like it was God's timing and I couldn't pass it up." [2]
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave the album three stars out of five, praising the duets with Sonya Isaacs and Bobby Osborne and calling it a "a sturdy, comforting listen, which is precisely what it was intended to be." [1]
The album debuted at No. 2 on Billboard's Top Country Albums and Top Christian Albums for charts dated November 10, 2018, selling 14,000 copies in the first week (15,000 in equivalent album units). It is Turner's first appearance on the Christian chart. [4] The album sold a further 8,300 copies the second week. [5] It has sold 147,000 copies in the United States as of March 2020. [6]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "I Saw the Light" (featuring Sonya Isaacs) | Hank Williams | 3:21 |
2. | "I Pray My Way Out of Trouble" (featuring Bobby Osborne) | Loretta Lynn, Teddy Wilburn | 3:39 |
3. | "Great Is Your Faithfulness" | Thomas Chisholm, William M. Runyan | 4:14 |
4. | "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" | traditional | 3:51 |
5. | "Without Him" | Mylon LeFevre | 3:06 |
6. | "I Serve a Savior" | Mark Narmore, Josh Turner | 4:08 |
7. | "How Great Thou Art" (featuring Sonya Isaacs) | Carl Boberg, Stuart K. Hine | 4:23 |
8. | "The River (Of Happiness)" (live from Gaither Studios) (featuring The Turner Family) | Hampton Turner, Jennifer Turner | 1:40 |
9. | "Amazing Grace" | John Newton | 5:19 |
10. | "Long Black Train" (live from Gaither Studios) | Josh Turner | 4:21 |
11. | "Doxology" | Thomas Ken, Anonymous Genevan Psalter | 0:42 |
12. | "Me and God" (live from Gaither Studios) | Josh Turner | 3:11 |
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