Not Without Love

Not Without Love
Studio album by Jimmy Needham
Released	August 19, 2008
Genre	CCM, acoustic pop, blues, Christian rock
Length	41:34 [1]
Label	Inpop
Jimmy Needham chronology

Last updated October 01, 2019

Not Without Love is the second studio album from CCM musician Jimmy Needham. It was released on August 19, 2008 through Inpop Records in the United States. The album's lead single "A Breath or Two" was released prior to the album, and reached No. 11 on Christian contemporary hit radio.

Contemporary Christian music genre of modern popular music

Contemporary Christian music is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith. It formed as those affected by the 1960s Jesus movement revival began to express themselves in a more contemporary style of music than the hymns, Gospel and Southern gospel music that was prevalent in the church at the time. Today, the term is typically used to refer to pop, rock, or praise & worship styles.

Jimmy Needham is an American contemporary Christian musician signed to Inpop Records. He released debut album, For Freedom, an independent release, in 2005, and after signing with the Christian record label Inpop in 2006, a series of albums: Speak (2006), Not Without Love (2008), Nightlights (2010), Clear the Stage (2012), and Vice & Virtue (2015).

Inpop Records is an independent contemporary Christian music record label based in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. It was launched in July 1999 by Australians Peter Furler, Dale Bray, and Wes Campbell. The name was derived from the idea of wanting to highlight the talents of international pop artists, though they have signed an equal number of American artists.

Musical style

Similar to his last album, Speak , Jimmy Needham has frequently been compared to Jason Mraz in musical style, as well as John Mayer and Marc Broussard.^[1]^[2]Not Without Love's main genre is alternative CCM,^[3] although Needham takes influence from other styles such as rock and blues with a "jazzy pop" sound.^[2]

<i>Speak</i> (Jimmy Needham album) 2006 studio album by Jimmy Needham

Speak is the first major studio album from the contemporary Christian music musician, Jimmy Needham. It was released on August 15, 2006 under Inpop Records in the United States.

Jason Thomas Mraz is an American singer-songwriter and actor who first came to prominence in the San Diego coffee shop scene in 2000. In 2002 he released his debut studio album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which contained the hit single "The Remedy ". With the release of his second album, Mr. A-Z, in 2005, Mraz achieved major commercial success. The album peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200 and sold over 100,000 copies in the US. In 2008 Mraz released his third studio album, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. It debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 and was an international commercial success primarily due to the hit "I'm Yours". The song peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving him his first top ten single, and spent a then-record 76 weeks on the Hot 100. His fourth album, Love Is a Four Letter Word, peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200, his highest-charting album to date.

John Clayton Mayer is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Mayer attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, but disenrolled and moved to Atlanta in 1997 with Clay Cook. Together, they formed a short-lived two-man band called Lo-Fi Masters. After their split, Mayer continued to play local clubs, refining his skills and gaining a following. After his appearance at the 2001 South by Southwest Festival, he was signed to Aware Records, and then Columbia Records, which released his first EP, Inside Wants Out. His following two full-length albums—Room for Squares (2001) and Heavier Things (2003)—did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. In 2003, he won the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the single "Your Body Is a Wonderland".

Lyrics

The lyrical songwriting in Not Without Love has often been noted as having "clever wordplay" similar to pop/jazz musician Jason Mraz.^[2] Needham was newly married when writing the album, and two songs were written about his wife Kelly Needham. "Firefly" is a lighthearted, "ragtime style" song about marriage,^[1] while "Unfailing Love (Kelly's Song)" is a ballad that Needham sang at his wedding, originally written as a proposal to Kelly.^[4]

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s. The terms "popular music" and "pop music" are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many diverse styles. "Pop" and "rock" were roughly synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they became increasingly differentiated from each other.

Promotion and release

In promotion of the album, Not Without Love's first single, "A Breath or Two", was released to radios in mid-2008. The album was subsequently released on August 19, 2008 in the U.S. under the Inpop label.^[5] It debuted at number 8 on both the Christian AC Soundscan and Overall Christian Digital charts.^[4] Later in the year, Needham guested on Christian rock band BarlowGirl's Million Voices Tour along with Brooke Barrettsmith; the tour began on September 12 in Houston, Texas, and ran until mid-November 2008.^[4] "A Breath or Two" also garnered success, reaching #13 on R&R's Christian CHR radio chart by the week of September 4, and reached a peak of at least #11 through early 2009.^[6] The album's second single, "Forgiven and Loved", was released early in the year near the same time.

Christian rock is a form of rock music that features lyrics focusing on matters of Christian faith, often with an emphasis on Jesus, typically performed by self-proclaimed Christian individuals. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands. Many bands who perform Christian rock have ties to the contemporary Christian music labels, media outlets, and festivals, while other bands are independent.

BarlowGirl was an American Christian rock and CCM all-female band from Elgin, Illinois. The band was composed of sisters Alyssa, Rebecca, and Lauren Barlow. The band is best known for its radio singles "Never Alone" in 2004 and "I Need You to Love Me" in 2006, breaking records for the longest-charting No. 1 song on the Radio and Records Christian Hit Radio (CHR) chart and obtaining millions of views for their music videos on YouTube. It has also seen continued success with the Home for Christmas album. The band exceeded sales of one million compact discs by the end of 2008 and finished its career with over 1 million digital song downloads and 1.3 million compact disc sales.

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[7]
Christianity Today	^[8]
Cross Rhythms	^[9]
Jesus Freak Hideout	^[10]

Not Without Love received generally positive reviews from critics. AllMusic reviewer Jared Johnson noted that Jimmy Needham "stepped up his game" with his second release, having better production quality than his debut album; Johnson claimed that "Christian music lovers need a lot more like this".^[3]

AllMusic is an online music database. It catalogs more than 3 million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musical artists and bands. It launched in 1991, predating the World Wide Web. As of 2015, AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne.

Track listing

Album release
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Come Around"	Jimmy Needham	3:25
2.	"A Breath or Two"	Colin Bates, Needham	3:23
3.	"Hurricane"	Jason Ingram, Needham	3:59
4.	"Firefly"	Needham	2:36
5.	"Forgiven and Loved"	Needham	3:29
6.	"Before and After"	Ingram, Needham	3:29
7.	"Tossed By the Wind"	Needham	3:56
8.	"Unfailing Love (Kelly's Song)"	Needham	3:56
9.	"Rend"	Needham	3:24
10.	"The Author"	Scott Davis, Needham	3:20
11.	"The Great Love Story"	Needham	4:48
12.	"Not Without Love (The Benediction)"	Needham	1:49

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1 2 3 Russ Breimeier. "Jimmy Needham - Not Without Love". Christianity Today . Retrieved 2009-01-17.
1 2 Jared Johnson. "Not Without Love > Overview". Allmusic . Retrieved 2009-01-17.
1 2 3 "Jimmy Needham Achieves New Personal Best with First Week Sales Numbers". BREATHEcast.com. 2008-09-04. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
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↑ Allmusic review
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[jfh-1] 1 2 3 Matthew Watson (2008-08-17). "Jimmy Needham, "Not Without Love" Review". Jesus Freak Hideout. Retrieved 2009-01-17.

[cmt-2] 1 2 3 Russ Breimeier. "Jimmy Needham - Not Without Love". Christianity Today . Retrieved 2009-01-17.

[allmusic-3] 1 2 Jared Johnson. "Not Without Love > Overview". Allmusic . Retrieved 2009-01-17.

[bc_personal_best-4] 1 2 3 "Jimmy Needham Achieves New Personal Best with First Week Sales Numbers". BREATHEcast.com. 2008-09-04. Retrieved 2009-01-17.

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[r&r-6] "Christian CHR National Airplay". Radio & Records . 2009-01-16. Archived from the original on 2008-01-16. Retrieved 2009-01-17.

[7] Allmusic review

[8] Christianity Today review

[9] Cross Rhythms review

[10] Jesus Freak Hideout review