Roaring Lambs

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Roaring Lambs
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Compilation album by
Various artists
ReleasedMay 30, 2000
Studio
  • The Tracking Room, The White House, Ken's Gold Club, The Carport, Ocean Way Recording, Seventeen Grand Recording, Battery Studios, The Salt Mine and Dave's Extistential Waco Bus (Nashville, Tennessee)
  • Dark Horse Recording, Sound Kitchen and Hound's Ear Studio (Franklin, Tennessee)
  • Charlie Peacock Productions and The Art House (Bellevue, Tennessee)
  • Sweet Tea (Oxford, Mississippi)
  • Avatar Studios (New York City, New York)
  • The Grey Ghost (Bloomington, Indiana)
  • Tom Lewis Studios (Atlanta, Georgia)
Genre Contemporary Christian music
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Roaring Lambs (released in 2000) is a collaborative album based on the book, Roaring Lambs: A Gentle Plan to Radically Change Your World, by Bob Briner. Conceived and directed Dave Palmer, and produced by Steve Taylor, the recording includes a number of CCM artists' musical interpretations of Briner's message about the need to have a positive impact on their culture. The work was nominated for three GMA Dove awards, winning for "Recorded Music Packaging of the Year". [5] Critical reception of the album was mixed, but it was noted for its eclectic artist pairings. [6]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Headstrong"; performed by Jars of Clay (Dan Haseltine, Charlie Lowell, Stephen Mason, Matt Odmark) - 3:32
  2. "Salt and Light"; performed by Ashley Cleveland and Michael Tait (Ashley Cleveland, Chad Cromwell, Kenny Greenberg, Michael Rhodes) - 4:04
  3. "Out There"; performed by Steven Curtis Chapman and Michael W. Smith (Bob Briner, Steven Curtis Chapman, Michael W. Smith) - 4:18
  4. "One Thing"; performed by Ginny Owens and Brent Bourgeois (Brent Bourgeois) - 3:25
  5. "Shortstop"; performed by Steve Taylor (Steve Taylor) - 2:59
  6. 'Kingdom Come"; performed by PFR (Patrick Andrew, Joel Hanson, John Mark Painter) - 4:56
  7. "'Akehlulek' Ubaba (With God Everything is Possible)"; performed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Charlie Peacock (Joseph Shabalala) - 5:16
  8. "Touch"; performed by Delirious? (Stuart Garrard, Martin Smith) - 4:15
  9. "Daisies and Roses"; performed by Burlap to Cashmere (Steven Delopoulos) - 3:38
  10. "Goodbye"; performed by Over the Rhine (Karin Bergquist, Linford Detweiler) - 5:30
  11. "Wondering Where the Lions Are"; performed by Bill Mallonee and Vigilantes of Love (Bruce Cockburn) - 3:30
  12. "The Ground You Shook"; performed by Sixpence None the Richer (Matt Slocum) - 4:19

Personnel

Vocalists

Musicians

Production

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References

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  2. Greg Clugston (October 2, 2000). "The CT Review: Singing Briner's Praises: A review of the Roaring Lambs CD". Christianity Today . Retrieved September 14, 2011.
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  5. "Dove Award Recipients for 2001" Archived 2012-05-29 at the Wayback Machine .
  6. "Roaring Lambs (album review)". CCM Magazine . June 2000. Archived from the original on 2001-01-10.