The Whole Truth (album)

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Released March 15, 1995 Artist Point of Grace Label Word Records		Recorded 1994 Release date 15 March 1995 Producer Robert Sterling

The Whole Truth (1995) Life Love & Other Mysteries (1996) Genre Contemporary Christian music Similar Free to Fly, Tennessee Christmas: A Holiday, Life Love & Other Mysteries, I Choose You, Steady On

Gather at the river

Point of Grace is the second album by Contemporary Christian group Point of Grace. It was released in 1995 by Word Records with selected market distribution by Epic Records in a deal that dated to Word's ownership by Capital Cities Communications in the 1980s. The Epic deal expired shortly after Word's acquisition by AOL Time Warner in 2002. On December 9, 1995, the album charted on the Billboard 200 at No. 132.

Track listing

"Gather At The River" - 3:25
"Without The Love Of Jesus" - 3:49
"The Great Divide" - 4:18
"Dying To Reach You" - 4:15
"Love Like No Other" - 4:13
"God Is With Us" - 3:58
"What's He Gonna Say About Me" - 4:17
"The Love He Has For You" - 4:59
"Take Me Back" - 3:55
"The House That Mercy Built" - 4:00
"More Than Anything" - 3:29

Singles

"The Great Divide" - #1

"Dying To Reach You" - #1

"Gather At The River" - #1

"God Is With Us" - #1

"Love Like No Other" - #1

Music videos

"Gather At The River"

"Dying To Reach You"

Singers

Shelley Breen

Heather Payne

Denise Jones

Terry Jones

Trivia

When songwriter Grant Cunningham was writing the lyrics to "The Great Divide" on his computer, he had originally meant to type out the phrase "there's a bridge to cross the great divide," but when he printed the song out, it came out as "there's a cross to bridge the great divide." It was a typo, but the girls and John Mays loved what it said and kept it.

The girls had had a fight right before they went into the studio to cut "Gather At The River." As they sang through the song, the lyrics to the first line spoke to them ("Sometimes we don't see eye to eye / We don't agree, we don't know why"), and they forgave each other and got on with it. At the time, Terry had moved back to Little Rock, AR, and the other members lived in suburban Nashville. Shelley and Heather were roommates.

The video to "Gather At The River" was shot in Oklahoma in 105 degree weather. Everyone's favorite scene was, of course, the water scene.

The lead vocal by Shelley on "God Is With Us" is her scratch vocal.

There is a very low part on the first verse of "Love Like No Other," and the producers were not happy with the way it was sounding, so they sent vocal producer Cheryl Rogers to go in and sing that bit with them.

Shelley had participated in the writing of one cut on the album, a rarity in that a member had participated in writing on an album; it is the only time it has happened in the group's history. Heather later participated in the writing of a cut on a Truth album in 1998 along with 4Him's Marty Mageehee. (That group was where 4Him, and future Point of Grace husband and wife members Dana and Leigh Cappillino started.)

After Heather's departure in 2008, the group began performing "The Great Divide" as part of a medley along with "Keep The Candle Burning."

The music video for "Dying to Reach You" includes Terry's husband Chris Jones in the background.

Personnel

Pat Coil - piano

David Hamilton - hammond B-3, keyboards

Mark Baldwin - guitar

Tom Hemby - guitar

Jerry McPherson - guitar

Jackie Street - bass guitar

Scott Williamson - drums

Dennis Patton - keyboards and synth bass on Track 2, 6

Dann Huff - guitars on Track 4

Tommy Simms - bass guitar on Track 4

Paul Leim - drums on Track 4

Eric Darken - percussion on Track 4

Songs

1Gather at the River3:26
2Without the Love of Jesus3:50
3The Great Divide4:18

References

The Whole Truth (album) Wikipedia

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