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Unguarded (Amy Grant album)

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Released
  
May 15, 1985

Label
  
Myrrh, A&M

Artist
  
Amy Grant

Producer
  
Brown Bannister

Length
  
43:33

Unguarded (1985)
  
The Collection (1986)

Release date
  
15 May 1985

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Recorded
  
1984-1985 Caribou Ranch, Nederland, Colorado; The Bennett House, Franklin, TN; Mama Jo's, North Hollywood, CA; Bill Schnee Studio, North Hollywood, CA; Bullet Recording, Nashville, TN

Genre
  
Contemporary Christian music

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Gospel Vocal Performance, Female

Similar
  
Amy Grant albums, Contemporary Christian music albums

Amy grant love of another kind


Unguarded is the sixth studio album, and ninth album by Christian music singer Amy Grant, released in 1985 on A&M Records. It is Grant's first album released by A&M.

Contents

When Unguarded was released in 1985, Amy Grant was probably the most popular star in contemporary Christian music, recording songs with religious lyrics in the pop/rock style of the day. With this album, however, the religious content of the lyrics was scaled back as compared with her two previous regular studio albums, Age to Age and Straight Ahead. The album track "I Love You" was Grant's first secular love song from her own pen. Despite this, the album's lead-off single, "Find a Way", was a number one hit on the Christian radio charts. Four other singles from the album were also Top Ten Christian radio hits.

The aggressive mainstream style of the songs on Unguarded, combined with a heavy promotional campaign on the part of the album's distributor in secular outlets, A&M Records, helped three of its singles reach the mainstream charts. "Find a Way" was a Top Ten hit on the Adult Contemporary chart and peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100, while "Everywhere I Go" was a Top Thirty AC single and "Wise Up" was a minor charting single on the Hot 100. Unguarded would be certified gold in September 1985, and platinum in June 1986.

In 2007, Unguarded was reissued and digitally remastered by Grant's new record label, EMI/Sparrow Records. The remastered edition is labeled with a "Digitally Remastered" logo in the 'gutter' on the CD front.

This was the final album to be recorded at Caribou Ranch, which was owned by former Chicago producer/manager James William Guercio before the infamous March 1985 fire that destroyed the studio's control room.

Personnel

  • Amy Grant: lead vocals, background vocals (2, 3)
  • Michael W. Smith: Yamaha GS2 (2, 3, 8), Memorymoog (3)
  • Robbie Buchanan: Roland Jupiter 8 (1), synthesizers (1, 4-7, 10), synthesizer bass (1, 10), sound effects (4), drum programming (4), synthesizer programming (5), Yamaha DX7 (8), acoustic piano (10), track arrangement (10)
  • Shane Keister: synthesizers (1, 7, 9), acoustic piano (1), explosion (2), synthesizer programming (3), Yamaha GS1 (3, 8), Fender Rhodes (5), Memorymoog (6), Fairlight (8)
  • Dann Huff: electric guitars (1-10), guitar solo (4, 5)
  • Jon Goin: electric guitars (2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9), acoustic guitar (10)
  • Michael Landau: electric guitars (2, 4, 7, 9), guitar solo (10)
  • Paul Jackson, Jr.: electric guitars (7)
  • Mike Brignardello: bass guitar (2-9)
  • Paul Leim: drums (1, 2, 3, 5-10), drum programming and drum overdubs (4), LinnDrum programming (7)
  • Lenny Castro: percussion (2, 6, 8, 10)
  • Larry Williams: synthesizer and saxophone (7)
  • Diana Hanna: background vocals (1, 3, 8)
  • Bill Champlin: background vocals (1, 7)
  • Tommy Funderburk: background vocals (1, 2, 6, 7)
  • Gary Chapman: background vocals (1, 3, 6, 8)
  • Chris Harris: screams (1), background vocals (8)
  • Gary Pigg: screams (1), background vocals (8)
  • Kathy Burdick: screams (1)
  • Tom Kelly: background vocals (2 ,4, 6, 9)
  • Richard Page: background vocals (4, 9)
  • Steve George: background vocals (4, 9)
  • Chris Eaton: background vocals (5)
  • Donna McElroy: background vocals (8)
  • Kim Fleming: background vocals (8)
  • Production

  • Producer: Brown Bannister
  • Executive producers: Michael Blanton, Dan Harrell, Gary Chapman
  • Engineered and mixed by Jack Joseph Puig
  • Assistant engineers: Kevin Burns, Steven Ford, Dan Garcia, Alan Henry, J.T., Richard Markowitz, Mike Ross, Clark Schleicher
  • Mastered by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Art direction and design: Kent Hunter
  • Photography: Mark Tucker
  • Stylist: Julie Miller
  • Cover

    To further heighten Grant's visual appeal, A&M released Unguarded with four different covers, respectively labeled W, O, R, and D. When the album was issued on compact disc, the 'D' variation became the standard version for the cover.

    Awards

    GMA Dove Awards

    Grammy Awards

    Songs

    1Love of Another Kind3:23
    2Find a Way3:29
    3Everywhere I Go4:36

    References

    Unguarded (Amy Grant album) Wikipedia