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By the time Never Alone was released, Amy Grant’s career had been accelerating as she had evolved to become one of the most popular names in the emerging contemporary Christian music industry. Signs of her maturing talent and songwriting ability were becoming more apparent on her third studio album as she entered the eighties era, a time when pop gospel would make its big debut in the mainstream culture.
The timidity and innocence once evident in her earlier works were set aside for a more strident, confident collection of songs that would approach the sophistication of mainstream recordings already in the market. The album opens with Look What Has Happened To Me, a pleasant, light pop-jazz tune with much more ambitious rhythmic styling than her typical past fare. It sets the tone for the upcoming tracks like Walking Away With You, It’s A Miracle and the hard-rocking Too Late.
In keeping with her mellower tone, familiarity breeds comfort on such songs as So Glad and Family that are in keeping with her acoustic style. James Taylor’s pop-folk influence can be felt on the appealing That’s the Day.
Two personal highlights for this blogger are All I Ever Have To Be and If I Have To Die; the latter is an ambitious, conviction-laden power ballad that calls out to believers to re-evaluate their faith and sense of sacrifice. The former is a prime example of Amy’s inherent strength as a songwriter. Her ability to communicate a thought or emotion is performed with such sincerity that the listener is compelled to believe that there are no greater words to perfectly emulate his or her own feelings.
The album is capped off with yet another novelty song, Say Once More (not to be confused with a completely different song of the same name on her Lead Me On album eight years later). A light, melodic, calypso-styled track, it is at once amateurish and crowd-pleasing with very limited instrumentation. She can be forgiven for constantly including these novelty tunes on all her earlier albums as the eighties were a time of experimentation in music, a trend that I think true music lovers miss as modern music shuns innovation and a willingness to try alternate approaches to the creative process, in its stead favoring stern seriousness and humorless convention. Give the eighties props for being the last era of true musical creativity.
A great album from a great artist and the last of her studio albums to wallow in relative obscurity before the tide turns and her career explodes.
Track listing
Look What Has Happened to Me
So Glad
Walking Away with You
Family
Don’t Give Up on Me
That’s the Day
If I Have to Die
All I Ever Have to Be
It’s a Miracle
Too Late
First Love
Say Once More
