Amy Grant, who is known as the queen of Christian pop and has multiple Grammy and Dove Awards, released her highly anticipated new project “Lead Me On Live 1989” last Friday (Oct. 6).
Grant’s new release was recorded during her Lead Me On World Tour (1988-89) and offers many unreleased recordings, as well as songs from her “Lead Me On (20th Anniversary Edition),” which was released in 2008.
The project allows fans to hear songs that were kept in a vault for more than 30 years.
According to a press release, “All salvageable film footage from the 1989 show is finally seeing the light of day, the first of which is the music video for ‘Wait For The Healing’ now available on YouTube.”
Grant’s team plans to release a total of 15 full-length music videos “from the original film footage along with fun shorts, reels, behind the scenes and more.”
Grant won a Grammy Award for “Best Gospel Vocal Performance” for a female in 1988 for her album “Lead Me On.” She took home three Dove Awards in 1989 for “Lead Me On,” including Artist of the Year.
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“When I first heard the recordings from 1989 from the Lead Me On Tour, the thing that bowled me over was just what a talented band I had on the road,” Grant said in an interview. The band included up-and-coming CCM superstar Michael W. Smith.
The CCM hitmaker shared that she has “loved every band configuration I’ve ever had on the road and all are so special to me, but there was something unique about that group of players and singers during the Lead Me On Tour.”
She further explained that “there were so many of us on the stage and so many types of instrumentation like harmonica solos, flute solos, saxophone, mandolins, lots of keyboards and stacks of vocals, it just felt like one big family reunion every night.”
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Recalling the late-1980s tour and the scope of its production, Grant said, “The energy of the crowd felt like an infinite number eight with energy coming from us on stage, it circling through the audience and then coming back to us. And it brought back so many amazing memories. I’m so grateful we captured that moment in time.”
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