Songs of the Heart

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Songs of the Heart
Songs of the Heart cover
Studio album by Daniel Amos
Released 1995
Recorded The Green Room
(Huntington Beach, California)
Desert Moon Studios
(Anaheim, California)
Genre Rock
Label BAI Records
Producer(s) Terry Scott Taylor
Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos chronology
BibleLand
(1994)
Songs of the Heart
(1995)
Mr. Buechner's Dream
(2001)


Songs of the Heart is the title of a 1995 album by rock band Daniel Amos, released on BAI Records.

The album leads listeners on a musical journey traveling down legendary Route 66 with the fictional couple Bud & Irma Akendorf. The concept was partially conceived after discovering an LP hanging on the wall of their rehearsal hall. The LP, which was released in the early 1960s and entitled Songs of the Heart, was by a singing gospel duo by the name of Bob and Elsa Beckendorf. The cover featured the couple pictured in Oak Creek Canyon. The band, inspired by the cover, decided to explore the lives of a fictional couple, which they named Bud and Irma Ackendorf. The released cover of D.A.'s Songs of the Heart is an exact copy of the original LP by the Beckendorf's, with the artist name replaced. In an interesting turn of events, It turned out that the Beckendorf's were from Sedona, Arizona - which happened to be the real life home of Terry's paternal grandparents.

Songs was later re-envisioned in the form of a 3-CD book set, entitled "When Everyone Wore Hats." "Hats" included the entire original release plus, the entire album rerecorded as an acoustic coffeehouse band, three bonus tracks, an interview about the album, new photos, liner notes and a short story by Terry Scott Taylor.

Contents

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  1. "Cant Take My Eyes Off Of You" (Gaudio/Crewe)
  2. "The Glory Road" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  3. "Get Into The Bus, Aloha" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  4. "Evangeline" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  5. "Uneasy Lies the Head of the Confidence Man" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  6. "The Organ Bar" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  7. "Donna Nietche and her Super Race of Kick Boxing Uber Parrots" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  8. "Our Night to Howl, Time to Go Dancing" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  9. "Sins of the Fathers" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  10. "Turn This Off" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  11. "Loveland" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  12. "When Everyone Wore Hats" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)
  13. "My Hand To God" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler/McTaggart)

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[edit] Additional musicians

[edit] Production notes

Daniel Amos
Terry Scott Taylor | Ed McTaggart | Greg Flesch | Tim Chandler
Marty Dieckmeyer | Mark Cook | Steve Baxter | Jerry Chamberlain | Rob Watson | Alex MacDougall
Production
Al Perkins | Jonathan David Brown | Mike Stone | Gene Eugene
Ojo Taylor | Tom Gulotta | Eric Townsend | Jason Townsend | The Green Room
Discography
Studio albums: Daniel Amos | Shotgun Angel | Horrendous Disc | ¡Alarma!
Doppelgänger | Vox Humana | Fearful Symmetry | Darn Floor - Big Bite
Kalhöun | MotorCycle | BibleLand | Songs of the Heart | Mr. Buechner's Dream
Live Albums: Live Bootleg '82 | Preachers From Outer Space!
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