A Ragamuffin Band

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A Ragamuffin Band
Origin Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Genre(s) Christian Music, Folk, Rock
Years active 1993 – 1999
Label(s) Reunion, Myrrh
Members
Rich Mullins
Rick Elias
Jimmy Abegg
Mark Robertson
Aaron Smith

A Ragamuffin Band is a musical group founded by Rich Mullins in 1993, when he gathered friends from other bands to back him on his "A Liturgy, a Legacy, & a Ragamuffin Band" album. The band continued to record and tour with Mullins, and even carried on after his 1997 death. The group's name is derived from Brennan Manning's 1990 book The Ragamuffin Gospel, which defines ragamuffins as "the burdened, the wobbly and weak-kneed, the inconsistent, unsteady disciples... the smart people who know they are stupid... the honest disciples who admit they are scalawags".


[edit] Discography

Rich Mullins
Discography
Solo: Rich Mullins (1986) | Pictures in the Sky (1987) | Winds of Heaven, Stuff of Earth (1988) | Never Picture Perfect (1989)
The World as Best as I Remember It, Volume One (1991) | The World as Best as I Remember It, Volume Two (1992)
With a Ragamuffin Band: A Liturgy, a Legacy, & a Ragamuffin Band (1993) | Brother's Keeper (1995) | The Jesus Record (1998)
Other: Behold the Man (1981) | Canticle of the Plains (1997) | Awesome God: A Tribute to Rich Mullins (1998)
Compilations: Songs (1996) | Songs 2 (1999) | Here in America (2003)
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