Never Picture Perfect

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Never Picture Perfect
Studio album by Rich Mullins
Released 1989
Recorded 1989
OmniSound Recording Studio
(Nashville, Tennessee)
Big Dog Studio
(Wichita, Kansas)
The Pond
(Franklin, Tennessee)
Genre Contemporary Christian Music
Length 37:27
Label Reunion Records
Producer Reed Arvin
Rich Mullins chronology
Winds of Heaven, Stuff of Earth
(1988)
Never Picture Perfect
(1989)
The World as Best as I Remember It, Volume One
(1991)

Never Picture Perfect is the fourth solo album by songwriter Rich Mullins and was released in 1989 on Reunion Records.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Rich Mullins.

[edit] Side one

  1. "I Will Sing" – 1:27
    • Appeared on compilation Songs 2 1999
  2. "Hope To Carry On" – 2:33
  3. "While The Nations Rage" – 4:50
    • Appeared on compilation Songs 1996
  4. "First Family" – 3:06
  5. "Alrightokuhuhamen" – 4:12
    • Appeared on compilation Songs 1996

[edit] Side two

  1. "Higher Education and The Book of Love" – 5:47
  2. "Bound To Come Some Trouble" – 3:41
    • Appeared on compilation Songs 2 1999
  3. "The Love Of God" – 2:48
    • Appeared on compilation Songs 2 1999
  4. "My One Thing" – 3:42
    • Appeared on compilation Songs 1996
  5. "Somewhere" – 4:32
    • Appeared on compilation Songs 2 1999
  6. "The Love Of God (reprise)" – 0:49

[edit] Charts

[edit] Radio singles

Year Single Chart Position
1990 "My One Thing" U.S. Christian 1 for 6 weeks
1990 "While the Nations Rage" U.S. Christian 2
1990 "Alrightokuhuhamen" U.S. Christian 4
1991 "Somewhere" U.S. Christian 8

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Production notes

  • Procuced by Reed Arvin.
  • Executive Producers: Michael Blanton, Terry Hemmings.
  • Engineered by Bill Deaton.
  • Additional Engineer: Brent King.
  • Mixed at Digital Recorders, Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Recorded at OmniSound Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee; Big Dog Studio, Wichita, Kansas; The Pond, Franklin, Tennessee.
  • Mastered by Hank Williams at Master Mix, Nashville, Tennessee.
  • String Arrangements by Reed Arvin.
  • Art Direction and Design by Jackson Design.
  • Photography by Mark Tucker.
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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