So You Wanna Go Back to Egypt

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So You Wanna Go Back To Egypt
So You Wanna Go Back To Egypt cover
Studio album by Keith Green
Released May 7, 1980
Recorded 1979-1980
Genre Gospel
Length 40:00
Label Pretty Good Records
Producer Bill Maxwell/Keith Green
Keith Green chronology
No Compromise
(1978)		 So You Wanna Go Back To Egypt
 The Keith Green Collection
(1981)

So You Wanna Go Back To Egypt is the third album released by American piano, gospel singer Keith Green, It was released on May 7, 1980.

The album was listed at #49 in the 2001 book, CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music.

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[edit] Making of the Album

Much like most of Green's produced work while he was still alive, the album was produced by Bill Maxwell with minor credits attributed to Keith Green himself. The album was made over a span of several months between 1979 and 1980.

In addition, Bob Dylan, who was a close friend of Green's also helped make the album, contributing his harmonica skills to the track 'Pledge My Head To Heaven'.

This album marked a turning point in Green's career when he realized his principles would no longer allow him to charge money for albums. He negotiated a release from his contract with Sparrow Records and financed So You Wanna Go Back to Egypt by mortgaging his home, charging whatever the recipient was willing to pay. As of May 1982, Green had shipped out more than 200,000 units of his album – 61,000 for free. Green continued this policy for the remainder of his career.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "So You Wanna Go Back To Egypt" – 4:38
  2. "Pledge My Head To Heaven" – 3:55
  3. "If You Love The Lord" – 4:07
  4. "Romans VII" – 3:25
  5. "Lies" – 3:45
  6. "I Want To Be More Like Jesus" – 4:22
  7. "Unless The Lord Builds The House" – 3:57
  8. "Oh Lord, You're Beautiful" – 4:20
  9. "You Love The World" – 2:38
  10. "Grace By Which I Stand" – 4:53

[edit] Miscellanea

  • The song 'Grace by Which I Stand' was covered by solo artist Steve Green for the 1993 Keith Green tribute album No Compromise: Remembering the Music of Keith Green.

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