Here in America

About Here in America

Here in America is a CD compilation of early songwriting demos and rare live recordings of concert performances given by American singer-songwriter Rich Mullins as he toured across America in 1987 with song collaborator Steve Cudworth (vocals/guitar) and Kyle Stevens (drums/vocals). Released posthumously on May 6, 2003, six years after his death, "Here in America" allows listeners to enjoy excerpts from Rich Mullins concerts prior to the release of "Awesome God" in 1988, which inevitably propelled him, as a recording artist, to a higher level of recognition by the CCM industry. The album comes with a Bonus DVD with two parts – "Live at Studio B", a 1997 concert with a Ragamuffin Band; and "12 Short Stories", which was recorded in February 1994 (although the DVD misidentifies it as 1993) during a two-day seminar led by Rich Mullins and Beaker at Family Broadcasting Corporation in South Bend, Indiana. Several segments of footage left off the release were made available publicly in 2018 on YouTube due to the efforts of a Mullins' fan online petition the previous year. more »

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1999

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Saints and children we have gathered here to hear the sacred story 
And I'm glad to bring it to you with my best rhyming and rhythm 
Cause I know the thirsty listen and down to the waters come 
And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America 

And if you listen to my songs I hope you hear the water falling 
I hope you feel the oceans crashing on the coast of north New England 
I wish I could be there just to see them, two summers past I was 
And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America 

And if I were a painter I do not know which I'd paint 
The calling of the ancient stars or assembling of the saints 
And there's so much beauty around us for just two eyes to see 
But everywhere I go I'm looking 

And once I went to Appalachia for my father he was born there 
And I saw the mountains waking with the innocence of children 
And my soul is still there with them wrapped in the songs they brought 
And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America 

And I've seen by the highways on a million exit ramps 
Those two-legged memorials to the laws of happenstance 
Waiting for four-wheeled messiahs to take them home again 
But I am home anywhere if You are where I am 

And if you listen to my songs I hope you hear the water falling 
I hope you feel the oceans crashing on the coast of north New England 
I wish I could be there just to see them, two summers past I was 
And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America"

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Rich Mullins

Richard Wayne "Rich" Mullins (October 21, 1955 – September 19, 1997) was an American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter born in Richmond, Indiana. He had two sisters and two brothers. He died in a car crash on September 19th, 1997. One of the last songs he recorded before his death was “The Breaks” in 1995. more »

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