You Deliver Me is Selah's seventh studio album. It features a cover of Hillsong Worship's "Hosanna". The album was released August 25, 2009.[1]

You Deliver Me
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 25, 2009
Recorded2009
GenreChristian, Inspirational
Length55:34
LabelWord/Curb
Producer
Selah chronology
Bless the Broken Road: The Duets Album
(2006)
You Deliver Me
(2009)
Hope of the Broken World
(2011)

Critical reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic      [1]
Cross Rhythms          [2]

Andree Farias of AllMusic concludes his review with, "Selah is perhaps the only unoriginal true original left in Christian music, a group that sticks to its classic guns while everyone else chases the latest flavor of the moment."

Dale Lewis reviews the album for TitleTrakk and begins, "Selah, best known for their contemporary hit "You Raise Me Up," returns with a very personal and poignant album in You Deliver Me."[3]

Suzie Brock of Cross Rhythms gives the album 8 out of a possible 10 and writes, "Throughout the whole album the standard of the lead vocals and harmonies is very high, with every song being touching in a different way. Piano is featured heavily in the arrangements which are refreshingly contemporary. Selah's personnel have changed considerably down the years but they retain a slick professionalism and a winning way of mixing old hymns and new material."[2]

Track listing edit

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Into My Heart/Fairest Lord Jesus"Harry Dixon Clarke/Traditional3:44
2."How Deep The Fathers Love For Us"Stuart Townend3:24
3."You Deliver Me"
  • Mike Post
  • Brian Nash
  • J. David Pearson
4:06
4."Hosanna"Brooke Fraser4:56
5."Standing on the Promises (Medley)
  • Russell Kelso Carter
  • Anthony J. Showalter
  • Elisha Hoffman
  • Elisha Hoffman
3:15
6."The Lords Prayer (Deliver Us)"Traditional3:52
7."Beautiful Terrible Cross"
  • Todd D. Smith
  • Tony Wood
  • Chad Cates
3:34
8."Unredeemed"
  • Tony Wood
  • Chad Cates
  • Brian David Petak
4:47
9."My Jesus I Love Thee"William Ralph Featherston3:18
10."I Have Decided" (feat. Jack & Molly Smith)
  • Jason Kyle Saetveit
  • Todd D. Smith
2:41
11."Glory To His Name"Elisha A. Hoffman4:02
12."Depth Of Mercy"
  • Tony Wood
  • Chad Cates
3:34
13."I Surrender All"
  • Judson W. Van DeVenter
  • Winfield S. Weeden
2:53
14."God Be With You"Jeremiah Rankin3:18
15."I Will Carry You (Audrey's Song)"
  • Todd D. Smith
  • Angela Carole Smith
  • Christa Wells
4:10
Total length:55:34
  • Track information and credits verified from the album's liner notes.[4]

Personnel edit

Selah

  • Allan Hall – backing vocals (1-9, 11, 12, 14), acoustic piano (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9-15), arrangements (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9-15), lead vocals (14)
  • Amy Perry – lead vocals (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15), backing vocals (1-9, 11, 12, 14)
  • Todd Smith – lead vocals (1-7, 9-14), backing vocals (1-12, 14, 15), arrangements (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9-15)

Musicians

  • Jason Kyle – arrangements (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9-15), additional keyboards (3), additional backing vocals (11)
  • Tim Lauer – accordion (2, 7, 12, 14)
  • Charlie Judge – keyboards (3), Hammond B3 organ (3), programming (3), strings (3)
  • Bernie Herms – acoustic piano (4, 8), keyboards (4), arrangements (4, 8)
  • Gordon Mote – keyboards (7), Hammond B3 organ (11)
  • Adam Lester – guitar (4, 8)
  • Trevor Morgan – acoustic guitar (4)
  • Jakk Kincaid – acoustic guitar (5, 11)
  • Aaron Sands – bass guitar (3)
  • James Gregory – bass guitar (4)
  • Tony Lucido – bass guitar (8)
  • Dan Immel – upright bass (11)
  • Noah Hungate – drums (3)
  • Dan Needham – drums (4, 8)
  • Eric Darken – percussion (2, 3, 5, 7, 10)
  • Paul Mills – string arrangements (1, 2, 6, 7, 14)
  • Jim Gray – string arrangements and conductor (4, 8)
  • Carl Gorodetzky – string contractor (4, 8)
  • David Angell – strings (1, 2, 6, 7, 14)
  • Monisa Angell – strings (1, 2, 6, 7, 14)
  • Carolyn Bailey – strings (1, 6)
  • David Davidson – strings (1, 2, 6, 7, 14), violin solo (14)
  • Conni Ellisor – strings (1, 6)
  • Anthony LaMarchina – strings (1, 6)
  • John Catchings – strings (2, 6, 7, 14), cello (12, 14)
  • Jonathan Yudkin – strings (3)
  • Jim Grosjean – strings (6)
  • Pamela Sixfin – strings (6)
  • Alan Umstead – strings (6)
  • Catherine Umstead – strings (6)
  • The Nashville String Machine – strings (4, 8)
  • Nickie Conley – choir vocals (3, 11)
  • Louis Cross – choir vocals (3, 11)
  • Janet Kenyon – choir vocals (3, 11)
  • Jack Smith – lead and backing vocals (10)
  • Molly Smith – backing vocals (10)

Production edit

  • Producers – Allan Hall, Jason Kyle and Todd Smith (Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 & 9-15); Bernie Herms (Tracks 4 & 8).
  • A&R – John Ozier and Bryan Stewart
  • Engineers – Joe Baldridge, Danny Duncan, Bernie Herms, Jason Kyle and Bill Whittington.
  • String Engineers – Daewoo Kim and Brent King
  • Assistant Engineers – Travis Brigman, Matt Coles and Lowell Reynolds.
  • Drum Editing on Track 3 – Joshua Keith
  • Mixed by Jason Kyle
  • Mastered by Doug Sax and Sangwook Nam at The Mastering Lab (Ojai, CA).
  • Art Direction and Design – Lee Wright
  • Photography – Reid Rolls

Charts edit

Chart (2009) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[5] 66
US Top Christian Albums (Billboard)[6] 4

Awards edit

In 2010, the album was nominated for a Dove Award for Inspirational Album of the Year at the 41st GMA Dove Awards.[7]

The song "Hosanna" was nominated for Inspirational Recorded Song of the Year as well as the Worship Song of the Year at the 41st GMA Dove Awards.[8][9]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Andree, Farias. You Deliver Me at AllMusic. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  2. ^ a b Brock, Suzie. "Selah - You Deliver Me". crossrhythms.com. Cross Rhythms. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  3. ^ Lewis, Dale. "You Deliver Me by Selah". TitleTrakk. Archived from the original on September 8, 2015. Retrieved 24 February 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ You Deliver Me (liner notes). Selah. Word/Curb. 2009. D2-79138.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  5. ^ "Selah Chart History – Billboard 200". Billboard. September 11, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
  6. ^ "Selah Chart History – Top Christian Albums". Billboard. September 11, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
  7. ^ "Inspirational Album of the Year". The Christian Post. 21 February 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  8. ^ "Inspirational Recorded Song of the Year". The Christian Post. 21 February 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  9. ^ "Worship Song of the Year". The Christian Post. 21 February 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2020.