Today Amy is happily settled into another round of motherhood and celebrating the comforts of home and family. Approaching the anniversary marking her 25th year in the business of making music, Amy Grant has finally come full circle. A 2002 release, LEGACY HYMNS & FAITH, brings Amy both in her music and her faith back to her roots. A collection of favorite hymns (and some newly penned tunes) provides a nostalgic look back at the songs that, as Amy recalls, truly shaped the woman she is today and the truths she holds in her heart. Produced by long time friend and producer Brown Bannister, together with Vince Gill, the music is a comfortable mix of Americana, folk, bluegrass and gospel. Critics might call this musical move a departure for Amy, but in reality, it's a returning. Amy Grant is home again. And happy. And it is these songs that have provided the soundtrack for her life all along its journey.
Amys much-anticipated 2003 release, "Simple Things" was three full years in the making. Was it worth the wait? You bet. Emotional, honest songs, glistening productions, arrangements that sweep through fields of strings and settle into a nest of solo acoustic guitarevery detail of her seventeenth album exceeds the her standards, which are as high as standards come in this business.
Which brings Simple Things into full circle. From the personal to the global, from the playfulness of "Happy" through the impassioned duet shared by Amy and Vince on "Beautiful," Simple Things is perhaps the most intimate glimpse ever offered into her heart. With tracks brilliantly produced by Keith Thomas, Brown Banister and Wayne Kirkpatrick, this music seems to rush through storms and sunlight before coming to rest in "After the Fire," a summary of all that we've experienced on our own and heard on this discsimple, soft, and quietly triumphant.
In the fall of 2004, the first "best of" collection from Amy to span her pop career, Greatest Hits 1986-2004 (A&M/UTV/UMe), was released featuring two new recordings, "Come Be With Me," featuring Keb Mo and co-written by Beth Nielsen Chapman (Faith Hills "This Kiss"), and "The Water," co-written by Grant and with husband Vince Gill on electric guitar.
Following on the heels of the GOLD certification of "Legacy...Hymns and Faith," Amy again released in May of 2005 a CD of hymns, "Rock of Ages." The new recording contained several classic hymns such as, "Sweet Will of God," "Abide With Me," "Joyful, Joyful," "I Surrender All," as well as the title track, "Rock of Ages," which is a duet with Vince Gill.
Today following 25 years of sharing her music around the world, Amy hosts her first primetime network television series "Three Wishes" on NBC. Wishes come true in the series providing the hopes and dreams of deserving people in towns all across America.
It seems a lifetime ago that a young Nashville girl picked up her guitar and her heart and decided she had something to say to the world. Today Amy Grant would tell you she never meant to leave a legacy, she was just doing what she loved. But those who have been touched by her and her music know differently. Amy Grant knows how to capture a heart. She's been sharing her life, her music and her faith for decades--and somehow, through that amazingly graceful and vulnerable spirit she's caught up thousands in her circle. And that's been the story of Amy Grant's life.


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