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| Personnel Chris Leuzinger Adam Lester guitar Jim Johnson steel guitar Dan Muckala hammer dulcimer keyboards programming background vocals Jessie Hale fiddle Barry Bales upright bass Will Salles drums Thad Cockrell Natalie Hemby background vocals Audio Mixer F Reid Shippen Recording information Echo Mountain Asheville NC Photographer Joseph Anthony Baker In the world of contemporary Christian music releasing an album that you could easily apply the descriptor understated to is a rare thing indeed Yet that s just what Brandon Heath has done on his fourth full-length In place of the brash histrionics and overwrought production that mark the work of so many of his peers Heath keeps things tempered only allowing the dramatics to wander in for well dramatic effect And the single most glaring moment of bombast actually works remarkably well Over the course of the song Dyin Day the singer songwriter builds on a vision of inviting the broken and sinful among us into his home for dinner It all builds to a rousing finish of string-soaked distorted guitar and splashing cymbals This is the song to incite the congregation to action The rest of the album though feels downright muted in comparison to that one brief minute of action Even the most radio-friendly near-rocker Jesus in Disguise stays resolute with the chorus slinking in where most would have it explode upon the listeners Heath sounds particularly great when he ratchets things way back as on the alt-country-tinged title track and the folksy ode to his grandfather Paul Brown Petty Robert Ham |
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