Wayne Watson – New Lives For Old – 1982

This is Wayne’s third album and was really the one that gave us a glimpse of what was to come for him. While he had a CCM charting single on his previous album this album is where he really broke out with 3 CCM charting singles. “New Lives For Old” made it to #5, “The Sacrifice” to #6, and “People Of God made it to #21. This would be the album that put Wayne on the path to superstardom in the CCM genre. Oh and did I mention he was still producing all The Harvest albums at this point. Pretty good to be producing another bands successful albums while putting out your own and touring. At this point Wayne was certainly one of the hardest working members of the industry. The album continues his easy listening style but that genre of CCM was where most the money was so I don’t blame him.

Tracklist
1 – All The King’s Men – 4:02
2 – The Sacrifice – 4:48
3 – Roll On – 3:09
4 – People Of God – 3:03
5 – Take All Of Me – 3:54
6 – New Lives For Old – 5:19
7 – Never Give Up – 4:05
8 – In Those Eyes – 4:37
9 – The Greatest Is Love – 4:13
10 – Light Of The World – 3:01

Credits
Accordion – Jim Alderman
Arranged By [Strings], Conductor – Don Wyrtzen
Art Direction – Bob McConnell
Bass Guitar – Darrell Cook
Classical Guitar – Rex Thomas
Drums – Keith Edwards, Terry Westbrook
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Jerry McPhereson
Engineer [Strings] – Bob Whyley
Executive-Producer – Phil Brower
Mastered By – JL
Percussion – Russell Dunlap
Photography By – Ken Kim
Piano [Acoustic], Electric Piano – Allen Mesko
Producer, Arranged By, Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals – Wayne Watson
Producer, Arranged By, Engineer, Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals – Brian Tankersley
Recorder – Fletch Wiley
Synthesizer [Yamaha CS-80] – Paul Mills

Companies, etc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Singspiration
Copyright © – Singspiration
Recorded At – Rivendell Sound Recorders
Recorded At – Pinebrook Recording Studio
Mastered At – Masterfonics
Pressed By – Electrosound Group Midwest, Inc.

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Author: Ray Mansfield

One of the founding cowboys of Real 80s CCM. Been listening to this stuff since 1978.

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