Adrian Snell – Midnight Awake – 1983

This is Adrian’s 9th studio album but this one isn’t quite as easy listening as his previous albums. I would even venture to say there’s 4 or 5 AOR tracks on this album. We recently got the entire Snell record collection and I simply can not believe how many albums this guy did. But here’s my question. How does a guy who had over 24 albums on major labels, most of which are in the easy listening category…… how did he never have a CCM single? I mean mathematically should have had quite a few. Don’t tell me it’s because of talent because if he didn’t have any talent he wouldn’t have had record deals for over 20 albums. I can point to several artists who were talented who could only get a one album deal. This guy had over 20 record deals. I don’t know, I’m just baffled at this. I’ve asked a few artists about it and they had no idea and were quite surprised also. They had nothing but good to say about Adrian. Oh well back to the album I kind of like this one, I’m generally not a fan of his work because it’s not my style but this album has a couple really good tracks. If you prefer his easy listening worship oriented style there’s lots of that here too so let’s call this one a cross over album.

Tracklist
1 – Who’s Laughing Now – 3:20
2 – Still Your Heart – 4:50
3 – Light On The Road – 3:55
4 – Rejoice – 3:50
5 – Shelter From The Storm – 4:05
6 – Start Over – 3:00
7 – Heart Of The Father – 4:29
8 – Come In From The World – 2:57
9 – Midnight Awake – 3:22
10 – Fill My Life – 3:55

Credits
Arranged By [String & Track], Bass – Tim Smith
Arranged By [Track], Keyboards, Synthesizer – John Lawry
Backing Vocals – Alician McInnes, Barry Crompton, Mo Stanway, Tom Douglas
Design, Typography – Wagstaff Design Associates
Drums – Joe English
Electric Guitar – George Cocchini, Norman Barrett
Engineer [Overdubs & Vocals] – Colin Owen
Engineer [Overdubs & Vocals], Acoustic Guitar – Terry Rowley
Engineer [Tracks] – Joe Wilson
Executive-Producer, Backing Vocals – John Pac
Keyboards, Backing Vocals – Adrian Snell
Mastered By – Jim Loyd
Mixed By – Bob Clark
Photography By – Slideffects
Producer – Ray Nenow
Saxophone – Donnie “Sax” Sanders

Companies, etc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Pilgrim America Records
Copyright © – Pilgrim America Records
Distributed By – The Benson Company, Inc.
Produced For – Primacy Productions
Recorded At – Master’s Touch
Mixed At – Great Circle Sound
Mastered At – Masterfonics

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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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