''40 Acres'' is the 1999 release from

Caedmon's Call Caedmon's Call is a contemporary Christian band which fused traditional folk with world music and alternative rock. They were composed of Cliff Young (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), Danielle Young (vocals), Garett Buell (percussion), Jeff Mil ...

and made the band known to a wider, and even international, audience. The album explores the way God's redemption intersects with the places and ways people live their daily lives. The album was recorded at The Castle,

Franklin, Tennessee Franklin is a city in and county seat of Williamson County, Tennessee, United States. About south of Nashville, it is one of the principal cities of the Nashville metropolitan area and Middle Tennessee. As of 2020, its population was 83,454 ...

with engineers Steve Bishir, Glenn Rosenstein, and Mike Purcell and mixed at East Iris Recording Studios - now known as House of Blues Nashville,

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with engineers David Leonard, Charlie Brocco, Mike Purcell, and Ed Szymczak. "There You Go" is on the ''

Digital Praise Digital Praise was a Christian-themed video game developer. It has produced '' Dance Praise'', '' Guitar Praise'', ''Adventures in Odyssey'', ''VeggieTales'' ''Dance, Dance, Dance'', and other video games. It won the Addy Award The American Adve ...

'' PC game '' Guitar Praise''.

Critical reception

Track listing

Personnel

Caedmon's Call * Cliff Young – vocals, guitars *

Derek Webb Derek Walsh Webb (born May 27, 1974) is an American singer-songwriter who first entered the music industry as a member of the band Caedmon's Call, and later embarked on a successful solo career. As a member of the Houston, Texas-based Caedmon's C ...

– vocals, guitars * Danielle Young – vocals * Randy Holsapple –

Hammond B3 organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs ...

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

* Aric Nitzberg – bass * Todd Bragg – drums * Garett Buell – percussion Guest musicians *

Matt Rollings Matt Rollings is a Grammy Award-winning American composer, keyboard player and record producer. Known mainly for playing in Lyle Lovett's Large Band, Rollings has worked with many artists, not all country. Matt won the 'Best Traditional Pop Voca ...

– pianos, Hammond B3 organ *

Phil Madeira Philip Kamm Madeira (born 1952) is an American songwriter, producer, musician and singer. He was raised in Barrington, Rhode Island, and attended Taylor University, graduating in 1975. His songs have been recorded by The Civil Wars, Buddy Mill ...

– accordion,

lap steel guitar The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Unlike the usual manner of playing a traditional ...

* Keith Rodger – electric guitar * Glenn Rosenstein – acoustic guitar, 12-string electric guitar,

dulcimer The word dulcimer refers to two families of musical string instruments. Hammered dulcimers The word ''dulcimer'' originally referred to a trapezoidal zither similar to a psaltery whose many strings are struck by handheld "hammers". Variants of ...

* John Catchings – cello * Blair Master – string arrangements * Nashville Recording Symphony – strings Production * Glenn Rosenstein – producer, engineer *

Robert Beeson Robert Beeson is a music executive. He founded Essential Records in 1992, home to artists Jars of Clay and Third Day, along with Caedmon's Call, Bebo Norman and FFH. He also created the City On a Hill series. He became Senior VP A&R for Provid ...

– executive producer * Steve Bishir – engineer * Mike Purcell – engineer * Jeff Robinson – engineer * David Leonard – mixing * Ken Love – mastering

Release details

* 1999, US, Essential Records 83061-0486-2, release date April 13, 1999, CD

References

{{Authority control Caedmon's Call albums 1999 albums Essential Records (Christian) albums