''Never Say Dinosaur'' is a

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dedicated to

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band

Petra Petra ( ar, ٱلْبَتْرَاء, Al-Batrāʾ; grc, Πέτρα, "Rock", Nabataean Aramaic, Nabataean: ), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu or Raqēmō, is an historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan. It is adjacent to t ...

. The album includes 11 revisions and re-imaginings of classic Petra songs and one original composition by Kevin Smith of DC Talk. ''Dinosaur'' contained an eclectic lineup of artists which, at the time, highlighted "some of the best new bands in Christian music." The album title is a pun on Petra's fourth studio album, '' Never Say Die''. It is also a pun on the title of Petra's irrelevance and age, who at the time had been performing for nearly twenty-five years, by rejecting comparisons of the band with extinct

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s. The album was released by

Star Song Records Star Song Communications is a Christian record label that was started in 1976 by Wayne Donowho, who recruited his friend Darrell Harris. It gained notoriety when it issued Resurrection Band's ground-breaking debut album, Awaiting Your Reply in 19 ...

in 1996. They worked with the band during most of the 1980s through part of the band's most successful tenure.

Track listing

Personnel

* Executive producer - Darrell A. Harris * Co-executive producers -

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* Mastered by Steve Marcussen at Precision Mastering,

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* Project coordinator - Debby Austin

References

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