You Deliver Me Explained

You Deliver Me
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Selah
Cover:	Selah_-_You_Deliver_Me_Cover.jpg
Released:	August 25, 2009
Recorded:	2009
Studio:	Platinum Lab Recording and Prime Recording (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre:	Christian, Inspirational
Length:	55:34
Label:	Word/Curb
Prev Year:	2006
Next Title:	Hope of the Broken World
Next Year:	2011

You Deliver Me is Selah's seventh studio album. It features a cover of Hillsong Worship's "Hosanna". The album was released August 25, 2009.

Critical reception

Andree Farias of AllMusic concludes his review with, "Selah is perhaps the only unoriginal true original left in Christian music, a group that sticks to its classic guns while everyone else chases the latest flavor of the moment."

Dale Lewis reviews the album for TitleTrakk and begins, "Selah, best known for their contemporary hit "You Raise Me Up," returns with a very personal and poignant album in You Deliver Me."^[1]

Suzie Brock of Cross Rhythms gives the album 8 out of a possible 10 and writes, "Throughout the whole album the standard of the lead vocals and harmonies is very high, with every song being touching in a different way. Piano is featured heavily in the arrangements which are refreshingly contemporary. Selah's personnel have changed considerably down the years but they retain a slick professionalism and a winning way of mixing old hymns and new material."

Track listing

• Track information and credits verified from the album's liner notes.^[2]

Personnel

Selah

• Allan Hall – backing vocals (1-9, 11, 12, 14), acoustic piano (1-3, 5-7, 9-15), arrangements (1-3, 5-7, 9-15), lead vocals (14)
• Amy Perry – lead vocals (1-3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15), backing vocals (1-9, 11, 12, 14)
• Todd Smith – lead vocals (1-7, 9-14), backing vocals (1-12, 14, 15), arrangements (1-3, 5-7, 9-15)

Musicians

• Jason Kyle – arrangements (1-3, 5-7, 9-15), additional keyboards (3), additional backing vocals (11)
• Tim Lauer – accordion (2, 7, 12, 14)
• Charlie Judge – keyboards (3), Hammond B3 organ (3), programming (3), strings (3)
• Bernie Herms – acoustic piano (4, 8), keyboards (4), arrangements (4, 8)
• Gordon Mote – keyboards (7), Hammond B3 organ (11)
• Adam Lester – guitars (4, 8)
• Trevor Morgan – acoustic guitar (4)
• Jakk Kincaid – acoustic guitar (5, 11)
• Aaron Sands – bass guitar (3)
• James Gregory – bass guitar (4)
• Tony Lucido – bass guitar (8)
• Dan Immel – upright bass (11)
• Noah Hungate – drums (3)
• Dan Needham – drums (4, 8)
• Eric Darken – percussion (2, 3, 5, 7, 10)
• Paul Mills – string arrangements (1, 2, 6, 7, 14)
• Jim Gray – string arrangements and conductor (4, 8)
• Carl Gorodetzky – string contractor (4, 8)
• David Angell – strings (1, 2, 6, 7, 14)
• Monisa Angell – strings (1, 2, 6, 7, 14)
• Carolyn Bailey – strings (1, 6)
• David Davidson – strings (1, 2, 6, 7, 14), violin solo (14)
• Conni Ellisor – strings (1, 6)
• Anthony LaMarchina – strings (1, 6)
• John Catchings – strings (2, 6, 7, 14), cello (12, 14)
• Jonathan Yudkin – strings (3)
• Jim Grosjean – strings (6)
• Pamela Sixfin – strings (6)
• Alan Umstead – strings (6)
• Catherine Umstead – strings (6)
• The Nashville String Machine – strings (4, 8)
• Nickie Conley – choir vocals (3, 11)
• Louis Cross – choir vocals (3, 11)
• Janet Kenyon – choir vocals (3, 11)
• Jack Smith – lead and backing vocals (10)
• Molly Smith – backing vocals (10)

Production

• A&R – John Ozier and Bryan Stewart
• Producers – Allan Hall, Jason Kyle and Todd Smith (Tracks 1-3, 5-7 & 9-15); Bernie Herms (Tracks 4 & 8).
• Engineers – Joe Baldridge, Danny Duncan, Bernie Herms, Jason Kyle and Bill Whittington.
• String Engineers – Daewoo Kim and Brent King
• Assistant Engineers – Travis Brigman, Matt Coles and Lowell Reynolds.
• Drum Editing on Track 3 – Joshua Keith
• Mixed by Jason Kyle
• Mastered by Doug Sax and Sangwook Nam at The Mastering Lab (Ojai, CA).
• Art Direction and Design – Lee Wright
• Photography – Reid Rolls

Charts

Chart (2009)	Peak position
scope=row	US Billboard 200^[3]	66
scope=row	US Top Christian Albums (Billboard)^[4]	4

Awards

In 2010, the album was nominated for a Dove Award for Inspirational Album of the Year at the 41st GMA Dove Awards.^[5]

The song "Hosanna" was nominated for Inspirational Recorded Song of the Year as well as the Worship Song of the Year at the 41st GMA Dove Awards.^{[6] [7]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: You Deliver Me by Selah . https://web.archive.org/web/20150908205847/http://www.titletrakk.com/album-cd-reviews/you-deliver-me-review-selah.htm . usurped . September 8, 2015 . Lewis . Dale . TitleTrakk . 24 February 2020 .
2. You Deliver Me . Selah . liner notes . 2009 . . D2-79138.
3. Selah Chart History – Billboard 200 . September 11, 2009 . Billboard . February 24, 2020 .
4. Selah Chart History – Top Christian Albums . September 11, 2009 . Billboard . February 24, 2020.
5. Web site: Inspirational Album of the Year . 21 February 2010 . The Christian Post . 24 February 2020 .
6. Web site: Inspirational Recorded Song of the Year . 21 February 2010 . The Christian Post . 24 February 2020 .
7. Web site: Worship Song of the Year . 21 February 2010 . The Christian Post . 24 February 2020 .