Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. I Believe
2. Peace in the Valley
3. Take My Hand, Precious Lord
4. It Is No Secret (What God Can Do)
5. Milky White Way
6. His Hand in Mine
7. I Believe in the Man in the Sky
8. He Knows Just What I Need
9. Mansion Over the Hilltop
10. In My Father's House
11. Joshua Fit the Battle
12. Swing Down Sweet Chariot
13. I'm Gonna Walk Dem Golden Stairs
14. If We Never Meet Again
15. Known Only to Him
16. Working on the Building
17. Crying in the Chapel
18. Run On
19. How Great Thou Art
20. Stand by Me
21. Where No One Stands Alone
22. So High
23. Farther Along
24. By and By
25. In the Garden
26. Somebody Bigger Than You and I
27. Without Him
28. If the Lord Wasn't Walking by My Side
29. Where Could I Go But to the Lord

Disc 2:

1. Bosom of Abraham
2. Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus/Nearer My God to Thee (Previously Unreleased)
3. We Call on Him
4. You'll Never Walk Alone
5. Only Believe
6. Amazing Grace
7. Miracle of the Rosary
8. Lead Me, Guide Me
9. He Touched Me
10. I've Got Confidence
11. Evening Prayer
12. Seeing Is Believing
13. Thing Called Love
14. Put Your Hand in the Hand
15. Reach Out to Jesus
16. He Is My Everything
17. There Is No God But God
18. I, John
19. Bosom of Abraham
20. Help Me
21. If That Isn't Love
22. Why Me Lord? [Live]
23. How Great Thou Art [Live]
24. I, John [#]
25. Bosom of Abraham [#]
26. You Better Run [#]
27. Lead Me, Guide Me [#]
28. Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus/Nearer My God to Thee [#]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #84683 in Music
• Brand: Bmg
• Released on: 1994-10-25
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .42 pounds

Customer Reviews

Essential listening.
In his book CARELESS LOVE, Peter Guralnick rates this album as a must-have for any fans of Elvis and of American music. He's dead-on correct. This album is unbelievable, and shows a completely overlooked side of Elvis.

These days, Elvis Presley is almost criminally overlooked as an artist -- drowned in a sea of fat jump-suit bad-movie jokes. But what other artist can sing rock n'roll, country, R&B, schlock like "My Way" and gospel music so effortlessly and convincingly? Answer: No one.

"Amazing Grace" suffers from double-album disease, i.e. weaker songs interspersed with heart-stopping tunes. But repeated listens to songs like I,John, Bosom of Abraham, Lead Me, Guide Me, and the soaring How Great Thou Art are without question worth the cost of this 2-CD set. Gospel was the music that moved Elvis most, and you can just feel it in his voice -- the conviction, the faith, the anguish. No music lover should be without this album.

Elvis' real love
I have a large number of Elvis CDs at home but "Amazing Grace" has been getting the most play at home and in the car for about the last six months. Elvis' love of gospel music is legendary and, by all accounts, his knowledge of both white and black gospel acts was staggering. I interviewed Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick in late '98 when "Careless Love" was published and, when asked what he thought Elvis might have been doing had he lived, said that he thought that Elvis would have concentrated on gospel music later in his career, since it was what he really loved singing and was happiest doing. RCA has collected probably 98% of Elvis' gospel recordings on this 2-CD collection, along with a number of previously-unreleased tracks (mostly rehearsals and impromptu recordings). The collection includes excellent liner notes that also lists the original sources for the songs (mostly gospel records that Elvis grew up with by the Statesmen, the Blackwood Brothers, the Golden Gate Quartet, and others). The mastering is excellent, fully revealing the tremendous vocal work of not only Elvis but also of the Jordanaires, the Imperials, the Stamps, and the other vocal groups that backed Elvis on these numbers. I'd like to think that 100 years from now the jokes about Elvis' personal life, his weight problem in his later years, etc. will be largely forgotten and that, instead, he'll be remembered for his terrific music. Though his Sun recordings were probably more revolutionary, his gospel recordings were at least as exciting and probably say a lot more about the man in the end.

Amazing Elvis
This compilation is a must for any fan of gospel music. Elvis was the first contemporary Gospel singer. Sample a few of the music clips and you will the understand why this *Rock Star* was awarded three Grammy Awards for his Gospel music.

The negative to this set is the compilation is not complete. For some reason RCA chose to leave off the song Who Am I that was recorded at American Sound Studios in 1968 and the song I Got A Feelin In My Body recorded at Stax Studios in 1973.

So unfortunately as with many of RCA's box sets you will have to purchase a few more albums to have all the gospel songs.

The positive is they chose to add some rehearsals that were previously unavailable and you can actually feel what Elvis got out of this music and understand why he continued to love gospel music to the day he died.