Worship & Faith
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Worship & Faith is the title of an album released in 2003 by American country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Randy Travis
Randy Travis
Randy Travis is an American country music singer and actor. Since 1985, he has recorded 20 studio albums and charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, 22 of which were number one hits...

. It is the third gospel music
Gospel music
Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....

 album of his career, as well as his third release on Word Records
Word Records
Word Records is a Christian record label based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a division of Word Entertainment , which, itself is co-owned by Warner Music Group and Curb Records...

. The album is composed of twenty covers of traditional gospel tunes. Worship & Faith is certified gold by the RIAA, although its only single, "Above All", failed to chart.

Track listing

  1. "He's My Rock, My Sword, My Shield" (Traditional) – 2:30
  2. "Farther Along
    Farther Along (song)
    "Farther Along" is a Southern Gospel song published by the Stamps-Baxter Music Company.-History:The lyrics to the song were written in 1911 by Rev. W. A. Fletcher, an itinerant preacher, while he was travelling to the Indian Territories by train...

    " (J.R. Baxter, W.B. Stevens) – 3:39
  3. "How Great Thou Art
    How Great Thou Art (hymn)
    "How Great Thou Art" is a Christian hymn based on a Swedish poem written by Carl Gustav Boberg in Sweden in 1885. The melody is a Swedish folk song. It was translated into English by British missionary Stuart K. Hine, who also added two original verses of his own composition. It was popularized by...

    " (Stuart K. Hine) – 4:29
  4. "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" (Traditional) – 4:37
  5. "Shall We Gather at the River?" (Robert Lowry) – 3:16
  6. "You Are Worthy of My Praise" (David Ruis) – 4:18
  7. "Love Lifted Me" (James Rowe, Howard Smith) – 3:11
  8. "Softly and Tenderly" (Will L. Thompson) – 3:19
  9. "Sweet By and By"(Sanford Filmore Bennett, Joseph Philbrock Webster) – 2:27
  10. "Blessed Assurance
    Blessed Assurance
    "Blessed Assurance" is a well-known Christian hymn. The lyrics were written in 1873 by blind hymn writer Fanny J. Crosby to the music written in 1873 by Phoebe P. Knapp.-History:...

    " (Fanny J. Crosby, Phoebe Knapp
    Phoebe Knapp
    Phoebe Knapp was a composer of music for hymns and an organist.Knapp was born in New York City. Her parents were Walter C. Palmer and Phoebe Worrall Palmer...

    ) – 3:28
  11. "I'll Fly Away
    I'll Fly Away
    "I'll Fly Away", is a hymn written in 1929 by Albert E. Brumley and published in 1932 by the Hartford Music company in a collection titled Wonderful Message...

    " (Albert E. Brumley
    Albert E. Brumley
    Albert Edward Brumley was a shape note gospel music composer and publisher.Brumley was born near Spiro, Oklahoma on October 29, 1905. Pre-Dustbowl Oklahoma was primarily made up of sparse agricultural communities; Brumley's family was no different. He spent much of his early life chopping and...

    ) – 2:59
  12. "Turn Your Radio On" (Brumley) – 2:37
  13. "Open the Eyes of My Heart" (Paul Baloche) – 3:55
  14. "In the Garden" (C. Austin Miles) – 3:21
  15. "Above All" (Baloche, Lenny LeBlanc) – 4:14
  16. "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
    Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)
    "Can the Circle Be Unbroken " is the title of a country/folk song reworked by A. P. Carter from the hymn "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" by Ada R. Habershon and Charles H. Gabriel. The song's lyrics concern the death, funeral, and mourning of the narrator's mother.The song first gained attention due...

    " (Charles Gabriel, Ada R. Habershon) – 3:08
  17. "We Fall Down" (Chris Tomlin) – 3:40
  18. "Peace in the Valley" (Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey) – 3:58
  19. "The Unclouded Day" (Josiah K. Alwood) – 2:56
  20. "Room at the Cross for You" (Ira Stanphill) – 1:30

Chart performance

Chart (2003) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Christian Albums 4
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 9
U.S. Billboard 200 90
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