Music Review

Legacy...Hymns & Faith (2002)

Amy Grant
Reviewed by Chris Willman | May 31, 2002
EW's GRADE
B

Details Release Date: May 21, 2002; Lead Performance: Amy Grant

This might be more credible as a labor of love if Grant bothered to credit the late, great songwriters who composed the 18th- and 19th-century hymns that make up most of the album. (Four newer songs suffer no such anonymity.) Slights toward Isaac Watts aside, there's enough stylistic diversity -- Americana, Celtic rock, and Lanoisesque chamber music, as well as Sunday-morning solemnity -- to make Legacy transcend your average trip down Methodist memory lane.

Originally posted May 31, 2002 Published in issue #656 May 31, 2002 Order article reprints

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