How You Live is the twelfth album and seventh studio album from contemporary Christian music group Point of Grace. It was released on August 28, 2007 and has achieved critical and commercial success, peaking at #56 on the Billboard 200 and at #4 on the Billboard Christian & Gospel Album Charts.

How You Live
Studio album by Point of Grace
Released	August 28, 2007
Recorded	2006, 2007
Genre	Christian pop
Label	Word Records
Producer	Brown Bannister
Point of Grace chronology
Winter Wonderland (2005) How You Live (2007) Tennessee Christmas: A Holiday Collection (2008)
Singles from How You Live
"All the World" "You Are Good" "How You Live (Turn Up the Music)" "Fearless Heart" "Heal the Wound" "I Wish" "King of the World"
Alternative cover
Deluxe Edition cover

The success of the single "How You Live (Turn Up The Music)" earned the group the Dove Award for Country Recorded Song of the Year. The song's writer, Cindy Morgan, was awarded the Songwriter of the Year award, and the girls were nominated for four more awards. At the performance of the song on the live telecast, the girls were accompanied by Morgan on the piano, and their own Denise Jones on guitar.

This was also the group's last album as a quartet, as Heather Payne announced her retirement in June 2008, after in late 2007 she had given birth to her fourth child, a daughter, Ava.

Due to Payne's departure and the group's increasing popularity within the country music market, Warner Music Group commissioned a re-release of the album, labeled "deluxe edition." This edition added two new songs and an acoustic version of the title track.

Track listing

Personnel

Point of Grace

• Shelley Breen – lead vocals (2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11), backing vocals
• Leigh Cappillino – lead vocals (2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11), backing vocals
• Denise Jones – lead vocals (2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11), backing vocals
• Heather Payne – lead vocals (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11), backing vocals

Musicians

• Blair Masters – keyboards (1-11)
• John Hobbs – acoustic piano (1-11)
• Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar (1-11), banjo (1-11), mandolin (1, 2, 10)
• Tom Bukovac – electric guitar (1-11)
• Jerry McPherson – electric guitar (1, 2, 5, 7)
• George Cocchini – electric guitar (5)
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar (3, 4, 6-9, 11)
• Matt Pierson – bass (1-11)
• Shannon Forrest – drums (1-11)
• Stuart Duncan – fiddle (4, 8, 11)
• Carl Marsh – orchestral arrangements (3, 9)
• James Fitzpatrick – contractor (3, 9)
• City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra – orchestra (3, 9)

Production

• Brown Bannister – producer
• Michael Blanton – executive producer
• Conor Farley – A&R
• Tim Marshall – A&R
• Cheryl McTyre – A&R
• Steve Bishir – recording, mixing (2, 3, 5, 7)
• David Zaffiro – mixing (1, 8-10, 12)
• Gary Paczosa – mixing (4, 6, 11)
• Brandon Bell – mix assistant
• Aaron Sternke – digital editing
• Bill Whittington – digital editing
• Adam Ayan – mastering
• Traci Sterling Bishir – production coordinator
• Katherine Petillo – creative director
• Jeremy Cowart – photography
• David Kaufman – wardrobe

Studios

• Recorded at The Tracking Room, Oxford Sound and Townsend Sound Studios (Nashville, Tennessee).
• Mixed at Seventeen Grand Recording (Nashville, Tennessee); The Puget Sound (Spring Hill, Tennessee); Apollo Sound Productions (Clearwater, Florida).
• Mastered at Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine).

Singles

• "All The World"
• "You Are Good"
• "How You Live (Turn Up The Music)"
• "Fearless Heart"
• "Heal The Wound"
• "I Wish"
• "King of the World"

Music videos

• "How You Live" (Erwin Brothers, directors)
• "I Wish" (Erwin Brothers, directors)

Awards

In 2008, the album won a Dove Award for Rock Album of the Year at the 39th GMA Dove Awards. The song "How You Live (Turn Up the Music)" won the award for Country Recorded Song of the Year.[1]

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