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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.[1]

You Deliver Me
Studio album by Selah
Released	August 25, 2009
Recorded	2009
Genre	Christian, Inspirational
Length	55:34
Label	Word/Curb
Producer	Jason Kyle Todd Smith Allan Hall Bernie Herms
Selah chronology
Bless the Broken Road: The Duets Album (2006) You Deliver Me (2009) Hope of the Broken World (2011)

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Cross Rhythms	[2]

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."[3]

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."[2]

Track listing

• Track information and credits verified from the album's liner notes.[4]

Personnel

Selah

• Allan Hall – backing vocals (1-9, 11, 12, 14), acoustic piano (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9-15), arrangements (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9-15), lead vocals (14)
• Amy Perry – lead vocals (1, 2, 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, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9-15)

Musicians

• Jason Kyle – arrangements (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 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 – guitar (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

• Producers – Allan Hall, Jason Kyle and Todd Smith (Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 & 9-15); Bernie Herms (Tracks 4 & 8).
• A&R – John Ozier and Bryan Stewart
• 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
US Billboard 200[5]	66
US Top Christian Albums (Billboard)[6]	4

Awards

In 2010, the album was nominated for a Dove Award for Inspirational Album of the Year at the 41st GMA Dove Awards.[7]

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.[8][9]

References

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