What is the The Jesus Record?
I first heard of this project in May ’97 while visiting with Mark Robertson about This Train and the Canticle Of The Plains (see [RichMailList 133]). During that conversation Mark told me that Rich was very excited about what was going to be his next album, but at that time there wasn’t any “for-public-knowledge” info to share. Every song would be specifically about Jesus, and for the most part, straight from scripture. Originally Rich wanted all the Ragamuffins to write a song to bring to the project and also sing their own songs, but they convinced him that people wanted to hear him sing on a “Rich Mullins” album, not the Ragamuffins. Some of the songs that were to be on this new project were included in the summer ’97 tour that they were in Wichita to rehearse. Fast forward to September 1997. The week before Rich died, he was in Chicago at the Roswell East Studio with Mark Robertson and Mitch McVicker and a few other Ragamuffins recording Mitch’s solo CD. After one particular vocal
