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Behind the Eyes Era
1997-1998


  1. Singer Grant keeps it simple, reverent
    Review - April 7, 1997 - San Antonio Express News
    Amy's participation in the Billy Graham Crusade held in San Antonio, TX.

  2. Amy Grant has a friend in James Taylor...
    ...who steamrolls her favorite song
    Interview - June 16, 1997 - The Tennessean
    "So I sent this song up that I was really excited about. And I didn't hear from him....."

  3. Amy Grant to Release 'BEHIND THE EYES' on September 9
    First Single "Takes A Little Time" Hits Radio July 30
    Announcement - June 21 1997 - A&M News
    "It was time to go below the surface, to make a record that could truly shake up people's perceptions of Amy Grant. What I found was that it shook me up most of all."

  4. Amy Grant: Behind Those Eyes
    Interview - July, 1997 - Myrrh's 25th Anniversary Issue
    "It's just songs. That's all it is. It's just a bunch of songs."

  5. Symphony will join Grant for 19-city Christmas tour
    Announcement - July 8, 1997 - The Tennessean
    Amy's Tennessee Christmas is hitting the road!

  6. Amy Grant's Awakening
    Interview - August/September - Aspire
    "There's a dividing line between friends and acquaintances. It's interesting to think about who in my life, when they die, will change my life forever...."

  7. Unguarded
    Interview - September - CCM Magazine
    Is Amy Grant the apple of Christian music's eye or the outcast on her knees?

  8. In Her Own Words--Singer rediscovers her music
    Interview - September 5, 1997 - Nashville Scene
    "I kind of backed away and thought, `What a weird combination, sad and hopeful.' But you know what? That's how a lot of my life feels to me."

  9. A More Serious Amy Grant
    But New Release Really Reflects Woman Within, She Says
    Interview - September 7, 1997 - Richmond Times-Dispatch
    "I'm a firm believer that every song and every album finds its own audience...."

  10. Amy Grant Finds Something Inside
    Review - September 7, 1997 - Dallas Morning News
    Amy Grant as a work-in-process. Who would have thought?

  11. Life Gets Grant 'Behind the Eyes'
    Review - September 8, 1997 - The Tennessean
    What a bummer: life really is difficult.

  12. Amy Grant goes for depth on 'Behind The Eyes'
    Interview - September 12, 1997 - Reuters/Variety
    "I was starting to perceive myself more as a hood ornament than as an artist....''

  13. Talking With ... Amy Grant
    Interview - September 15, 1997 - People Magazine
    Brief interview on Behind the Eyes.

  14. Singer Amy Grant says her sprawling Nashville home is where her heart is
    Interview - October, 1997 - McCall's Magazine
    "My favorite thing to do is just sit in a rocking chair and spread my life out in my lap like an old blanket.."

  15. Amy Grant Intimate Theatre Tour Comes to Detroit
    Tour Announcement

  16. Taking nothing for Granted
    Tour Announcement
    "I think there is a vulnerable feeling as you're putting out a record. Just because you worked so hard on it, hopefully, the songs are heartfelt. I think in most people's bios -- like if you read Madonna's new record, everybody is like, 'Most vulnerable she's ever been!' I think that holds true for every record that every artist does. You know it's vulnerable just to make a record."

  17. A More Complex, Conflicted Amy Grant
    Concert Review
    A casually assured performer, she even willingly accommodated a few zealous fans who shouted out requests. (That would be my request for the "Wallet Song")!

  18. Amy Grant proves Christians can rock
    Concert review
    It's a questionable proposition sending the Heathen Rock Critic to review a Christian rock concert.

  19. The Eyes Have It
    Amy Grant may be the First Lady of Christian music, but she wants you to know that, deep down inside, she's not that different from the rest of us.

  20. Grant gets to the heart and soul of the matter
    Grant doesn't need a bunch of synthesizers to sell her songs. She doesn't need slick producers, and she certainly didn't need that hyperactive light show. Give Amy Grant a guitar (preferably one made by San Diego's Taylor Guitars) and a song she can feel, and she'll make a believer out of you.

  21. Amy Grant: just right for Easter night
    Concert review: Amy Grant, the Paramount Theatre, last night.
    At the root of Amy Grant's success is her sincerity and simplicity. Her fans laid flowers at her feet and she stopped and put them in a basket by her microphone stand. She very likely does the same at every show, but it never felt like grandstanding or a gimmick, just a way of saying "Thank you." She was wholesome without being hokey, commercial without being slick and spiritual without being preachy. She had substance and style and that's no sin.

  22. Tempe, AZ review
    Amy Grant perfectly summed up the appeal of her current tour early during her concert on Thursday: She was doing something a little different.
    The exciting thing about the three-hour show( minus a 20-minute intermission) was its rawness and spontaneity, rare coming from a big, mainstream performer.

  23. Spring Tour Season Blossoming
    With Amy doing a scaled-down tour and Smitty not heading out until fall, there was a clear window.

  24. Grant's showmanship great, but voice, Christian lyrics rule
    Concert Announcement
    AMY GRANT in concert at Kingsbury Hall, Friday evening; one performance only.

  25. Billboard Review
    Album Review, Behind the Eyes

  26. Grant Set Different, But Heartfelt Singer Covers New Territory On A&M/Myrrh
    Billboard Album Review, Behind the Eyes
    However, with the Sept. 9 release of 'Behind The Eyes' on both A&M and Myrrh, listeners will discover that they perhaps didn't really know Grant at all, and this revelation may spawn her most successful album yet.

  27. Billboard Magazine Article
    CCM Crossover Artists

  28. COMMENTARY: Christian Music: Ministry Or Business?
    The Christian music industry is burgeoning. Artists like Jars Of Clay, Kirk Franklin & God's Property, Bob Carlisle, Michael W. Smith, and Amy Grant have all made significant forays into the general market and have rung up stunning sales. Mainstream media has increasingly shone the spotlight on this phenomenon.

  29. Billboard Review
    Single Review, Like I Love You
    AMY GRANT in concert at Kingsbury Hall, Friday evening; one performance only.
    This is but one of numerous strong, single-worthy tunes on Grant's current 'Behind The Eyes' collection.

  30. Chasing Amy
    Concert Announcement
    Life these days for pop music icon Amy Grant seems simple, straightforward and basic, yet beneath the calm surface, so complex.

  31. Five-Time Grammy Award-Winner Amy Grant Headlines 21-Hours Of TV To Help Hospitalized Kids
    Company Press Release
    Amy Grant, will perform a two-hour television concert to kick off CMN Champions, the annual television fund raiser from Children's Miracle Network

  32. Grant wins devotion with concert
    Concert Review
    One of the biggest tests of a performer's comfort with the surroundings comes when someone in the audience screams, "I love you!"

  33. Dallas Concert Review
    In the 21 years since Amy Grant released her first album, she has evolved from promising Christian-music vocalist to pop phenom to, finally, a mature singer-songwriter whose sentiments are worth listening to.

  34. Rock Talk: Amy Grant
    Interview with Amy.

  35. Chasing Amy
    This journalists' experience meeting Amy.

  36. SUCCESS HASN'T SPOILED AMY GRANT
    Concert Review
    Grant had not performed in Utah since she made the big switch from Christian to pop artist. Watching and hearing her sing her melodic-rock songs makes you wonder what all the fuss was about when she announced she was going to "cross over."

  37. Amy Grant: 'Behind The Eyes'
    Album Review
    On "Behind the Eyes," the 38-year-old successfully connects her reputation for contemplative songwriting with her current obsession with breezy pop.

  38. And the Brad WOW fashion award goes to ...
    The Tennessean, September 24, 1998
    Gary Chapman goes to awards show without Amy Grant.

  39. Milk, Where's Your Mustache?
    Famous Faces, 1998
    I may be a pop singer, but soda never helped me climb the charts.

  40. DreamWorks belts Bible with three 'Prince of Egypt' soundtracks
    Special to CNN Interactive, November 24, 1998
    Those unable to wait another month for biblical inspiration and entertainment can satisfy their canonical cravings with not one, but three separate soundtracks.

  41. Artist Biography
    Polygram Release, 1997
    Most performers have trouble making one major transition during their careers, but A&M'sGrammy-winning, multi-platinum recording artist Amy Grant is on her third

  42. Artist Biography
    A&M Records Release, September 1997
    Amy Grant had reached a crossroads.

  43. Holy Moses
    EW Daily News, November 18, 1998
    Amy Grant talks about 'The Prince of Egypt'

  44. A critical look: Main 'Prince of Egypt' album fizzles
    CNN News, November 24, 1998
    "The Prince of Egypt" soundtrack may be swarming with Hollywood's top-tier movie and music personalities, but the main soundtrack is strangely uninspired

  45. Marketing Moses: Three albums of music
    Sacramento Beat Entertainment News, December 13, 1998
    The DreamWorks people knew while making "The Prince of Egypt" that there would be no bendable Moses for a McDonald's Happy Meal

  46. Time for this eagle to fly free
    Star Tribune, November 23, 1998
    Singer Amy Grant released this bald eagle...

  47. Muslim video entertains and educates
    Star Tribune, January 2, 1999
    Despite the tooth-fairy theology of the television show "Touched By An Angel," perhaps a redeeming characteristic is its insistence that there's always hope.

  48. Country stars get the assist as Nashville hockey looks for first goal
    San Diego Union Tribune, January 13, 1998
    Garth Brooks does. So do Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Martina McBride and Lorrie Morgan.

  49. Amy Grant's change in musical direction comes at a price
    San Diego Union Tribune, March 26, 1998
    Like many performers who grew up in an aura of fame, Amy Grant eventually realized that she'd become someone she hardly recognized, someone molded by the expectations of others.

  50. Grant gets to the heart and soul of the matter
    San Diego Union Tribune, April 2, 1998
    You have to give the 37-year-old Grant credit for doing the pop-music thing better than almost anybody.

  51. K-Ci and JoJo's `LIFE' almost didn't have one'
    San Diego Union Tribune, May 14, 1998
    I was writing this song for someone else, actually.

  52. Stations of the cross: Local radio listeners flock to a growing wave of Christian pop, gospel and talk
    Detroit News, August 19, 1997
    "It's an up," explains the 35-year-old Grove. "I listen to all types of music. But if you're having a miserable time at work, it simply makes you feel better."

  53. Sound Judgment
    Free Press News Services, September 21, 1997
    It turns out there's a lot more behind Amy Grant than we thought.

  54. New Jewel album lacking in 'Spirit'
    CNN, November 23, 1998
    Unlike Madonna and Alanis Morissette, Jewel isn't a Janie-come-lately to the quest-for-grace sweepstakes.

  55. Deceased songster wins Dove Award
    USA Today, December 10, 1998
    It was out of character for the late Rich Mullins to covet recognition, though he had always wanted one of the Gospel Music Association's Dove Awards.

  56. Weekend Best Bets: Laugh along with the wacky Judy Tenuta
    December 19, 1997
    Amy Grant Christmas with Michael W. Smith...

  57. Ragamuffins and Jennifer Knapp top best of '98
    Star Tribune, December 1, 1998

  58. Christian music garnered higher visibility in 1998
    Star Tribune, December 26, 1998
    This was Christian music in 1998, a year in which artists lept into the mainstream as never before.

  59. Tom Scheib, reindeer farmer and storyteller extraordinaire
    Star Tribune, December 28, 1997
    For Tom and Elli Scheib, becoming reindeer ranchers in Finland, Minn., was the result of a long, strange -- but natural -- progression of events.

  60. Forget the Fads
    Company Press Release, December 28, 1998
    Popular Diets Offer Quick Fix but Cut Essential Calcium

  61. Amy Grant sings the praises of "3 Seconds to Better Golf"!
    3 Seconds to Better Golf
    Amy Grant likes to unwind on the golf course

  62. Gill hopes 'Key to Life' is his now
    USA Today
    The key to Vince Gill's new album comes in its final track, The Key to Life.

  63. Grumbling Over Goldberg
    New York Archive, September 19, 1997
    Steamed A&M chief could move on to Disney

  64. Music Review
    New York Post, January 27, 1998
    SOUNDS OF WOOD & STEEL

  65. TALKING WITH . . . AMY GRANT
    People Magazine
    Behind the Eyes (A&M), is a collection of introspective songs that are bound to surprise longtime fans.

  66. Soundtracks present princely fanfare
    St. Petersburg Times, December 18, 1998
    One slick music package wasn't enough for the larger-than-life film project by larger-than-life Hollywood and music moguls Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen.

  67. Shania is still the one in Nashville
    The Tennessean, January 5, 1999
    Shania Twain claimed six Grammy nominations Tuesday to lead all Nashville-related acts and place her in a tie for secondoverall.

  68. Country stars assist Predators' goals
    The Tennessean, February 16, 1999
    Oh, sure, Wayne Gretzky skated into Nashville yesterday, but stars glide into the Nashville Arena every hockey night.

  69. Scaffolding ceremony sheds light on Washington Monument
    CNN, March 2, 1999
    WASHINGTON (CNN) -- There is a new sight to see at night in Washington -- scaffolding that was lighted Tuesday to become what some have called "a monument to the Washington Monument."

  70. Music City Access News
    Music City Access, March 3, 1999
    Remember the amazing debut record My Utmost For His Highest?

  71. Amy Grant finding her way on Behind the Eyes
    Free Times" weekly newspaper, Columbia, S.C, June 3-9, 1998
    In the world of Contemporary Christian music, there are few artists more well known than Amy Grant, and fewer still who can tread the line between the sacred and secular music industries as well...

  72. Vince Gill and Friends Play Ball For Belmont University, Nashville Tickets on Sale October 6
    NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/
    The 9th Annual Celebrity Basketball Game and Concert benefiting Belmont University Athletics and The Music Business Program

  73. "Touched by an Angel:the Album" Coming November 3
    NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Oct. 15, 1998
    Wynonna, Bob Dylan, Deana Carter, Amy Grant, Della Reese, and Celine Dion are Among the Major Artists Featured On This Multi-genre Collection

  74. Playing in the brand
    Brandweek; New York; Oct 26, 1998; Davin Seay

  75. AMY GRANT I Will Be Your Friend (4:00)
    Billboard Magazine

  76. Being content is Grant's reward
    Thursday, November 12, 1998, Modesto Bee
    We recently interviewed gospel singer, now pop artist, Amy Grant.