Love & Mercy is the seventh studio album by
Christian singer-songwriter
Kathy Troccoli. It was released on April 29, 1997 on
Reunion Records.[3][4][5] The lead single "Love One Another" features Troccoli and 40 plus Christian artists like
Amy Grant,
Sandi Patty,
Michael W. Smith and
Carman. The song was released commercially as a CD single on March 18, 1997 to Christian retail stores in advance of the album's release and the single's proceeds went to His Touch Ministries in
Houston, Texas, which is a non-profit organization that was established to educate the church, provide support groups for
HIV victims, create teams to visit
AIDS patients and provide housing for men, women and children suffering from the illness. The album's third single "A Baby's Prayer" is a
pro-life song that Troccoli and Scott Brasher wrote that explores the
abortion issue from the perspective of an unborn child.[6] "A Baby's Prayer" would give Troccoli her first two Dove Award wins for Inspirational Song of the Year (one as artist, the other as writer, shared with co-writer Brasher) at the
29th GMA Dove Awards.[7]Love & Mercy reached number 7 on the
Top Christian Albums, number 6 on the
Heatseekers Albums and number 170 on the
Top 200 Albums charts in Billboard magazine, giving Troccoli her first crossover chart appearance on the latter.
Track listing
"I Call Him Love" (Ty Lacy, Kevin Stokes, Joanna Carlson) - 4:07
"Water into Wine" (Grant Cunningham, Matt Huesmann) - 3:38
^Brothers, Jeffrey Lee, ed. (1999). CCM Hot Hits: Christian Hit Radio - 20 Years of Charts, Artist Bios and More.
CCM Books. p. 166.
ISBN0-8230-7718-7.
Love & Mercy is the seventh studio album by
Christian singer-songwriter
Kathy Troccoli. It was released on April 29, 1997 on
Reunion Records.[3][4][5] The lead single "Love One Another" features Troccoli and 40 plus Christian artists like
Amy Grant,
Sandi Patty,
Michael W. Smith and
Carman. The song was released commercially as a CD single on March 18, 1997 to Christian retail stores in advance of the album's release and the single's proceeds went to His Touch Ministries in
Houston, Texas, which is a non-profit organization that was established to educate the church, provide support groups for
HIV victims, create teams to visit
AIDS patients and provide housing for men, women and children suffering from the illness. The album's third single "A Baby's Prayer" is a
pro-life song that Troccoli and Scott Brasher wrote that explores the
abortion issue from the perspective of an unborn child.[6] "A Baby's Prayer" would give Troccoli her first two Dove Award wins for Inspirational Song of the Year (one as artist, the other as writer, shared with co-writer Brasher) at the
29th GMA Dove Awards.[7]Love & Mercy reached number 7 on the
Top Christian Albums, number 6 on the
Heatseekers Albums and number 170 on the
Top 200 Albums charts in Billboard magazine, giving Troccoli her first crossover chart appearance on the latter.
Track listing
"I Call Him Love" (Ty Lacy, Kevin Stokes, Joanna Carlson) - 4:07
"Water into Wine" (Grant Cunningham, Matt Huesmann) - 3:38
^Brothers, Jeffrey Lee, ed. (1999). CCM Hot Hits: Christian Hit Radio - 20 Years of Charts, Artist Bios and More.
CCM Books. p. 166.
ISBN0-8230-7718-7.