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.
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.