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Combining euro-pop stylings with her rock roots, Rebecca delivers a message of hope and God's faithfulness in her first new studio recording in several years. This album will resonate with listeners in profound ways.
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Average Customer Rating:  (18 reviews)
(CD)
Release Date: November 22, 2005
Label: ForeFront Records
Distributed By: Chordant (EMI)
Publisher: Chordant (EMI)
Length: 4.96 inches
Width: 5.6 inches
Height: 0.4 inches
Weight: 0.4 (lbs)
Language:
Vocal Range: NA
Category: CONTEMPORARY
EAN / ISBN-13: 0094631156625
UPC: 094631156625
Product Code: 350117
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God Help Me
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Alive
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You Are Loved
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Shadowlands
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Love Being Loved by You
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I Need You
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Beautiful Stranger
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Thank You w/ Tobymac
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Take All of Me
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Forgive Me w/ BarllowGirl
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I Can Trust You
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Lest I Forget |
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Rebecca St. James is a Grammy Award winning vocalist who has produced 7 albums and authored three best-selling books: "40 Days with God, 40 More Days with God, and "Wait for Me. Nominated for four 2003 Dove Awards, Rebecca devotes her life to a strong issue-focused ministry around the world to young adults and families.
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Average Customer Rating: (18 reviews)
 Good! May 22, 2008
Reviewer: Anonymous from MA
This is a really another good Cd by Rebecca! God bless!
Mysterious Ways October 9, 2006
Reviewer: Anonymous from IL
This album and the song You are Loved is particularly meaningful to my cousin and I. It confirmed a continuing bond to my aunt now that she has passed on. This song has brought comfort and peace to us.
AWESOME June 5, 2006
Reviewer: Adam from Oregon
This CD has some of my favorite RSJames songs on it. Really well thought out and moving. Great job!
Rebecca Can Rock May 29, 2006
Reviewer: Anonymous from hampton
Rebecca has really stepped up and she put out a rockish Album, I loved the CD and thought it was awesome! from the rockin song You are loved to the slow but great song Forgive Me featuring Barlowgirl It is an Awesome CD
wow! May 4, 2006
Reviewer: Anonymous from
rebecca st. james has something to show everyone. teens and adults alike. she has a beautiful voice.it is soo easy to fall in love with her voice. all of her songs are touching and have a meaning. you can tell she is living 4 Christ! i also realy want her book She Teen. She has a heart for God and that is what makes her special!
If I Had One Chance To Tell You Something March 16, 2006
Reviewer: Anonymous from Revere,MA
My little girl is 4 years old and she love every song, she dance and sing and is so special see my kid learning to sing for Jesus.
Does not dissapoint! March 11, 2006
Reviewer: Anonymous from California
I was not to excited about this Cd because even though I love Rebecca St. James, I did not like her earlier albums and I heard that this CD was a return to that style. The day it came out I listend to it on the I-tunes and loved it! I did not want to downlad it because I like having the lyric sheet. I bought this Cd soon after and have been enjoying it often. The song "Alive" is an awesome song the perview does not do it justice you have to hear the song to enjoy it! SO but the CD!
she rocks! March 8, 2006
Reviewer: Anonymous from can, ont
not just her voice and writing abilities but the fact she included barlow girl on her CD this tops the line!
Excellent CD! March 2, 2006
Reviewer: Grace from Grove, OK
I love this cd! The lyrics to each one of the songs definitly speaks volumes. I would say that this is probably my favorite cd that Rebecca St. James has produced.
This CD ROCKS! January 28, 2006
Reviewer: from WI
This is the best CD yet from Rebecca St. James!
The lyrics are catchy and beautiful. I cried the first time I heard If I Had One Chance To Tell You Something. The song with Barlowgirl is so cool and so is the one with Toby Mac.
"If I Had Once Chance...", It is to Tell You This is a GREAT CD! January 25, 2006
Reviewer: Susan from Humboldt, TN
Rebecca St. James is a veteran of the Christian music scene with a couple of gold records, a Grammy Award, numerous prestigious titles including “Favorite Female Artist” named by CCM magazine and “Best Female Artist of 2005″ at Campus Life Magazine, and a recipient of Christian Music’s highest honor, the Dove Award. She is a spokesperson for sexual purity and a respected author as well. These are amazing accomplishments for one at the ripe old age of 28 and yet she says “I’m not called to be a star…God has called me to be a servant.”
St. James recently released “If I Had One Chance to Tell You Something” (11/22/05). The last CD with original material from St. James goes way back to “Transform”, released in 2000. There have been a couple of worship CDs along the way and a greatest hits package, and some tracks found on various compilations CDs, but at last we have something new and original. “If I Had One Chance…” is well worth the wait.
Filled with solid, scripture-backed lyrics, (a St. James trademark), and strong music that is thoughtfully produced, this CD is destined to help add to St. James collections of awards.
This CD was touted before its release as a return to the “rock-style of her “God” album”, and that was welcome news to this reviewer. After numerous listenings, I would say that yes, it captures some of the raw rock edge of the “God” album, but more so, it is a combination of that raw rock sound St. James burst onto the CCM scene with almost ten years ago and the mature symphonic-layered, melodic hooks that made her “Pray” CD a stand-out. It is loaded with powerful, heart piercing lyrics that explore the extravagant, deep and passionate love that God has for us.
“God Help Me” kick starts the album with a raw edged guitar and keyboard mix driven by a bass line that puts an exclamation point on each line of the chorus, “God Help Me!” The steady 2 and 4 drumming keeps the song rocking along until the bridge when St. James, the singer, is left sounding almost vulnerable, crying out to God to help her, with a simple and quiet line from the keyboard. There is a gradual build from that point adding cymbal, guitar, cello and full band carrying the cry for help to end the track.
This well balanced CD contains more guitar driven tracks such as “Alive”, “You Are Loved” (which took me back to “I’ll Carry You” from her “Pray” album), “Love Being Loved by You”, “Beautiful Stranger”, and “I Can Trust You”. These are songs that get the blood pumping and the volume turned up! “Shadowlands” is a tune that waltzes along in 6/8 time with a very melodic line from the lead guitar that lifts the main vocal melody and holds it up high, as if lifting up an offering, a thank you for the hope God always provides to those who love him.
“I Need You” is introduced with symphonic stringed instruments that segue nicely into the poetic and melodic, and at times, breathy heart song to God. With help from Tobymac on “Thank You”, St. James sings over a funky, bass driven beat accented with rhythm guitar. I find this tune a bit repetitive and one of the very few lowlights on “If I Had One Chance…”
“Take All of Me” starts with sustained chords on the keyboard over which St. James sings her breathy prayer. The drums then pick it up and the song is birthed into unapologetic rock anthem of a worship song as she professes her unashamed love for Jesus Christ.
Tour mates Barlow Girl lend vocal support and blended harmonies to “Forgive Me”, a piano ballad with floating string arrangements accompanying the melody that draw on the deepest emotion of a hurting soul. The last track, “Lest I Forget”, keeps a haunting slow beat and soft chords that support a simple melody. This song crescendos, or builds, to a climax and ends with the signature St. James whisper, an encouragement to always remember how good God has been to us.
This CD is well worth the wait. St. James gets credit for her hand in penning all but one song on this, possibly her best, CD. The amazing talent and spiritual maturity, of this young woman, including her joys and vulnerabilities, is laid right out for world to listen to and embrace. A complete album in that it offers lyrics grounded in scripture and personal experience that are well presented through excellent music. It has a raw rock edge, as well as polished ballads that serve to touch the emotional center in all of us. Great to listen to while driving with the windows rolled down and the music cranked up, and yet, one can also curl up in a warm blanket and worship the Lord through heart prayers spawned through the quiet and personal songs St. James shares.
AWESOME cd for teen girls! January 11, 2006
Reviewer: Anonymous from New York
Rebecca really speaks to everyone but also teens (and those teen at heart). The music features barlow girl and tobymac with words that express everything we feel and music that keeps you from being left out with your friends who listen to rap and pop- rebecca stands clear from the crowd with catchy music.
Maturing Sound December 31, 2005
Reviewer: Joshua from Sembach, Germany
RSJ has taken yet another forward step in her career with this album. The lyrics demonstrate a deepening relationship with Jesus Christ infused with a more edgy, mature tone. Certainly her best thus far.
Returning to roots December 16, 2005
Reviewer: Jeremy from Kansas
I have not been big of fan of Rebecca except for her live CD. Then last month I went to the National Youth Workers Convention in Nashville and she was debuting much of this music in concert. This CD is awesome. It is one of my favorite new CDs. I believe that it is definitely a must have.
this wonderful Cd November 11, 2005
Reviewer: Brittany from Alaska
I think this cd would be one of the best songs that ever played... it sure touches thousands upon thousands of people....God is definetly using Rebecca to spread his message... God wants us to keep our hope in God and that God is always faithful even if we dont feel liike hes listening or something....
More then words October 2, 2005
Reviewer: Brianna Coleman from North Louisiana
Highly anticipated, and hoped for; Rebecca St. James now has another studio album, it's been since 2000 and I can tell you its worth the wait! I've had the chance to hear a couple of her new songs that will be on this new cd from St. James titled, "If I Had One Chance To Tell You Something" And if only I could buy everyone a copy of this cd, I would do it in a heart beat. At a price this low, you really have nothing to loose. Wether you've admired Rebecca for her stand and musical talent for years, or you just stumbled upon this cd; you will be touched and moved like never before from a cd. It will reach the deepest depths of your heart, whispering truths like, "You Are Loved' and that in Chirst you can truly be "Alive". Other songs Rebecca has written from her heart, reveal struggles shes been through which she shares in "God Help Me" and there is a beautiful song that will open your eyes to see the extravagant love that God has for you in her communion song titled, "Lest I Forget". This cd is more then mearly notes and words, its the heart of a young woman whom God has used to change the lives of thousands, and to shine in the dark world around her. If I had one chance to tell you something right now, it would be to buy this cd for yourself and someone you care about.
Huge comeback September 17, 2005
Reviewer: from Holland
I think Rebecca will make a huge comeback with this album, the songs I've heard already are really good and the lyrics are more powerful than ever. Especially You Are Loved is really touching. I think this song should be heard by the whole world... a lot of people need to know that they are loved: because they don't feel so. If you liked Rebecca's God, Pray & Transform albums you'll love this one. I'd say: buy it, it's worth it.
I cant wait for this cd!! September 13, 2005
Reviewer: Greta from CO.
I wanted this cd realllly baad! And then I saw Barlowgirl was on it, and then I wanted it even more!! All of her other albums have been absolutley incredible. And She has such a heart for Christ, she's definently been an influence in my life. And I will definently be buying this cd!
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