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Continuing our series focusing on the talented singers/songwriters I've had the privilege of working with over the years, this is the second in a series of three tracks featuring Mia Tepper. The recordings featured here were (are?) to be part of a CD project that Mia and I were working on together called "Fearfully and Wonderfully Made", which included a mix of original music and re-workings and arrangements of a number of our favorite hymns and worship songs. You can read more about that project last month.

"Fearfully" features a number of our favorite hymns and "Blessed Assurance" is probably the one that has come out the best. We bounced a lot of ideas off each other while arranging this. Mia gives a heartfelt performance here, one of her best. I also feel comfortable saying that I consider this to be one of the classiest performances on piano I've ever done - every note, phrasing and flourish chosen with utmost care.

Enjoy!

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