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Surrounded By Mercy

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This CD was over and above all that I expected. I have several of Kim's CD's and absolutley love her love for Jesus which is so evident in her music. This CD captured my heart with the lyrics and music of true praise, love, and worship of our precious Savior.
Awesome!!!

If you only buy one Christian CD, make it THIS ONE! Kim Hill is an inspiration. I wake up singing these songs!

I've seen Kim Hill live. She can belt out a song with passion and persona. Her interpretations of classics are interesting and inspiring. Too bad you won't find any of this on Surrounded by Mercy.

When corporations want to promote a no-talent cutie-pie, they stick her in a high-tech studio with an overzealous engineer. Somewhere in a sea of overdubs, pitch correction, reverb and cranked up background music, a new pop idol emerges. Apparently, somebody tried to do the same thing with Kim Hill on Surrounded by Mercy, which begs the question, "Why?".

Kim is a genuine talent and doesn't need all that over-production. The CD also featured faux audience interaction to simulate the feel of live worship. This falls into the category of "flawed concept" and has "management decision" written all over it.

Many of the songs start out pretty good. Then the all the production kicks in and Kim Hill gets lost in a downward spiral of too many instruments, too much processing and too many background singers. Yawn.

Kim, take your Gibson and a mini disc recorder to your basement. Play the songs you want to play and sing them the way you want to sing them. Release it on a CD and I'll buy it and play it over and over again. I'm sure tens of thousands of other people will as well.