Straight Ahead (Amy Grant album)

Straight Ahead
Studio album by Amy Grant
Released	April 6, 1984
Recorded	1983–1984
Studio	Caribou Ranch, Nederland, Colorado The Bennett House, Franklin, Tennessee Bullet Recording, Nashville, Tennessee; Mama Jo's Studio, North Hollywood, California Bill Schnee Studio, North Hollywood, California Air Studios, London, England
Genre	Contemporary Christian music
Length	38:36
Label	Myrrh
Producer	Brown Bannister
Amy Grant chronology
A Christmas Album (1983) Straight Ahead (1984) Unguarded (1985)
Singles from Straight Ahead
"Angels" Released: 1984

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Cross Rhythms	[2]

Straight Ahead is the sixth studio album by Christian music artist Amy Grant, released in 1984.

Straight Ahead was the follow-up to Grant's ground-breaking 1982 album Age to Age. Containing songs that were more aggressive than the ones found on Age to Age, Straight Ahead was not as commercially successful as its predecessor. Nonetheless, it still topped Billboard's Christian album chart for 61 weeks, knocking Age to Age from the number-one position. The song "Angels" was also a No. 1 Christian radio hit for 13 weeks, and won a Grammy Award for "Best Gospel Performance, Female." Straight Ahead would be certified gold in 1985. The song "Thy Word" is based on Psalm 119:105.^[3]

In 2007, Straight Ahead was reissued and digitally remastered by Grant's new record label, EMI/Sparrow Records. The remastered edition is labeled with a "Digitally Remastered" logo in the 'gutter' on the CD front.^[4]

Straight Ahead was the first Christian album to chart on the Billboard 200 chart. A&M reissued it in 1985, just as Grant was appearing on the Grammy Awards performing "Angels".