Mini-EP: Welcome Home

Composer and lyricist - Kathy Brigman Haupt
Composed September 17, 1985
Initially released, June 2024 on Hymns and Songs of My Mother
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This mini-EP is avalable from our online marketplace (as is Hymns and Songs of My Mother.) For the link to our online marketplace, where you can preview and/or purchase digital download, click on Store Access.

This is a folk influenced Contemporary Christian song. Although it is a very different style from the rest of the nostalgic, traditional hymns and songs selected for the album, Hymns and Songs of My Mother, this song became a favorite of David's mother. Both because of its beauty, and because it was written for her sister's funeral by her sister's grandchild.

Ms. Haupt wrote this original Contemporary Christian song on September 17, 1985, (the day after her grandmother suddenly died) and performed it for the funeral of her grandmother, David's mother's sister. As a result, David's mother wanted this song included as one of the songs on the album Hymns and Songs of My Mother.

Because of its distinctly different beauty and appeal from traditional hymns, i.e., as a CCM song, we decided the 2 very different arrangements should be made available separately as a Mini-EP. It is 6 minutes and 02 seconds long and includes:

1. The version recorded in 1998 by the author and composer. This closely conforms to Kathy's solo original, but adds:
   • A simple duet by David on refrains, and
   • Simple bass guitar.
2. The new arrangement created for the album, with:
   • Verses, mostly solo, but including short duets with the composer and author,
   • Women's choruses, and
   • A more intricate and larger acoustic accompaniment with multiple instruments.

Many thanks to Ms. Kathy Brigman Haupt, the composer and author of "Welcome Home" for granting TortoiseClimbing Audio™ permission to create an arrangement and make the 1^st public recording of her song, "Welcome Home".

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