Blame it all on Michael Card. So says John Michael Talbot about this album, "Cave Of The Heart": On our “Brother to Brother” project we exchanged steel string guitars. I gave him the guitar I used on “The Regathering,” he gave me a guitar he had used on many albums and taken on a missionary trip to China. It is a beautiful, yet powerful instrument that brings out both my contemplative and more aggressive and contemporary sides.
“That night I wrote the first song on this project, “Smaller Than Small.” After that, the others came quickly...the parts to the Mass, then “Cave Of The Herat” and “The Way Suite.” Last came “Inflame The Fire” and “Common Fire”. Musically the collection is a return to my earlier projects like “The Painter” and “The Lord’s Supper,” and even before to “The New Earth” and “John Michael Talbot.”