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''Trust, Love, Pray'' is the fourth studio album from American singer Marilyn Martin, released independently in 2012. The album is a collection of original songs of trials, temptations, love, and faith. For the album, Martin herself stated ''"With all my heart I thank God for helping me find my voice and for the privilege of being His instrument!"'' All of the album's songs were written solely by Martin, except "In the Arms of God" which was written by Eric Kaz and Martin. The album was produced, engineered and mixed by Martin's husband Greg Droman. Hank Williams mastered the album at Mastermix, Nashville. The song "Every Way And Always" received a lot of airplay on Christian and Praise and Worship stations. For her own biography page on her official website, Martin revealed ''"After much time and a world of distractions I started writing again about the things in my life that matter most. My most recent collection of songs is an expression of the absolute joy I feel when singing songs of praise and writing lyrics that explore our human struggle to live in ways that honor God...and the forgiveness we're given through grace when we slip. This may seem an odd turn to those who remember my music, but my hope is that you'll enjoy the music that fills my soul with love and gratitude."'' ==Background== ''Trust, Love, Pray'' became Martin's first released studio album since 1988's ''This Is Serious'', as her country album ''Through His Eyes'' was never released by her label Atlantic Records. After this Martin was dropped from the label, and she withdrew from a solo career. In a 2013 interview with Martin by the All The Goods blog, she recalled the events after her country album was not released. ''"Eventually, my crazy, circuitous path brought me to a place where I just had to stop. I was tired of exploring different musical directions that never felt true to me... until I wrote my first inspirational song."'' In a February 2013 interview with Martin for the blog Old School: Back to the 80s, Martin stated ''"After my two solo albums, I needed to do a bit of soul searching, so I turned down the option Atlantic had given me to do a third album. I was so proud of "Separate Lives", but it seemed like I wasn't capturing that kind of honesty in my music anymore. "Trust, Love, Pray" I finally started writing and singing again and what evolved was spiritual music. My proudest accomplishment so far is my new project, "Trust, Love, Pray", because the songs were written purely from my heart. I had no agendas, no thoughts of whether or not what I was writing would be marketable... just finally singing and writing for the sheer love of it. Nowadays mostly I'm trying to figure out how to market my new album. I have eight songs partially finished for the next one that I'm anxious to get back to, but I really want to focus on getting "Trust, Love, Pray" off the ground."'' In an exclusive interview with Martin by Breathe Cast writer Timothy Yap, Martin also remembered ''"After the traumatic end to my affiliation with Atlantic Nashville I desperately needed to stop. It was the first time I felt confused about what I was supposed to be doing. The worst part was that I felt like I had meandered outside of God's will. For several years I just didn't have the heart to try to write or sing. Then a few years ago my husband decided to teach me how to navigate Garageband on my Mac. It's a program that enables people to create tracks and record vocals. I'm pretty technically challenged but this was like manna from heaven. I started creating tracks and when it came time to think about lyrics all that came to me were expressions of praise and thanksgiving. I was free to express what mattered most to me since I didn't have a label to dictate anything, and I really didn't have a plan to release a record. I was finally just writing and singing for the love of it. I'm halfway finished with songs for my next Christian album. I can't imagine ever singing about anything else!"'' For the All The Goods blog interview, the writer/interviewer noted that upon listening to the album, Martin's voice was "as warm and passionate as ever" whilst the album was "faith-based in style". When asked what guided her to follow this direction, she stated ''"When I started writing again I had no intention of actually making a record. I just missed singing. Out of the blue one day, my husband Greg began to teach me how to navigate Garageband on my computer, which put a world of instruments right at my fingertips. This was a miracle to me! Since I had never learned how to play an instrument I couldn't write a song on my own. I had so much fun creating my first track! Usually as I work on the music, I kind of hum and mumble melodic ideas that eventually lead to lyrics. Well, I was so grateful to be singing and writing again that the words that came to me were expressions of love and thankfulness. I had always known that God had a plan but my inner fear had become... had I been willful for so long that I'd missed it completely?"''〔 When asked in the Breathe Cast interview about the album, Martin revealed ''"I was having so much fun writing that I just couldn't stop, hours would fly by, and since I really had no intention of releasing an album it never occurred to me to sing someone else's song. These songs were my walk, my testimony, but guided by God. Lyrics and musical parts would come to me so "out of the blue" that sometimes I felt I had no hand in it. So many times I would stop and thank God for the privilege of being His instrument. The perfect example of that is "Amen". That song flowed from my heart and seemed to write itself."''〔 In late 2012, Martin used Kickstarter, in an attempt to gain funding of $10,000, to market and promote the album. This included retail and digital distribution, internet promotion, radio airplay, and the possibility of Martin touring again. However by mid-January 2013, the 45 day funding period only gained $1,230 via 12 backers. When asked about the goals Martin had in mind for the album, and the possibility of a solo tour, she stated ''"I would love to tour, but the problem is I'm seriously flying by the seat of my pants! The upside of not having a label or management is you have no one else calling the shots; the down is that you have no one to do the things you don't know how to do, like put a tour together. At this point, my goal is to nudge "Trust, Love, Pray" into peoples' awareness every way I can via social media. It would be a huge help to reach my Kickstarter goal. That would enable me to hire a marketing professional."''〔 She also noted in the Breathe Cast interview, ''"Advent of programs like Kickstarter to help raise funds to record, ReverbNation to help with promotion, and CD Baby for distribution make it easy to be independent. From my own experience I know Christians can have a career in secular music."''〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trust, Love, Pray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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