American Prodigal

American Prodigal is the second studio album by Crowder released on September 23, 2016.

American Prodigal
Studio album by Crowder
Released	September 23, 2016 (2016-09-23)[1]
Studio	Bentley Street Studios, The Glovebox and Yoda's Palace Studios (Nashville, Tennessee) Ed's (Franklin, Tennessee) Sixstepsrecords Studio (Brentwood, Tennessee) The Projector Room Studio (Atlanta, Georgia) The Lemonade Stand (New York City, New York) The Casita (Hollywood, California)
Genre	CCM, worship[2] folk music
Length	53:07
Label	Sparrow/sixsteps (Capitol CMG)
Producer	Ed Cash David Crowder Hank Bentley Solomon Olds David Garcia BT
Crowder chronology
Neon Porch Extravaganza (2015) American Prodigal (2016) I Know a Ghost (2018)
Singles from American Prodigal
"Run Devil Run[citation needed]" Released: June 18, 2016 "Forgiven[citation needed]" Released: March 17, 2017

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
365 Days of Inspiring Media	5/5[3]
CCM Magazine	[4]
Church Mag	[5]
CM Addict	4.5/5[6]
Hallels	Not rated[7]
HM	[8]
Jesus Freak Hideout	[9]
Louder Than The Music	[10]
Today's Christian Entertainment	[11]

It was released in partnership with Sparrow Records and sixstepsrecords, imprints of Capitol Christian Music Group.

Awards and accolades

On August 9, 2017, it was announced that American Prodigal would be nominated for a GMA Dove Award in the Rock/Contemporary Album of the Year and the Recorded Music Packaging of the Year categories at the 48th Annual GMA Dove Awards.^[12]

Track listing

Standard edition

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"American Intro"	David Crowder	1:34
2.	"Keep Me"	Crowder, David Arthur Garcia, Hank Bentley	4:03
3.	"Run Devil Run"	Crowder, Solomon Olds, Lauren Olds	3:26
4.	"My Victory"	Crowder, Darren Mulligan, Ed Cash, Bentley	4:17
5.	"Prove It" (featuring KB)	Crowder, Bentley, Kevin Burgess	2:37
6.	"All You Burdens"	Crowder, Oz Fox, Kevin Howren, S. Olds, L. Olds	2:26
7.	"Back to the Garden"	Crowder, Bentley, Seth Philpott	4:16
8.	"Forgiven"	Crowder, Cash	3:57
9.	"Promised Land (Glory, Hallelujah)" (featuring Tedashii)	Crowder, Bentley, Tedashii Anderson	4:48
10.	"All My Hope"	Crowder, Cash	4:14
11.	"Shouting Grounds"	Crowder, Cash	3:41
12.	"Shepherd"	Crowder, Bentley, Mia Fieldes, Bart Millard	4:01
13.	"All We Sinners"	Crowder, Cash, Philpott	4:35
14.	"American Outro"	Crowder, Bentley	5:12
Total length:			53:07

Deluxe edition

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
15.	"Praise the Lord"	Sean McConnel	4:13
16.	"Great Rejoicing"	Thad Cockrell	3:43
17.	"American I/O" (remix by BT)	Crowder, Bentley, Brian Transeau	5:00
Total length:			66:04

Personnel

• David Crowder – vocals, keyboards (1), programming (1, 6, 14), backing vocals (2, 5, 9, 12, 14), all sounds (3), acoustic guitar (6), electric guitar (6), drums (14)
• Hank Bentley – keyboards (1, 7, 12, 14), programming (1, 7, 14), harmonium (1), electric guitars (4, 10, 14), guitars (5, 7, 9, 12), additional keyboards (9), bouzouki (9), backing vocals (9, 12, 14), drums (14)
• David Garcia – keyboards (2, 5, 7, 9, 12), programming (2, 5, 7, 9, 12), drums (2, 5, 7, 9, 12), backing vocals (2, 5)
• Buddy Greene – harmonium (2), harmonica (5)
• Solomon Olds – all sounds (3), programming (6)
• Ed Cash – acoustic piano (4, 8, 10), programming (4, 8, 10, 11, 13), guitars (4, 8, 10), banjo (4, 8), bass (4, 8, 10, 11), backing vocals (4, 8, 10, 11, 13), keyboards (11), electric guitars (11), acoustic guitar (13)
• Kenny Hutson – guitars (5, 9, 12)
• Oz Fox – acoustic guitar (6), electric guitar (6), ganjo (6)
• Kevin Howren – acoustic guitar (6), electric guitar (6)
• Bill Kelliher – electric guitar (6)
• Chelsey Lowe – banjo (6)
• Rebecca Lovell – mandolin (6)
• Paul Mabury – drums (4)
• Christian Paschall – drums (6)
• Aubrey Haynie – fiddle (2, 5, 7, 9, 12)
• Mercy Stevens – backing vocals (2, 7)
• KB – rap (5)
• Tedashii – rap (9)
• Nickie Conley – choir vocals (10)
• Jason Eskridge – choir vocals (10)
• Maureen Murphy – choir vocals (10)

Production

• Louie Giglio – executive producer
• Shelley Giglio – executive producer, art direction, management
• Brad O'Donnell – executive producer
• David Crowder – producer (1, 3, 6, 14-17), engineer (1, 6, 14)
• Hank Bentley – producer (1, 7, 12, 14-174), engineer (1, 7, 12, 14)
• David Garcia – producer (2, 5, 7, 9, 12), engineer (2, 5, 7, 9, 12), mixing (2, 3)
• Solomon Olds – producer (3, 6)
• Ed Cash – producer (4, 8, 10, 11, 13), engineer (4, 8, 10, 11, 13), mixing (10, 11)
• Brian "BT" Transeau – producer (17)
• Jon Kaplan – mixing (1, 6, 7, 13, 14)
• Paul Rossetti – engineer (2, 5, 9, 12), mix assistant (2)
• Mark Endert – mixing (4, 8)
• Sean Moffitt – mixing (5, 9, 11)
• Tom Tapley – engineer (6)
• Neal Avron – mixing (12)
• Warren David – mix assistant (5, 9, 11)
• Nick Lobel – mix assistant (5, 9, 11)
• Scott Skrzynski – mix assistant (12)
• Joe LaPorta – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York, NY)
• Leighton Ching – art direction, design
• Toni Crowder – art direction
• Mike McCloskey – art direction, management
• Andrew Schoultz – cover painting
• Mary Caroline Mann – photography
• Eric Brown – photography

Chart performance

Album

Chart (2016)	Peak position
US Billboard 200[13]	12
US Christian Albums (Billboard)[14]	1