* Bob Carlisle, “Butterfly Kisses (Shades of Grace),” Diadem Music Group.
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If you go for the heaping sentimentality of “Butterfly Kisses,” the daddy-daughter dialogue that’s reducing the nation to tears, this obscure Christian-popster’s got another one loaded up in the chamber: “Man of His Word,” a generation-spanning portrait of a guy who’s a rock, if not quite a saint. Actually, the over-the-top melodrama of those two cuts is a relief from the liturgical turgor and inspirational cotton candy that surround them.
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