Amy Grant performs cut from first decade of career

Many veteran recording artists have short memories when it comes to set lists. New songs are normally showcased, with recent material usually complementing the fresh cuts. There might be an old nugget or two thrown in for good measure.

Very few performers focus on tracks solely from their salad days.

Then there's Amy Grant.

With the exception of a few unrecorded tunes that close her show, Grant will only render cuts from the first decade of her career — which was primarily her contemporary Christian days — when she performs Saturday at the Tower Theater.

“I'm not playing anything I recorded after 1988,” Grant said while calling from the airport in Nashville, Tenn. “Music has a way of bringing back forgotten memories, and that's what I'm doing with this tour.

“I just want to remind people who they were before they had responsibilities and no energy after having five children. When people hear songs from another era, they can become that person again.”

Grant will ignore her 1991 pop breakthrough album, which includes such hit singles as “Baby Baby” and “Every Heartbeat.”

“It's all right,” she said. “I'm doing something I have to do. You can't play every song when you go on tour. I'm going way back with this tour.”

It's almost hard to believe that Grant, 47, marked her 30th anniversary in show business in 2007.

“I started early,” she said. “I was in my teens. I knew what I wanted to do.”

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