Speckled Bird is the eighth studio release, and seventh full-length studio album, from Christian alternative rock band the Choir, released in 1994. The album is largely a remixed and reworked version of the independent Kissers and Killers project with an additional five tracks. Background When major Christian record labels Word Records (the parent company of Myrrh) and Sparrow Records shuttered operations in Southern California in the early 1990s and consolidated their efforts in Nashville, Tennessee, that city – known primarily as the center of country music – quickly became the center of contemporary Christian music as well. Because of this, a number of musicians and production personnel who were friends of the Choir had relocated to Nashville, and now the band was faced with the same decision. With Word ending its support for the Choir's label Glasshouse, relocation presented greater financial opportunities for the band, now that lead singer and guitarist Derri Daugherty and drummer and lyricist Steve Hindalong had become seasoned producers of other artists, and saxophone and Lyricon player Dan Michaels had gained record label management experience with Glasshouse during its brief tenure. The cost of living in Nashville was also less expensive, and the city was a more central location for touring. Because of this, Daugherty, Hindalong and Michaels made a permanent move to Nashville in late 1993, arriving on Halloween. The transition was difficult. Marital relationships were strained, as band members were completely unprepared for that winter’s ice storm. The new location of Neverland Studios was in a bad part of town, and the band had to deal with vandalism and stolen gear. Michaels, who was mourning the end of a relationship, was forced to live in the new studio and take showers at the local YMCA. After leaving their high-profile association with Myrrh, and failing to secure a mainstream record deal with Kissers and Killers, the band "returned a little sheepishly to the Christian fold they had all but ignored for three years," and signed a one-album deal with R.E.X. Records. Recording and production Speckled Bird would be the first project that the members of the Choir worked on after arriving in Nashville, and they flew in bass guitarist Tim Chandler for additional writing and recording sessions. This birthed three additional songs: "Never More True," "Spring," and the title track. Hindalong would write "Like a Cloud" based on an unused guitar part from the sessions