12 Step / Recovery

Using the power of music to support recovery, Sunlight of the Spirit Music offers the largest and most diverse selection of 12 Step and Recovery Music CDs anywhere on the planet!

Recovery music helps guide us on our continuing journey of healing and growth, one day at a time. Listening to songs about the 12 steps helps to reinforce their message.
-Gracie Vandiver, Founder,
Sunlight of the Spirit Music

Gracie Vandiver & Friends

Trail Of Light

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Best Selling CDs

"Trail of Light" received an Entertainment Industries Council 2008 PRISM Award! The songs on Trail of Light reflect the journey from alcoholism and addiction to a new life in recovery. It's a compilation CD that includes music from a variety of very talented independent artists and award-winning songwriters, including Paul Williams, Mary Gauthier, Jon Vezner, Jack Sundrud, and Sharon Vaughn, offering many different vocal styles and musical genres. The first twelve songs lyrically address the emotional twists and turns on the path, reflecting "What it was like," "What happened," and "What it's like now." The fifteen-song journey concludes with "A vision for you," offering songs of hope and inspiration to maintain solid footing in day-to-day recovery.

Mary Lyn B.

Twelve Songs

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Best Selling CDs

"Twelve Songs" is a compilation of songs that have been inspired through the 12 steps of recovery. Each song uniquely relates to a corresponding step. Mary Lyn's journey of recovery is reflected in songs that will bring strength and encouragement to anyone at any stage of recovery. Mary Lyn has performed at recovery festivals, conventions, and private fundraising events across the United States.

Sonia Lee

Chance To Start Over

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Best Selling CDs

2006 Kerrville New Folk Finalist, Sonia Lee, has been sober for over eleven years. Anyone who has ever needed a chance to start over will find hope and inspiration in her newest CD. It is filled with authenticity and recovery to soothe and comfort your spirit. The CD's title track, Chance To Start Over, is the Sober Cafe Podcast's theme song.

David Zasloff

Courage & Wisdom

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

Courage & Wisdom contains five spiritual songs fully arranged with orchestra and choir, including beautiful new music for The Lord's Prayer and The Serenity Prayer.

Just Ray

Learning To Live Again

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Best Selling CDs

For over twenty years, Ray W. crafted songs for various Nashville publishers, accumulating sixty-four cuts and three top ten singles with such artists as Brooks & Dunn and Lonestar. In 2000, Ray returned to his hometown in Georgia to regroup after getting into recovery, realizing he not only had to change playgrounds and playmates, but the type of music he wrote as well. He’s always written songs about life as he sees it and now that includes life in recovery.

Andrew Pace

Out Of Darkness Into Light

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Urban

Andrew Jerome Pace is best known for his work as the drummer "Babe" Pace for C&C Music Factory, the 1990's sensation that gave us the hit song, "Gonna Make You Sweat / Everybody Dance Now," which sold over 8 million copies. Pace, a Certified Addictions Counselor, created a self-help urban / R&B CD with bittersweet lyrics in spoken word, that reminds us of the pain of drug and alcohol addiction and the joy of recovery.

Michael Purington

I Think I’ll Quit Drinkin’ Today

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Best Selling CDs

While most country musicians write and sing about drinking, Purington sings about not drinking. Michael & The Messengers are five fun-loving sober guys recording songs about recovery and all that goes with it.

Michael & The Messengers

Promises

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

Michael & The Messengers offer 24 songs on their newest CD, "Promises," marrying music to the message of recovery and making the message easy to digest and more fun. Their songs are packed with joy, humor, and deep emotion. The message is simple: quit drinking and learn to live sober.

Paula Hawley

The Voice Inside

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

In her own words, "The material for The Voice Inside came from sharing my spiritual journey in the Sunday chapel service at Cumberland Heights, a Nashville area treatment center for drug and alcohol dependence. What has turned into a sort of ministry for me started through the horror of watching my own brother nearly die from drug abuse."

Paula Hawley

That's The Truth

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

That’s The Truth includes thirteen songs specifically about the spiritual side of recovery. Paula’s clear voice and authentic delivery are soothing to the spirit. This CD is another spiritual tool that reminds us there’s power greater than ourselves, and life is so much easier just by “letting go.”

Bill Z.

Slowbriety

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Best Selling CDs

The songs on "Slowbriety" range from soft southern classic rock (ala the Allman Bros.) to Bob Dylan with a country flavor, to high-powered (well, more like higher powered) rock 'n roll reminiscent of Dire Straits. Drawing from his 20+ years of experience in recovery, Bill Z. wrote or co-wrote many of these songs. Bill Z. is also the founder of 12StepRadio.com, where songs from many of the CDs for sale at Sunlight Of The Spirit Music are played on the Internet 24/7.

The Serenity Songs Project

Twelve Steps To Freedom

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Best Selling CDs

Crafted around the principles of the twelve-steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and its many related organizations, Twelve Steps To Freedom is recorded in a variety of musical styles from pop, to R&B and country. Recovering lyricist and producer, Mary Dawson, enlisted the help of composer/arranger, Bruce Greer, and the artists on the CD, to bring her songs to life. Grammy Award winner, Cynthia Clawson, is featured on this album as well as six other gifted vocalists including Babbie Mason, Jessy Dixon, Joe Bright, Tommy Clawson, Patti Berry, and Bruce Greer.

Healing Songs by Various Artists

Healing Songs

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Christian / Gospel

Healing Songs was originally designed as recovery music for ACA, ACOA, co-dependents or anyone in recovery from any and all abuse issues. It has since become a resource for inner child work and healing for self and family. Healing Songs is for all Christians who want to deepen their faith and/or want to use this music in their ministry to help others.

Greg Tamblyn

Shootout At The I’m OK, You’re OK Corral

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Positive / New Thought

Greg Tamblyn, NCW (No Credentials Whatsoever), has been a successful singer, songwriter, speaker, and humorist for over twenty years. He has an irreverent sense of humor, and has a special interest in the relationship of music, laughter, and lifestyle to physical and emotional well-being. The first six songs on this CD are clever, with inspired lyrics about pop psychology and self-awareness. The next five are rockers and ballads about the power of love, emotional and spiritual growth.

John Totaro

Vice Presidential Pardons

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

In a 12-song journey entitled "Vice Presidential Pardons," critically-acclaimed songwriter John Totaro's lyrics delve into living one day at a time (he calls it 'one beat at a time'). John writes about life - - his life - - the blurry alcohol daze and the first three years of sobriety.

Selfish Steam

Version 4.0

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

In May of 2002, Selfish Steam received a Prism Commendation Award and a Prism Certificate of Merit (sponsored by the Entertainment Industries Council and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation) for their "Outstanding contribution accurately depicting drug and alcohol addiction in a music/music video recording." Dubbed by the media as "Friends in Recovery with Music that Touches the Soul," Selfish Steam's all-original music is written from their own life experiences.

Lee Domann

Songs For Ebby T.

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

Lee Domann, an award-winning songwriter, has songs recorded by a variety of artists including Kathy Mattea, The Bishops, and Riders In the Sky. Lee's style is reminiscent of Garrison Keillor, of NPR's The Prairie Home Companion. His music will make you laugh, cry, cheer, remember, and know. The message in these 10 songs will be familiar to many persons within the rich variety of 12-Step programs currently available.

Leah Clark

Road of Recovery

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

Leah has found a new joy in her music since she got sober and asked God to change her life. This four-song EP radiates that joy and highlights Leah's God-given talents.

Jim W.

One Man's Walk

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

Jim W.’s journey out of his own personal hell and into a community of recovery has become the substance of "One Man's Walk," 12 songs chronicling the amazing changes the Twelve Step Recovery Program has brought into his life. Each song is dedicated to one of the twelve steps. Exploring the simple spiritual tools that have helped Jim and countless others to break the chains of addiction, these songs - these stories, shed light on one man's walk - out of despair.

Mark Elder & Friends

Just For Today

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

Mark Elder (and a few of his good friends) recorded this CD of songs based on the twelve steps. All of the songs are composed by Elder. You'll notice some rock, reggae, and R&B mixed in with a little experience, strength and hope.

Gail DeWitt

Conscious Contact Vol. One: Where Spirituality & Recovery Meet

Genres: Meditation 12 Step / Recovery

Conscious Contact Volume One: "Where Spirituality & Recovery Meet" is a step-by-step process to walk you from a place of addiction and/or loss to a place of wholeness and freedom. Whether or not you are in 12 step program, this CD will walk you through the wonderful principles embodied in the 12 steps and explain their spiritual or metaphysical application. This CD is about creating a life that works for everyone – beginning with creating a life that works for you.

Andy Anderson

If I'd Known I'd Live This Long

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

This album by the Australian actor and former Missing Links singer/drummer is full of songs about drinking, loving, losing, and no longer drinking. They're sometimes boppy a la 50's rock, occasionally kinda Hawaiian and usually fairly countryish.

Hawai'i Island Performing Artists

We Are 'Ohana, Songs Of Hope

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery World / Cultural

We Are 'Ohana is a stunning compilation of much of Hawai'i's best talent, coming together to make music and to fight the scourge of drug addiction. Most of the artists performing on the CD are in recovery, including songwriter/musician/producer Gregg Perry.