Editing A Ragamuffin Band

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{{Infobox musical artist
| name            = A Ragamuffin Band
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| origin          = [[Nashville, Tennessee]], U.S.
| genre           = [[Christian music]], [[Folk music|folk]], [[Rock music|rock]]
| years_active    = 1993&ndash;2000
| label           = [[Reunion Records|Reunion]], [[Myrrh Records|Myrrh]]
| associated_acts =
| website         =
| current_members =
| past_members    = * [[Rich Mullins]]
* [[Rick Elias]]
* [[Jimmy Abegg]]
* [[Mark Robertson (bassist)|Mark Robertson]]
* [[Aaron Smith (musician)|Aaron Smith]]
* Steve Latanation
}}

'''A Ragamuffin Band''' was a musical group founded by [[Rich Mullins]] in 1993, when he gathered friends from other bands to back him on his ''[[A Liturgy, A Legacy, & A Ragamuffin Band]]'' album. The band continued to record and tour with Mullins, and even carried on after his 1997 death. The group's name is derived from [[Brennan Manning]]'s 1990 book ''[[The Ragamuffin Gospel]]'', which defines ''ragamuffins'' as "the burdened, the wobbly and weak-kneed, the inconsistent, unsteady disciples... the smart people who know they are stupid... the honest disciples who admit they are scalawags".<ref name="Ragamuffin">{{Cite web
 |last        = Selleck
 |first       = Linda
 |title       = A Ragamuffin Music Man: Rich Mullins
 |publisher   = Friends United Meeting
 |date        = April 1998
 |url         = http://www.fum.org/QL/issues/9804/mullins.htm
 |accessdate  = July 2, 2010
 |archiveurl  = https://web.archive.org/web/20100708134739/http://www.fum.org/QL/issues/9804/mullins.htm
 |archivedate = July 8, 2010
 |url-status     = dead
 |df          = mdy-all
}}</ref><ref name="Remembers">{{Cite web
  | last = Tarrant 
  | first = Rick 
  | title = The Countdown Magazine Remembers Rich Mullins 
  | publisher = Communion Communications
  | date = October 11, 1997
  | url = http://kidbrothers.net/words/interviews/20-the-countdown-magazine-oct1197.html
  | accessdate = July 2, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Compassion">{{Cite web
  | last = Rivers
  | first = Jon
  | title = Music and More
  | publisher = Compassion International
  | year = 1993
  | url = http://kidbrothers.net/interviews/musicandmore.html
  | accessdate = July 2, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Brothers">{{Cite web
 |last=Mullins 
 |first=David and Robin 
 |title=Kid Brothers 
 |publisher=Kid Brothers 
 |year=2009 
 |url=http://www.richmullins.com/kidbrothers.html 
 |accessdate=July 2, 2010 
 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529035529/http://www.richmullins.com/kidbrothers.html 
 |archivedate=May 29, 2010 
 |url-status=dead 
}}</ref>

On February 2, 2019 the band reunited to perform ''[[The Jesus Record]]'' in its entirety with several guest artists to raise funds for member [[Rick Elias]], who had been diagnosed with brain cancer the previous year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://utrmedia.org/review-the-jesus-record-live-franklin-tn/|title=Review: The Jesus Record LIVE - Franklin, TN|last=utrmedia|website=UTR Media|access-date=March 10, 2019}}</ref> Elias died two months later on April 2, 2019.

==Discography==
*''[[A Liturgy, A Legacy, & A Ragamuffin Band]]'' (Reunion, 1993)
*''[[Brother's Keeper (Rich Mullins album)|Brother's Keeper]]'' - (Reunion, 1995)
*''[[The Jesus Record]]'' (Myrrh, 1998)
*''Prayers of a Ragamuffin'' (Word, 2000)

==Prayers of a Ragamuffin==
''Prayers of a Ragamuffin'', released on January 4, 2000, is the fourth and final album by A Ragamuffin Band, and their only album that's not part of a project by Mullins.

; track listing
# "Make Me an Instrument" (5:41)
# "Nothing You Don't Know" (4:43)
# "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" (3:49)
# "Faith, Hope and Love" (5:03)
# "Help Thou My Unbelief" (5:42)
# "My Heart Already Knows" (5:16)
# "Bouncing Off the Ceiling" (4:08)
# "God Grant Me Tears" (5:02)
# "Shout" (2:40)
# "We'll Be Together Again" {{small|hidden track}} (11:07)

==References==
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