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{{Infobox album
| name       = Just as I Am
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Yolanda Adams]]
| cover      = YAJustAsIAm.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = September 22, 1987
| recorded   =
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Gospel music|Gospel]]
| length     = 33:55
| label      =
*Nine
*[[Sound of Gospel]]
| producer   =
*[[Thomas Whitfield (singer)|Thomas Whitfield]]
*Lamar Brantley
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [[Through the Storm (Yolanda Adams album)|Through the Storm]]
| next_year  = 1991
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&q=yolanda+adams&pg=PA1947|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|page=1992|author=[[Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Omnibus Press]]|date=27 May 2011|edition=5|isbn=978-0857125958|accessdate=January 18, 2024|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
}}
'''''Just as I Am''''' is the debut studio album by American gospel singer [[Yolanda Adams]]. It was released by the [[Sound of Gospel]] on September 22, 1987 in the United States. Production was helmed by [[Thomas Whitfield (singer)|Thomas Whitfield]], who also worked with singer [[Vanessa Bell Armstrong]] on early 1980s gospel releases. Though original pressings of the vinyl and cassette release are difficult to find, the album has since been re-released on CD along with another catalog album from Sound of Gospel by [[Wanda Nero Butler]] entitled ''New Born Soul''.
==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| total_length =
| title1          = I Am
| writer1         = Michael McKay
| length1         = 3:20
| title2          = Restore Me
| writer2         = Thomas Whitfield
| length2         = 4:01
| title3          = Signs of the Time
| writer3         = Jonathan DuBose
| length3         = 3:32
| title4          = Just as I Am
| writer4         = Whitfield
| length4         = 3:43
| title5          = Come and Go with Me
| writer5         = {{hlist|Whitfield|Gregory Troy}}
| length5         = 4:30
| title6          = Wash Me
| writer6         = {{hlist|Carl Preacher|Whitfield}}
| length6         = 5:55
| title7          = If You Can Take It You Can Make It
| writer7         = {{hlist|Whitfield|[[Yolanda Adams]]}}
| length7         = 4:16
| title8          = Deliverance
| writer8         = {{hlist|Adams|Whitfield}}
| length8         = 4:11
}}
== Personnel ==
*Produced by Thomas Whitfield and Lanar Brantley
*Executive Producer: Armen Boladian
*Thomas Whitfield — keyboards, Baldwin & Yamaha pianos; string and synthesizer arrangements and overdubs; all vocal and instrumental arrangements
*Earl J. Wright — synthesizer overdubs; string arrangements programming
*Lanar Brantley — bass guitar; instrumental arrangements; exclusive drum programming and arrangements
*Jonathan DuBose — lead & rhythm guitars; bass section on "Deliverance"
*Larry Fratangelo — percussions exclusively
*Raphael Merriweather Jr. — percussion overdubs
*Walter L. Stevenson Jr. — vocal overdubs and tambourine on "Deliverance" (see YouTube page for artist's artistic portfolio)
*''Singers'' — Sandy Hudson, Michael Fletcher, Doretha Carter, Renee Thomas, Larry D. Edwards, Juliette Cooper, Gwen Morton, Ron Kelley, Valerie Hancox, Larry McMurtry, Thomas Whitfield
==Charts==
===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
! scope="col"|Chart (1987)
! scope="col"|Peak<br>position
|-
! scope="row" {{album chart|BillboardGospel|8|artist=Yolanda Adams|refname=BBGospel|accessdate=July 11, 2020}}
|}
===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
! scope="col"|Chart (1988)
! scope="col"|Peak<br>position
|-
! scope="row"|US Top Gospel Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=The Year in Music: Top Gospel Albums|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1988/BB-1988-12-24.pdf#page=99|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=December 24, 1988|accessdate=January 18, 2024|via=World Radio History}}</ref>
|align="center"|12
|-
|}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r324916|label=''Just As I Am''}}
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[[Category:1987 debut albums]]
[[Category:Yolanda Adams albums]]