Album Analysis

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Sudden Day: Songs from the Nauvoo Expositor is a 16-track concept album drawing entirely from the Nauvoo Expositor, published June 7, 1844. The album tells the complete story of the whistleblowers who exposed Joseph Smith’s secret practices - and what it cost them. Mission: Don’t let the Expositor die in history. Give voice to the silenced. Make the disease known so the remedy can be applied. Methodology: Every lyric traceable to primary sources. Historical accuracy over dramatic embellishment. Sympathetic approach over confrontational messaging. Singability over clever wordplay. ...

11 min · Sudden Day Project