Songs of the Heart is the twelfth studio album by Christian alternative rock band Daniel Amos, released on BAI Records in 1995.

The album's concept is a musical journey down legendary Route 66 with the fictional couple Bud & Irma Akendorf.

The LP, which was released in the early 1960s and entitled Songs of the Heart, was by a singing gospel duo by the name of Bob and Elsa Beckendorf.

The band, inspired by the cover, decided to explore the lives of a fictional couple, which they named Bud and Irma Akendorf.

It turned out that the Beckendorfs were from Sedona, Arizona, which happened to be the home of Daniel Amos' founder Terry Scott Taylor's paternal grandparents.