1970s Christian Music (private press lps etc)

i LOVE that Family record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WQL5uywj8Y

I need that John Ylvisaker record! Also looking for a live record he with David Blakeley called "Recorded At A housewarming for Fritzie" Been way into this stuff, even Medical Mission Singers!

Daniel Rydstedt - Song For Morning really nice rural folkie with pedal steel, moog, fender rhoads Nice!
Tedd Smith - Smash & Grab dreamy psych folk that some how was released on Waco's Light records, impressive!
Dave Dilley - A Reason To Give ex drug user/dealer goes xian folk pop, just got this one in and I haven't stopped playing it!
Al Bohl - The Music Gotta Stop Someday unexpected sometimes funky country folk!

If anyone is serious about exploring this genre getting this is well worth your money!
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Just in the mail today!

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I need to give in and buy the reissue of that Fraction record, still haven't heard it. Isn't sort of like a doomsday version of the Doors?

For a vocal record this one is groovy
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WOW, great cover!

Fraction record is pretty good, not a huge listen for me. Sometimes doorsy biker rock kinda sound.

Ian you would totally dig that Leaf River record, it's really downhome rural folk and it's got a cover of Sin City!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOX0QcLIhCA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUeWPdr1o1w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkC1QQ1BnLo

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YgnlHo59Ac

lots of versions of this song have been recorded, and for some reason I've put off digging into Larry Norman, he's not bad though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1FcTKNXlO0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDUce5B3Y8Y

lots of versions of this song have been recorded, and for some reason I've put off digging into Larry Norman, he's not bad though

there's a great clip of "Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music " (here) where he rants about supposed Satanic backmasked messages in rock songs and ends his performance with a Mick Jagger impression. I feel like half of his appeal came from his stage presence and between-song banter/sermonizing, and as good as his records can be, they don't do full justice to how witty and charismatic he was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_7xvx0iLuM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzbc9TJlIXI

search this album (A Time of Peace) and her next one, Let the Son Shine. sweet and soulful acoustic singer-songwriter stuff with occasional folk-rock and country elements. her third album (My Lifetime Now) is a little more hippified, with bongos and "jesus is my drug" messages (well, it's really just the one song "High on the Love of Jesus" that bugs me), but it's pretty good too. no one else can sing bible camp anthems like "They'll Know We Are Christians" and "I Am the Light" with such quiet conviction. she does quite a few John Fischer covers too.

Catholic liturgical jazz, sometimes with choral backing, which might sound like an awful idea but I really dig this record. The choral prats sometimes have a christmas vibe, and the Jazz actually cooks! Weird idea that a pastor had the notion of playing jazz to reach the youth in the late 60's.
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The look/font makes me think of 2008, not 1968 or whenever.

Like that was an Arcade Fire side project.

I was wrong assumed Ed Summerlin was catholic due to being on the Avant Garde label which is mostly catholic folk, but he was methodist. He had a previous record call Liturgical Jazz from 63 that sounds like it has hip beatnik grooves.

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I only have one Marj Snyder record but want more. Also these are great femme folk xian records, some of these can be expensive, but can be found cheap if you dig a little
Linda Rich - Patterns
Becky Severson - A Special Path
Crow Johnson - S/T
Barbara Sipple- Journey To Jesus and Sing For Life
Alison & Jill - S/T
Jancis Harvey - Distance Of Doors

I'll second Linda Rich and Becky Severson. will have to keep the others in mind. are the prices high because these are known, sought-after records, or do dealers automatically slap a high price on any unknown private press record that could possibly entice collectors?

I'd also recommend the British singer Judy Mackenzie and her first album Judy - mostly mellow folk-pop and jazz-pop (sophisti-pop?) with funky horn arrangements on a few tracks. I can only find clips of her second album, but that's pretty good too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7_VbcF0tKw

I find out about this stuff mostly through blogs, though. shame on me.

Alison & Jill is on the very collectible Profile label out of Enlgland, most of those records are pricey, most are very good and worth the price. I'm still trying to understand how prices are attached to records, I dunno, a little fuzz guitar seems to help, maybe a flute or organ. Or appearing on a numero comp.

Here's my short list of xian folk records that I'm looking for, I dream big
Aslan - Aslan (Airborn) 73
Aslan - Aslan (no label) 82
Bernard Backman - Portrait Of Man (Mandala) 69
Backwood - Pilgrim's Road (A+R) 76
Bartimeus - Bartimeus  (Sacred Cellar) 78
Barbara Bell - All I Have (Superior) 75
The Berets - Mass For Peace (Avant Garde) 69
Rare Boarding House Reach - S/T (no label) 77
Brad & Brace - Selah (Auburnfolk) 76
Bridge - Jesus Is The Bridge (Good) 72
Brothers - His Kind Of man (Century) 77
Peter Campbell - Of Time and Distance (Trinity) 75
Chrisma - Chrisma Is Raptured (Last Days) 72
Desert Water Band - Come Closer (Mag) 80
Charles Earnst - A Question Of Faith (Waltersdorff) 74
East Of The Altar - S/T (Altar) 77
Grace - S/T (no label) 77
Grace ll (no label) 78
Bill Greenwood - From The Inside Out (Son Songs) 78
Jonathan & Charles-Another Week To Go (Inter-Varsity) 69
Robert Koenigsberg - First Things First (Jesus the Healer) 77
Listen - S/T (Treehouse) 73
Maranatha, PA-The Lord Cometh (Dayspring House) 73
Tom Mahairas - Seekers of the Truth (Janco) 72
Lucine Michaels - Turning Point (Koinonia) 74
Rockwood-self-titled (Dharma) 74
Ron Moore - Wilmore (Airborn) 71
Turley Richards - From Darkness To Light (Siba) 72
Shekina Glory - Have You Considered (IGL) 76
Sons Unto Glory - Harvest Is Ripe (no label) 76
John Warren - Land Of New Hope (Icthus) 73
Washed - S/T (Ageless) 75

I made my first youtube video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHFu0Wp1TOY
expect more soon

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wow, cool vis jacob! i'll look out for those rekkerds you're after.
i'm scared of getting into xian folkrock. i think it might like some of it i a lot.
i'm always meaning to pick up the Lamb records when i see em cheap.

serious question. what are all these people doing now? are they liberals? did they go over to the darker side of evangelicalism?

Begging scott here to make a comp of this stuff!

My ILV mixtape will mainly be xian ruralfolkrock

As i was gonna say ... or Jacob, looks like you have the deep crates on this one, great stuff

You should join our mixtape swap

These guys rock!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNZANvCIaQs

digging this one

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fqhzwvoD_w

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Giant Killers - Power to Power - organ-heavy new wave with apocalyptic lyrics. reminds me of Fischer-Z in a weird way. their first album (Alternative) is heavier and more Doory and not as good, but just look at the cover art:

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that's Giantkiller, not "Giant Killers".

...and the album the clips are from is called Valley of Decision, not Power to Power. I am dumb tonight.

Hey Scott that Tom and Candy Green looks good! It's listed in the Archivist too! They were from Vermont and he says it's the best of their records.

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this guy came to our church when i was a kid and played:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX_OGpF9pJM