P/P 7601 (1976) After the food fight I got into with my posting of the one Word of God album I did, I became reluctant to post another Catholic Charismatic community album. I think, however, that the genre needs to be remembered and available when possible, and this production of the People of Praise in …
Kell Street Camp Meeting: Dinner and Joy on the Ground
Paula Records LPS 2211 (1972) "Revival" recordings (audio and video) are common in Christian music. For Southern Gospel, the best known ones are the "Gaither Homecoming" series, which they did in the 1990's and 2000's. Their idea was to get many of the famous Southern Gospel artists--who were passing away--to perform their music, which made …
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Paul Quinlan: Run Like a Deer
FEL S-092 (1967) The ink (printed or handwritten) had barely dried on the Second Vatican Council's documents when Catholic composers and artists began to write songs for what we call the "old folk Mass" but what was revolutionary then. Leading the pack (in quantity at least) was Paul Quinlan, S.J., who produced an enormous number …
Reflection: Sounds of Salvation
Reflection RL 310 (1974) If there's one genre that's mostly AWOL from the "Jesus Music" era, it's prog. To a great extent that's still the case; a major exception is this dance troupe, which sets their Christian dance to some very good prog music. We've featured prog on this site (especially this.) But at the …
Jack Miffleton: With Skins and Steel
World Library WLSM-36-SM (1968) Jack Miffleton started out at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore. That shouldn't be strange to regulars on this blog: it was also the starting point of the trio who produced Songs for the Masses. It's a pedigree that has largely been forgotten. And that's sad; this is a good folk production …
Tom Belt and the God Unlimited Singers: The Agape Factory
GIA M/S-142 (1971) God Unlimited's earliest works were a hard act to follow. A group that, in some ways, set the pace for Episcopal/Catholic folk music sounds more "mainstream" than creative in this work. Part of that was the inclusion of a set of "Mass ordinaries" (use of the term "Mass" wasn't quite according to …
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Ed Gutfreund: From an Indirect Love
Epoch VII EG100 (1974) "The old folk Mass" has become the phrase used by teary-eyed, nostalgic Catholics (and some who left the Church) for the liturgical events of the 1960's and 1970's, when the organ gathered dust and the guitars--six and twelve string--were unpacked for the celebration of the sacred mysteries. But was it really …
Sandi Yonikus: Building the Earth
Liturgical Press 11468 (1968) This "pre-NOM" album (which means we've had one and a half liturgical upheavals since then) is, despite its pretentious title, a mixture of a children's' album and early Catholic folk. Or maybe the pretentious title is reasonable: children are the future, something that the dropping birth rate of the time tended …
The Outpouring: Alive at the Community Coffeehouse
OUTA1 (Fall 1993) The coffee-house ministry was the gathering par excellence of the Jesus Music era. Although there are live recordings out there of concerts, coffee-house recordings are few and far between. This site features only two, both from Texas: the Answer (and that was a rehearsal) and the Latter Rain. And both of those …
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Road to Freedom
New Wine/Wine Skin LP 259-08 (1973) I've said more than once--too many times, perhaps--that South Florida is one of the toughest places in the U.S. to be a Christian. So it's good to see that someone was trying to make a dent in the situation, just down the road from where I grew up and …
Positive Infinity 