Audio CD review:
Phil Keaggy - Time 1

Phil Keaggy - Time 1

Band: Phil Keaggy Title: Time 1 Rating: Release Date: 02 January, 2001 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Introduction 2: I've Just Begun (Again) 3: Sunday's Child 4: Love Divine 5: I Will Be There 6: Time (Unreleased Version) 7: Hope's Desire (Unreleased) 8: Let Everything Else Go 9: Pilgrim's Flight 10: Find Me In These Fields 11: Theme 12: Where Is My Maker? 13: Do Lord (Unreleased Version) 14: What A Day 15: Little Ones 16: Morning Light 17: March Of The Clouds 18: O God Our Help In Ages Past 19: The Answer (Unreleased Version)

Editoral Review A superb musician, his music has always been more a reflection of who he is (a musician who is a Christian) and not so much what he is (a Christian musician). Phil Keaggy is one of contemporary Christian music's pioneers. In honor of his 30-plus-year career, Myrrh Records released a two-volume set showcasing some of the more interesting recorded moments in Keaggy's catalog. It's tough to pick between the two, but volume 1 perhaps illustrates a little more clearly the diversity Keaggy displayed over three decades. CCM radio fans will recognize "Love Divine," a nice little Beatlesque number that charted high several years ago. "March of the Clouds," one of Keaggy's personal faves, is a masterful and beautiful instrumental off of 1987's The Wind and the Wheat. Both "Theme" and "Where Is My Maker?" capture the late-'70s sound of the Phil Keaggy Band, a rock fusion outfit whose music (not to mention the outfits in the CD's cover notes!) will inspire some grins. "Do Lord," a 1971 live track from a Glass Harp opening gig for the Kinks at New York's Carnegie Hall, is another historical milestone, as is "Little Ones," a highly charged ode to unborn children and the abortion issue, recorded in 1980. Considering that a good deal of his recorded work is no longer available, Keaggy fans owe it to themselves to pick up both volumes of Time. --Michael Lyttle .. You can see a complete list of all Phil Keaggy discography, or go back to the Phil Keaggy tabs