The Still Small Voice

Description

The Still Small Voice is an album by the American folk-rock band A Still Small Voice, released on Herald Records in 1974. The album was recorded at Ambet Recording in Phoenix, Arizona; and was produced and arranged by the band.

Great underground psych-edged custom rock from male/female group of eight. Garagy electric riffs with wah-wah loudly roughing things up on «Mark Of The Beast» and the eight-minute opener «A Still Small Voice/A Future Time». The latter track also has some nice psychy organ, as does the trippy mysterious «The Night Has Come». Several songs target middle-ground plugged-in guitar/piano folkrock realms ala Wild Olive Branch Band, namely «Lord I’m Smiling In Your Love», «All The Days Of Your Life», «Rainbow» and «Same Old Feeling», all with good electric guitar presence. A couple pleasant acoustic ballads: «I Must Tell Jesus» and «Wherever He Leads I’ll Go», the latter with a spoken personal challenge to accept Christ. Crude b&w pen/ink cover drawing of a pair of hands reaching out toward three crosses on a hill. Creepy contorted photo of two faces on the back. Doesn’t say where they’re from, but mentions the album was recorded in Phoenix, Arizona. No relation to the better known Herald label out of South Carolina. [Ken Scott, The Archivist, 4th edition]

LP tracklist:

Side One
A1. “A Still Small Voice A Future Time” – 7:56
A2. “Lord I’m Smiling In Your Love” – 4:40
A3. “All The Days Of Your Life” – 3:39
A4. “The Night Has Come” – 5:07

Side Two
B1. “Rainbow” – 3:18
B2. “I Must Tell Jesus” – 4:23
B3. “Mark Of The Beast” – 3:42
B4. “Same Old Feeling” – 3:22
B5. “Wherever He Leads I’ll Go” – 3:32

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CREDITS. Produced and Arranged by A Still Small Voice. Recorded at Ambet Recording, Phoenix, Arizona. Music Coordinator: Paula Markey. Sound complements of Bill Fry’s Music Center. Cover by Mike Richter.

Musicians: A Still Small Voice – Gene Ramsey (Piano), Paula Markey (Keyboards), Mike Richter (Rhythm and Lead Guitar, Vocals), Mark Price (Lead Guitar, Vocals), Darrel Lewis (Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Vocals), Tim Hodges (Bass, Vocals), Rick Porter (Drums), Steve Sutter (Drums). Vocals: Tim Hodges, Darrel Lewis (tracks: A1, A3, B3, B5), Mark Price (tracks: A1 to A4, B2 to B5), Mike Richter (tracks: B5), Steve Sutter (tracks: B5).