Ways to Get Through

Description

Ways to Get Through (presented by Sounds of Hope) is a double album by the American folk duo Foley & Kavanaugh (John Foley and John Kavanaugh of St. Louis Jesuits fame), independently released on Merlin Records West in 1973, distributed by Sounds of Hope out of Phoenix, Arizona. The album was recorded by Dan Reid at Technisonic Studios in St. Louis, Missouri; with Larry Nelson (S.J.) producing.

Known more for being the mastermind behind the group St. Louis Jesuits, John Foley and fellow member John Kavanaugh have a crafted a beautiful double album of moody folk music unequaled in the Christian market. While Foley’s other projects have been more praise-oriented, here the approach is not so much Jesus music (though the Savior’s name appears 2 or 3 times), but rather observations about life, people, and relationships written from a Christian perspective. Most of the album is just an acoustic guitar and the two singers as on «Peas, Carrots, & Cabbages», a 13-minute parable expanding on the lilies-of-the-field principles in Matthew 6. A couple of the songs on the second disk get some heavy electric fuzz guitar. Both gents share in the songwriting which leans toward the poetic – call it thinking-man’s folk. [Ken Scott, The Archivist, 4th Edition]

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2LP tracklist:

Side One
A1. “Records, Piano And Guitar” – 3:37
A2. “It Is Good” – 4:26
A3. “Tastes Of Your Life” – 3:25
A4. “All Undone” – 3:34
A5. “You Are Far Away” – 3:44
A6. “Take My Ring” – 2:20

Side Two
B1. “The Colors You Bring” – 3:47
B2. “Throw Me A Line” – 1:45
B3. “Let Me Not Say” – 3:22
B4. “Peas, Carrots And Cabbages” – 12:47

Side Three
C1. “Save Them”
C2. “The Promises Of Home”
C3. “Clyde”
C4. “Wind”
C5. “Listen To The Angles”
C6. “Lydia Moore”

Side Four
D1. “The Silo” – 3:50
D2. “Barbarie2 – 3:48
D3. “Rainin’ Days” – 3:25
D4. “The Summer Will Rise” – 4:07
D5. “Evening Sunrise” – 2:20
D6. “How Can I Keep From Singing” – 4:01

Note: The double LP is housed in a gatefold sleeve with lyrics printed on the inside.

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Gatefold Cover Artwork

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