Description
History Makers, sub-titled 15 Classic Keaggy Recordings from the 80’s & 90’s, is a compilation album by the American singer, songwriter, and guitarist Phil Keaggy, released on Sparrow Records in April 2003, distributed in the US by Chordant Distribution Group. History Makers: Landmark Recordings. Ground-Breaking Artists. Life-Changing Songs. (“History Makers” is a trademark of EMI CMG.)
This CD features some of Phil Keaggy’s greatest recordings for the Sparrow label, remastered from the original tapes with 24-bit technology for superior sound. The master guitarist also contributes new liner notes with his thoughts on the songs and the times they were written in. [Note featured on the back of the CD]
A compilation of oldies from arguably Christian music’s finest guitarist (although I can hear some Bryn Haworth and Glenn Kaiser fans muttering already!). 11 of the 15 tracks here are from the classic trilogy of albums from 1980 to 1982, ‘Ph’lip Side’, ‘Town To Town’ and ‘Play Thru Me’, and it took this compilation to remind me just how good those three releases were. As for the other four songs, they date from 1995-97 and they aren’t as good. No doubt for contractual reasons examples of stuff from the 1970s and his later 1980s output, especially the Beatle-esque «Sunday’s Child», are missing and there’s no sign of John Perry’s «Be In My Heart» either; so until Phil gets the publishing rights to his entire back catalogue, a definitive Keaggy “greatest” package will have to wait. Until then, this is worth buying for the 1980-82 tracks alone, especially if the double CD set of those three albums issued in 1991 passed you by, or your vinyl is past its best. [Trevor Kirk, Cross Rhythms, November 2003]
CD tracklist:
01. A Child (In Everyone’s Heart) – 3:59
02. Spend My Life With You – 5:16
03. Just A Moment Away – 4:04
04. I Belong To You – 3:29
05. Full Circle – 4:19
06. Rise Up O Men Of God – 4:14
07. Let Everything Else Go – 4:52
08. Cherish The Moment – 5:02
09. Play Thru Me – 4:27
10. She Came To Stay – 3:36
11. Morning Light – 3:31
12. True Believers – 4:37
13. Son Of Man – 4:37
14. Highland – 5:52
15. River Of Life – 4:08
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