18 Graham Kendrick Classics

Description

18 Graham Kendrick Classics is a compilation album by the British singer and songwriter Graham Kendrick, released on Kingsway Music in 1981. Featuring a selection of tracks from Kendrick’s first three albums.

LP tracklist:

Side One
A1. “Fisherman’s Song”
A2. “You’re The Perfume”
A3. “No One Ever Told Me”
A4. “Yours Faithfully”
A5. “No Room At The World”
A6. “Moving On”
A7. “I’d Like To Be A Martyr”
A8. “Comforting Stranger”
A9. “End To End”

Side Two
B1. “Bad Friday Blues”
B2. “How Much Do You Think You Are Worth”
B3. “Half A Word”
B4. “Caiphas & The Temple Guard”
B5. “Kingdom Come”
B6. “Jerusalem Road”
B7. “Sympathy”
B8. “Simon’s Song”
B9. “There’s A Door”

Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and 12-inch vinyl LP by Kingsway Music.

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Liner notes by Graham Kendrick printed on the back of the LP sleeve:

The songs on this album are selected from classic earlier recordings by Graham, Bright Side Up, Footsteps on the Sea and the still popular Paid on the Nail.

The lyrics that impressed themselves on the minds of many when these albums were first released, will surely be seen as timeless and as fresh as when they were written, communicating the gospel in a way that is especially Graham.

Many have asked me how I came to write such songs as, “Half a Word” and “There’s a Door”. I can only say that most of them come naturally out of applying Biblical principles and stories in the day-to-day life God has led me through, since I decided to take up my guitar instead of a teaching career!

Fisherman’s Song:
I imagined the young Simon Peter as a restless man, always scanning the horizon for a destination, but little expecting the form in which it would come to him.

You’re the Perfume I’m the Jar:
This is a collection of mainly Biblical images put together in an attempt to illustrate and celebrate the experience of God living in us.

No One Ever Told Me:
My contribution to the era of protest songs!

Yours Faithfully:
The death of my Grandfather, whose Godly life always had a quality of peace about it, suggested to me the signing off at the end of a letter; “Yours faithfully, just moving on.”

No Room at the World:
At the time, I doubt if anybody would have remarked much upon the arrival of the pregnant woman and the man; just two more worried faces in the queue for a room at the world.

Moving On:
If you superimposed Jesus upon the age of the automobile and of western affluence, I wonder how much more uncomfortable he would make us feel than tucked safely away in the Sunday School pictures of another age.

Comforting Stranger:
Jesus still turns up unexpectedly and transforms the most mundane of situations with nothing but the most basic of raw materials: a walk, a conversation, a loaf of bread, a glass of wine…

Half a Word:
Growing up in a Christian environment taught me so many of the ‘right words’ and the acceptable outward forms of behaviour. However, true Godliness and Christlike love cannot be obtained secondhand.

Sympathy:
It comes a lot cheaper than love and we often give it, not out of love, but as a sedative to our own restless conscience.

There’s a Door:
A lady living opposite me often appeared at her window, looking out on the street with an obvious air of sadness. I wanted her to know that there was a WAY out of her problems.

Graham’s other recordings on Kingsway are: Paid on the Nail, Breaking of the Dawn, Fighter, Jesus stand among us, and two new albums due for released late ’81.