The Rock of Ages ’71

Description

The Rock of Ages ’71 is a multi-artist compilation released on Way Records in 1971. It is a conference-festival album featuring both music and spoken word.

The Way International put out a number of these annual conference-festival albums in the ‘70s consisting of music and spoken word snippets. Unfortunately most have only brief excerpts from the bands. That and there’s usually too much talking and too many traditional styles. The Rock Of Ages ’71 is one of the better ones as it has some good full-length rocking material by Cookin’ Mama (including «In The Presence Of The Lord»), Dove (a classy west-coast psych cover of «Jesus Is Just All Right») and Barry McCoy. Also five selections from Pressed Down Shaken Together & Running Over, some rather brief but most being non-LP. The sermon excerpts in this series reveal a lot more about the organization’s doctrinal peculiarities than is typically discernible from the individual bands’ music albums. [Ken Scott, The Archivist, 4th edition]

LP tracklist:

Side One
A1. Rev. John Townsend – Thanks
A2. Pressed Down, Shaken Together And Running Over – “God Is Light”
A3. Cookin’ Mama feat. Paul Hahn – “Better Day”
A4. Barry McCoy – “Spreading The True Word”
A5. Glenda Sue and Cookin’ Mama – “In The Presence Of The Lord”
A6. Steve Heefner – “Tell Your Neighbor”
A7. Pressed Down – “Pressed Down, Shaken Together And Running Over”
A8. Dove – “Jesus Is Just Alright”
A9. Pressed Down – “Christ Is Coming”

Side Two
B1. Rev. Walter Cummins – On The Lawn
B2. Chris Lagey – “Singing God’s Praises”
B3. Cookin’ Mama – “You Can Be”
B4. Gary Curtis – “The Real Thing”
B5. Pressed Down – “Christ In Me”
B6. Ted and Mardelle – “Thanks To Calvary”
B7. Rev. John Townsend – God Is Our Strength
B8. Claudettee Royal – “Amazing Grace”
B9. Dr. Tracy Spencer – Man With The Bird
B10. Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille – Greetings
B11. Pressed Down – “Truly Glad”
B12. Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille – Ambassador Call
B13. The Way – “Children One Hundred Children”
B14. Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille – Into The World
B15. Fugit and Crabb – “The Word Over the World”
B16. Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille – I’m Still Here