Frio Suite

Phil Keaggy & Jeff Johnson (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 6, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2010
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ark Records, Inc./ArkMusic
• ASIN: B002LCJMHW
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,598 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Of Time And The Frio

2. Morning On Singing Hills

3. Like Walking On Water

4. Riding The Stone Waves

5. Just Below The Surface

6. Dream Of The Blue Hole

7. An Ancient Continuo

8. Between Heaven & Earth

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Frio Suite: Warm Music for the Soul, October 7, 2009

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Jill M. Clark (Cedar Hill, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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As a keyboardist/pianist I have admired Jeff Johnson's creative style for decades, especially his "Celtic" side. And Phil Keaggy's music has been on my CD player (tape deck, record player) ever since I was "introduced" to him in the mid 1970s. Well, lo and behold, something miraculous has happened! The two gifted artists got together. Thanks to an awesome God and a common experience at a retreat center in Texas, we get 53:38 of heaven on earth!

I've lived almost thirty years in Texas and had never heard of the River Frio, but if it's as beautiful and inspiring as the music on this project, I need to pack my bags! I can almost hear echoes in a canyon, and streams of water coming together as guitar and keyboard sound and blend. Another track reminds me of a gentle, relaxing ride on a river raft or inner tube. And just when you think Johnson has the upper hand and his myriad of keyboard voices dominate, in comes Keaggy's superb guitar and the music winds on.

I'm still becoming acquainted with this latest addition to my music collection, but so far my favorite pieces on Frio Suite include the melodic "Between Heaven and Earth" and "Dream of the Blue Hole" (for their simple and beautiful piano sections), along with the second half of "Riding the Stone Waves" with Brother Phil's excellent guitar work. Let the river flow . . .

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Keaggy + Johnson = Brilliant, October 8, 2009

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Robert MacSwain - See all my reviews
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I've been listening to the music of Phil Keaggy and Jeff Johnson for over twenty years, and so I know their respective styles very well. I think the highest praise I can offer this album is that, while on one hand it weaves together melodies and sounds that are distinctively and recognisably "Keaggy" and "Johnson," it also fuses their musical visions together in such a way as to sound fresh and new and different from what they've each done before. They've taken each other, and thus us their listeners, to a new place, for which I'm very grateful. Highly recommended.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Moving Masterpiece, October 6, 2009

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Mark D. Roberts (Boerne, TX) - See all my reviews
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Take an outstanding keyboard artist and composer of contemporary music, team him up with one who is widely regarded to be one of the finest guitarists in the world, add the visual art of a world-class photographer, inspire them with some of the most sublime scenery in all creation, and you have Frio Suite. Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy, along with Kathy Hastings, have produced a moving masterpiece. This instrumental album takes you to the banks of the Frio River, where still waters and striking cliffs give rest to the soul. If you can't make it to Laity Lodge, on the banks of the Frio, Frio Suite is the next best thing. Highly recommended!