History Makers: Best of Christian Rock 1

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 22, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sparrow
• ASIN: B00008XEPW
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #417,500 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Old Gospel Ship - Mylon LeFevre

2. Why Don't You Look into Jesus - Larry Norman

3. Do Lord - Love Song

4. Little Country Church - Daniel Amos

5. Walkin' in the Light - The Way

6. Do You Feel the Change? - Parable

7. Come Untangled - Petra

8. Father's Arms - Degarmo & Key

9. Wayfaring Stranger - Glass Harp

10. Broken Promises - Resurrection Band

11. What Ever Happened to Sin - Steve Taylor

12. No Apology - White Heart

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Back to the Rock, May 19, 2003

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Gord Wilson "alivingdog.com" (Bellingham, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: History Makers: Best of Christian Rock 1 (Audio CD)

You could be forgiven for skipping over this album. Flipping through the endless sea of bombastically-titled albums which promise and don't deliver, why would an album with the over-reaching title of "History Makers" be any different? If it comes to that, what chance is there that anything titled "Rock" these days will live up to even the weakest definition of that word? The third strike against this album right off the bat is that it's "The Best of Christian Rock," which for many people is an oxymoron since it's a marketing niche these days for any sort of tenth-rate recycled pop, and "the best" on a compilation generally means whatever songs they couldn't sell elsewhere.

But against all odds, this is the real deal. That really is Larry Norman holding forth on "Why Don't You Look into Jesus," famous from his Street Level and Bootleg albums. "Wayfaring Stranger" introduced the passion of DeGarmo and Key on their first album. Mylon LeFevre, who wrote songs for Elvis before fronting his own band, has never been better than on "Old Gospel Ship." "Do Lord" comes from Glass Harp's excellent and hard-to-find album, "It Makes Me Glad," although the band gained new listeners when RadRockers recently offered a redone version by Phil Keaggy and Co. at Carnegie Hall (Radrockers.com). Whiteheart was always too poppy to be called rock, but their fans will tell you this is the album when the rock began to win out. Parable and the Way were two of the greatest bands from the Myrrh and Maranatha labels. Maranatha introduced the first bands back in the day on "The Everlasting Living Jesus Music Concert," following with the numbered Maranatha! collection albums and an astounding new wave collection called Back to the Rock that introduced Leslie Phillips (now Sam Phillips), with a still-unequalled version of "Bring Me Through." About Love Song, formed by Chuck Girard from his former band, the Hondells, enough can never be said--their self-titled album, Love Song, is an all-time great disc. It's a sign of hope that if you buy the Revival praise albums from Britain, there's a sticker on them about the History Maker CDs. It's not that this music is better than the new music--but interest in new music is bringing this music back.(Post)modern praise is uniting people across denominations who are linking hands to change the world today, while reaching back across the generations, old school and new school, as the words of the first Maranatha! album put it, in one Everlasting Concert.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of quality gems here!, September 30, 2004

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rnorton828 "rnorton828" (Riverbend, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: History Makers: Best of Christian Rock 1 (Audio CD)

Sparrow Music's "History Makers" series showcases twelve Christian rock classics from the "Jesus Rock" era of the early 1970's through the mid-80's. This CD contains a lot of gems from Christian rock's early years. Some of my favorites include Petra's "Walkin' in the Light," Larry Norman's "Why Don't You Look Into Jesus?," Mylon LeFevre's "Old Gospel Ship," DeGarmo & Key's "Wayfaring Stranger" & Resurrection Band's tearjerker "Broken Promises." Other noteworthy tracks include Glass Harp's (Phil Keaggy's old band) "Do Lord," Daniel Amos' "Father's Arms," Love Song's "Little Country Church" and Steve Taylor's "Whatever Happened to Sin?" I do have ONE complaint--as much as I like Whiteheart, and I do like the song "No Apology," I do believe that song would have been better-suited for their "Best of Christian Pop" series. Whiteheart did have some other songs on that same album ("Don't Wait for the Movie") which would have been a better fit for this collection--"Read the Book," "Holy Ground" and "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Christian" immediately spring to mind. But altogether, this CD is a great first volume, and I am eagerly waiting for Volume Two.

4.0 out of 5 stars History Makers?, May 8, 2011

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Well, to be honest there are not many Christian artists that will make history. Heck, most of this generation has no idea who these artists are. To our discredit, the christian community is not that dedicated to its past. So I don't think in 20 more years there will even be any evidence that any of these artists even lived much less made music. That being said, this is a good little collection of music that I'm glad I stumbled upon. This series is out of print so you can pick up some used copies here in there. I think the reason it's out of print is they didn't sell as many as they thought they would and most likely didn't even break even. But the other side of the coin is, God knows who they are and he and I love this stuff.