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Appalachian Melody
''Appalachian Melody'' is an album by Mark Heard, released in 1979 on Solid Rock Records. Track listing All songs written by Mark Heard. Side one # "On the Radio" - 3:41 # "Castaway" - 3:30 # "Bless My Soul" - 4:08 # "Here I Am (Once Again)" - 4:41 # "With the Setting Sun" - 1:47 Side two # "Appalachian Melody" - 4:25 # "Happy Cornbread Anniversary" - 0:48 # "Two Trusting Jesus" - 4:18 # "Jonah's Song" - 5:30 # "Sidewalk Soliloquy" - 3:22 # "The Last Time" - 3:19 # "The Saints" - 0:27 Compact disc bonus tracks # "Bless My Soul" (Demo) - 3:28 # "Appalachian Melody" (Demo) - 4:02 # "Happy Cornbread Anniversary" (Demo) - 0:34 # "Two Trusting Jesus" (Demo) - 2:06 # "Jonah's Song" (Demo) - 3:37 # "The Saints" (Demo) - 0:46 # "Saints Are Singin'" (Demo) - 2:25 Personnel The band * Mark Heard – acoustic and electric guitars, piano, mandolin, hambone, vocals, harmonies, arranging, co-producer, mixing, photography, album artwork * Larry Norman – background vocals, producer, ar ...
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Mark Heard
John Mark Heard III (December 16, 1951 – August 16, 1992) was an American record producer, folk rock singer and songwriter from Macon, Georgia. Heard released sixteen albums, and produced or performed with many artists, including: Sam Phillips (aka Leslie Phillips), Pierce Pettis, Phil Keaggy, Vigilantes of Love, Peter Buck of R.E.M. (who co-produced VOL's album ''Killing Floor'' with Heard), The Choir, Randy Stonehill and Michael Been of The Call. Heard produced part of Olivia Newton-John's ''The Rumour'' (1988), which also included a cover of Heard's own "Big and Strong" (originally called "How to Grow Up Big and Strong"). Early life and music career After graduating from the University of Georgia in 1974 with an ABJ (bachelor of arts in journalism) degree in television, Heard traveled to Switzerland to study at L'Abri under the influential evangelical Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer. Singers Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill stumbled onto Mark one day playing ...
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Folk Music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played on traditional instruments, music about cultural or national identity, music that changes between generations (folk process), music associated with a people's folklore, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that. Starting in the mid-20th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is sometimes called contemporary folk music or folk rev ...
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Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ...
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Solid Rock Records
Solid Rock Records is a record label started by Larry Norman. It was established in 1975 to distribute his work after he had been released by Capitol Records. Solid Rock had a distribution deal with Word Records until 1980. The label's roster also included Randy Stonehill, Tom Howard, Mark Heard, Daniel Amos, Pantano & Salsbury (formerly known as the J.C. Power Outlet), and Salvation Air Force. Norman worked with David Edwards, who released his debut album on Myrrh Records in 1980, as well as Steve Scott. Scott recorded one album, ''Moving Pictures'', produced by Norman and Heard, that was unreleased. History Origins Strongly influenced by Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer,Michael S. Hamilton, "The Dissatisfaction of Francis Schaeffer, Part 2", ''Christianity Today'' (March 3, 1997), http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1997/march3/7t322b.html and his community at L'Abri in Switzerland, which Norman had visited with his wife Pamela on his honeymoon in 1972, and "possibl ...
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Larry Norman
Larry David Norman (April 8, 1947 – February 24, 2008) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, record label owner, and record producer. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of Christian rock music and released more than 100 albums. Early life Larry Norman was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the oldest son of Joe Hendrex "Joe Billy" Norman (December 9, 1923 – April 28, 1999), and his wife, Margaret Evelyn "Marge" Stout (born in 1925 in Nebraska). Joe Norman had served as a sergeant in the US Army Air Corps during World War II and worked at the Southern Pacific Railroad"Larry Norman Down Under But Not Out", ''On Being'' (1985/1986):4. while studying to become a teacher. After Norman's birth, the family joined the Southern Baptist church. In 1950 the family moved to San Francisco, where they attended an African American Pentecostal church and then a Baptist church, where Norman became a Christian at the age of five. In 1959, Norman performed on the syndicated televi ...
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Mark Heard (album)
''Mark Heard'' is the first solo album by Mark Heard, originally released in 1975, and re-released as ''On Turning to Dust'' on both AB Records and Solid Rock Records in 1978. A limited edition CDR reissue of the original ''Mark Heard'' album was released to fans in 1998 through Fingerprint Records. Track listing All songs written by Mark Heard, except "Cabin in Gloryland" by O. A. Parris, writer /Cpl. Curtis Stewart. "Greensleeves interlude" is a 16th-century English melody. "There is a Fountain" is an early American melody, words by William Cowper, 1771. "Passion Chorale" is by Hans Leo Hassler, 1601; harmony by J. S. Bach, 1729, words by Bernard of Clairvaux, 11th century. "Dinner at Grandma's" - by Mark Heard, Pat Terry, Jeff Vansant, Wayne King. Side one # "On Turning to Dust" # "Dinner at Grandma's" # "Cabin in Gloryland" # "A Friend" # "Lullabye" Side two # "Solid Rock" # "To Diane" # "Interlude (traditional: Greensleeves & There Is a Fountain)" # "The Road" # "Interlud ...
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Fingerprint (album)
''Fingerprint'' is an album by Mark Heard, released in Europe in 1980 on Palmfrond Communications. Heard later named his record label, Fingerprint Records, and home studio, Fingerprint Recorders, after this album. Track listing All songs written by Mark Heard Side one # "I'm In Chains" – 3:39 # "Nowadays" – 3:24 # "One More Time" – 3:02 # "Epistle" – 2:50 # "Just the Same" – 3:19 # "Well–worn Pages" – 2:51 Side two # "Intro" – 0:25 # "Gimme Mine" – 3:23 # "All the Sleepless Dreamers" – 3:29 # "Negative Charge" – 3:56 # "Brown-Eyed Sue" – 3:20 # "Es Tut Mir Leid" – 1:55 # "Remarks To Mr. McLuhan" – 2:04 # "Threefold Amen" – 0:23 The band *Mark Heard – acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar, electric lead and slide guitars, mandolins, Moog, percussion, vocals, backing vocals *Janet Sue Heard – additional backing vocals *Peter Johnson – drums. * Jon Linn – electric and acoustic lead and slide guitars. * Tom Howard – piano, synthesi ...
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Randy Stonehill
Randall Evan Stonehill (born March 12, 1952) is an American singer and songwriter from Stockton, California, best known as one of the pioneers of contemporary Christian music. His music is primarily folk rock in the style of James Taylor, but some of his albums have focused on new wave, pop, pop rock, roots rock, and children's music. Early life Randy Stonehill was born in Stockton, California.Source Citation: Birthdate: March 12, 1952; Birth County: San Joaquin. Source Information: Ancestry.com. California Birth Index, 1905–1995 the son of Leonard N. Stonehill and his wife, Pauline Correia and is the younger brother of Jeffrey Dean Stonehill. He graduated from Leigh High School, in San Jose, California, then moved to Los Angeles where he stayed with Christian rock singer, Larry Norman. Career Stonehill's first album, ''Born Twice'' was released in 1971, with financial help from Pat Boone. The album—one side a live performance, the other recorded in a studio—was re ...
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Tom Howard (musician)
Tom Howard (February 23, 1950 – January 29, 2010) was an American pianist, musical arranger and orchestral conductor. In 1983, Howard helped the rock band Daniel Amos form the Alarma! Records label. On January 29, 2010, Howard suffered a fatal heart attack while hiking at Edwin Warner Park in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Dori.Wonderland, Interrupted, http://eviecoates.blogspot.com/2010/01/wonderland-interrupted.html Howard family friend Evie Coates received the news directly and announced it on her blog Discography Solo * ''View from the Bridge'', 1977, Solid Rock Records * ''Danger in Loving You'', 1981, NewPax Records * ''One by One'', Tom Howard & Billy Batstone, 1985, A&S Records/Maranatha! Music * ''The Harvest'', (Colours Series), 1985 Maranatha! Music (reissued in 2001 on Maranatha!'s ''Sanctuary'' series under the title ''Reflection'') * ''The Hidden Passage'', Tom Howard Ensemble, 1986, Maranatha! Music (reissued on Maranatha!'s ''Sanctuary'' series unde ...
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Fender Rhodes
The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, the hammers strike thin metal tines, which vibrate next to an electromagnetic pickup. The signal is then sent through a cable to an external keyboard amplifier and speaker. The instrument evolved from Rhodes's attempt to manufacture pianos while teaching recovering soldiers during World War II. Development continued after the war and into the following decade. In 1959, Fender began marketing the Piano Bass, a cut-down version; the full-size instrument did not appear until after Fender's sale to CBS in 1965. CBS oversaw mass production of the Rhodes piano in the 1970s, and it was used extensively through the decade, particularly in jazz, pop, and soul music. It was less used in the 1980s because of competition with polyphonic and digital ...
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Al Perkins
Al Perkins (born January 18, 1944) is an American guitarist known primarily for his steel guitar work. The Gibson guitar company called Perkins "the world's most influential dobro player" and began producing an "Al Perkins Signature" Dobro in 2001—designed and autographed by Perkins. Early years Al Perkins was born and raised in Texas and learned to play Hawaiian steel guitar at the age of 9. In the 1950s Perkins was considered a child prodigy, playing with regional country and western bands, appearing on TV/radio, and winning several talent contests. In the early 1960s, Perkins began playing electric guitar with west Texas rock bands, and was discovered by Mickey Jones and Kenny Rogers of The First Edition. By 1966, he enlisted into the Army National Guard and was discharged from the US Army Reserves in 1970. 1970s In 1970, Perkins joined the east Texas country rock band, Shiloh, and moved to California. The band included Don Henley and future producer/record executive Jim ...
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Chuck Long
Charles Franklin Long Jr. (born February 18, 1963) is a former American football player and coach who is the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Dallas Renegades of the XFL. He played quarterback in college at Iowa for Hayden Fry and professionally with the Detroit Lions and the Los Angeles Rams. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999. After his professional career, Long was an assistant coach at Iowa and Oklahoma before serving as the head football coach at San Diego State. Long also held a position as the offensive coordinator for the Kansas Jayhawks under head coach Turner Gill. Long is the CEO and Executive Director of the Iowa Sports Foundation, the organization that runs the Iowa Games, the Senior Games, Adaptive Sports Iowa, Iowa Corporate Games and the Live Healthy Iowa challenge, as well as an analyst for the Big Ten Network. Background Born in Norman, Oklahoma, and raised in Wheaton, Illinois, Long attended Wheaton North High Sc ...
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