New and Upcoming Keaggy Projects
The Winter 95 and Spring 1996 issues of PKC reported the following
exciting news about Phil's new and upcoming projects. The Acoustic
Sketches album mentioned below is now available
(check out the Acoustic Sketches
page), and the "electric band thing" has been recorded and will be
released by Sparrow Records in August (see the
220 page for a preview).
- Acoustic Sketches
- A CD of Phil's improptu acoustic playing is currently planned for
distribution through the club. [Now available exclusively
through the Club!]
- New Studio Work
- Phil has been in the studio with Wes King, Michael Card, and
John Michael Talbot for an upcoming album by Card and Talbot. Phil
plays on four or five songs. Michael Card also has an album project
planned called Trinity that Phil will contribute to.
- Time, Phil Keaggy 1970-1995, Volumes I and II (now
available!)
- This double CD collection (each volume is available separately)
chronicles a quarter century of Phil's music with a selection of 35
tunes, including three previously unreleased tunes, unreleased
renditions of several Keaggy classics, and tunes from out-of-print
albums. Among the songs included are:
- Your Love Broke Through
- Be In My Heart
- Sunday's Child
- I Will Be There
- Let Everything Else Go
- We'll Meet Again (1967, previously unreleased)
- Heaven Is Home (1970, previously unreleased)
- Hope's Desire (1993, previously unreleased)
- Time (unreleased version from 1985)
- The Answer (unreleased version from 1995)
- Do Lord (live version from 1971 Carnegie Hall Glass Harp concert)
- Shouts of Joy (1993, live version)
- Theme/Where Is My Maker (from Emerging, o/p)
- Ryan's Song (from Emerging, o/p)
- Take A Look Around (from Emerging, o/p)
- Like An Island (from Getting Closer, o/p)
- Sounds (from Getting Closer, o/p)
Look for Time at your local record store or Christian
bookstore; but if you can't find it, you can purchase both volumes
online at a discount from CDnow.
- Glass Harp: Carnegie Hall Live (release by April 1996)
- Sparrow is remastering the 1971 live Glass Harp album for release
sometime in the next six months. [This album will probably be released
this year, but plans have changed and it will not be through Sparrow. Stay
tuned for details!]
- Electric Solo Style Book
- John August Publishing has plans in the works to produce
a book dissecting Phil's electric guitar solo style.
- Upcoming Instrumental Albums
- Phil is planning projects with Jimmie Le Sloas (Nashville session
player on bass, and
producer for recent projects by PFR and Randy Stonehill) including
an acoustic instrumental CD and "an electric band thing" as well.
For more details, join the club!
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Tom Loredo
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