Xian / Religious

Now serving all religions.

  • Young Approach: More Love Around Young Approach: More Love Around

    “The young approach to music is here.  We choose love as our theme.  We sing, we write, we play and live it.  It’s in our every scheme.  Of all that we have experienced, love is the best we’ve found.  Now we pass it on to you, so there’s more love around.”  If ever there was [...]

  • Jim Gill - Spectacles Jim Gill – Spectacles

    There is something that is kind of appealing about this country/gospel LP. Jim Gill runs through a bunch of styles (often within the same song) and the band is pretty tight. There is definitely some cool, smart and humorous songwriting going down here and often that’s a tough thing to find on [...]

  • Bill & Jean Bradway: Gospel Hawaiianaires Bill & Jean Bradway: Gospel Hawaiianaires

    I guess it’s pretty fair to say that as of 2010 I’ve become a bit jaded when it comes to records. The sense of anything being possible I used to feel when walking into a strange Goodwill has all but left me. There was certainly a time when flipping to a dude in a bow [...]

  • Warren Kime - Children of Time Warren Kime – Children of Time

    Warren Kime may be best known to record collectors for his trio of Brass Impact LPs on the Command label released in the mid-to-late 60’s. An excellent overview of his career and how these LPs came to be can be found here: http://www.spaceagepop.com/kime.htm.
    There’s one LP the Space Age Pop overview missed, though, as his “Children [...]

  • Jagad Guru Chris Butler & Friends - Mantra Electric Jagad Guru Chris Butler & Friends – Mantra Electric

    Imagine if you will, Carlos Santana fronting Pink Floyd circa Wish You Were Here, with a dash of Camel and a little Popol Vuh for flavoring.  Add some synth and smooth melodic vocal harmonies chanting devotion to Hare Krishna, and you’ve got the sound of Jagad Guru Chris Butler’s “Mantra Electric” double LP.  Released in [...]

  • Muruga: Little Nada Drummer Boy Muruga: Little Nada Drummer Boy

    With just 2 days to go until Xmas, I almost missed my window of opportunity for 2009. I like to imagine legions of fans depending upon me to post my yearly slice of ridiculous exploito holiday trash. Believe it or not, I hate Xmas music. And yet, somehow it keeps making its way into my [...]

  • Jim Valley: Family Jim Valley: Family

    Here is a taste of ‘Family’ by Jim Valley with Steve Schurr. Jim writes some mighty peaceful and solid songs. Good ones come one after another on this folk-rock set from Light Records. “All Is Well” is off the more rocking first side and has a sound that reminds me of Tommy Flanders or Tim [...]

  • Ani Ma-Amin Ani Ma-Amin

    Debbie Friedman leads a group of Minnesota musicians in a set of songs that comprise, in her words, a “musical montage spanning generations of Jewish liturgical and biblical vision”. Debbie’s voice is strong and sometimes the language sounds almost Japanese in nature. And so it kind of reminds me of Happy End in instrumentation and [...]

  • Randy Loyd: The Moment Randy Loyd: The Moment

    What an incredible record…fans of The Youngbloods and Poco should check this out. I was looking for good christian records at a St. Vincent De Paul, found this and took a fifty cent chance. He writes most of the songs and they’re all over the map stylistically. They all gel quite well. Check out the [...]

  • Bob Reidenbach - Come Touch The Air Softly Bob Reidenbach – Come Touch The Air Softly

    As interest continues to surge in the softer sounds of yesteryear, it is apparent that a Soft Renaissance is upon us. This is no secret to deep diggers around the globe: rival collectors are frantically scouring the earth, scrambling to Out-Soft each other with unheard obscurities of extreme gentleness. Every now and then, the collecting [...]

  • God Is For Real, Man God Is For Real, Man

    It’s taken me a good couple years to fully digest this lp, but I think I can now say with some degree of certainty that this is hands down one of the heaviest “non-music” lp’s I’ve heard. I mean, how could a 60’s record of ghetto kids interpreting the bible in jive talk be anything [...]

  • Mark Biddelman - Shiru Ladonai Shir Chadash Mark Biddelman – Shiru Ladonai Shir Chadash

    I am hardly an expert on the subject, but I have seen my fair share of Jewish religious records in the field. More often than not they are Cantor Recitations or Childrens camp songs. Less often I will stumble onto an acoustic folk album. Rarely do I stumble upon Folk-Rock with a bonafide drummer, [...]

  • Toby and Barb - Father Knows Best Toby and Barb – Father Knows Best

    OK folks. I admit it. I am a full fledged record hoarder. I am a good year into full on gluttony. Like daily thrift store visits, hours and hours in stores/dollar bins, weekends of garage/estate sales, ebay, craigslist, you name it. It is not easy with a wife and friends and neighbors. It is embarrassing [...]

  • Rasberry Jam 2/People - If We Only Have Love Rasberry Jam 2/People – If We Only Have Love

    Dollar bin find! Blank back cover & a stock front, the only other info besides band & title:”Produced by Sid Kleiner’s House Of Guitars, R.513, Califon NJ”. The People side consists entirely of covers: the Bee Gees (Words, To Love Somebody), Beatles (Birthday), Jefferson Airplane (White Rabbit), Monkees (Shades Of Grey), and The First Edition [...]

  • Lefon Andrews - Friendship With Lefon Andrews – Friendship With

    This is another inexplicable find from my favorite neighborhood thrift store (SEE ALSO: Joseph – Merry Christmas to You). I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but I was stirred to action when I learned that said thrift store closed forever this past weekend. I am sad. Seriously, that store was like a [...]

  • Deborah E. Lillygren - Someday Deborah E. Lillygren – Someday

    Where do I start? OK, I paid $1.99 for this. I don’t know if it was the gold flourishes, the old-timey lettering…maybe it was the Corporate Seal of Approval from T.D.A. Incorporated Missouri… What is important is that I bought it, and now I am sharing it with you. The inside of the gate-fold, which [...]

  • Kevin and April Ryan: “Living in the Light" Acorn 1983 Kevin and April Ryan: “Living in the Light” Acorn 1983

    Husband and wife duos always intrigue me when I come across them in the stacks of records I come across. This particular LP caught my eye a year or so ago, first based on the strength of the cover and secondly when I realized that it was a husband/wife group that had a penchant for [...]

  • Vanguard Singers: Hymns Hot & Carols Cool Vanguard Singers: Hymns Hot & Carols Cool

    I will absolutely buy any record with a priest playing bongo drums on the cover… and while admittedly this is not always a strategy that pays off, this did turn out to be an above average church kids album with a fairly “turned on” sound. Not thoroughly amazing throughout, but there is one track in [...]

  • The Followers - Gospel Meeting The Followers – Gospel Meeting

    Normally I am not a big fan or hunter of gospel records.  The gospel field is so incredibly huge & filled with so many records that are so awful that it is pretty tough to know where to start.  So I guess I am a dabbler at best when it comes to gospel records.  I [...]

  • Salvashun: the Time Has Come Salvashun: the Time Has Come

    This album was an unexpected surprise for me. At first glance I was thinking that this Lp was going to be some Xian/Rock nonsense. But since there was a Neil Young cover I began to think better of it. After proceeding to pay the exorbitant amount of .50 cents I took the record home for [...]

keep looking »