Introduction: If you’re familiar with the Musician Phil Keaggy, you’ll recognize the Band, Glass Harp, as where he began his career as one of the top guitarists in the world. From the humble beginnings in Youngstown, Ohio, to their appearance at Carnegie Hall, this would be a time for him to refine his guitar playing, […]
Sophomore Effort This is Larry Norman’s second album, Street Level. This would be the Album I first heard back in 1974 at the Jesus Store. We carried it and had a Demo that my partner, Ray McMahon, raved over. He was 15 years older than I and had been a real life “Hippy”. He had
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Not long after Larry Norman’s 1969 debut album, “Upon This Rock”, a Southern Boy from a Gospel Music Family, Mylon LeFevre, would come out with his own version of Christian Rock called, Mylon (We Believe). Mylon R. LeFevre was a Christian Rock Musician best known for his band, Mylon and Broken Heart. His band received
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Introduction: For those of you familiar with “Jesus Music”, and/or the Revival we know as the “Jesus Movement”, you’ll also recognize that “this Album” and the man behind it, Larry Norman, helped define it! Take the next 30 minutes or so, listen to this LP, and read through the following Article. It will help you
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Recording Career (continued) In 1978, Norman was injured during a plane landing at Los Angeles International Airport. Norman claimed to have suffered mild brain damage due to being hit by parts of the cabin’s roof, and that this damage left him unable to complete projects and focus artistically. William Ayers wrote in 1991: “As family,
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Recording Career (continued) By the early 1970s, Norman was performing frequently for large audiences, and appeared at several Christian music festivals, including Explo ’72, a six-day Dallas, Texas, event which has been called the “Jesus Woodstock.” Norman established a half-way house where he “housed and fed various groups of people, supervised their Bible studies and
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Hollywood Street Ministry Soon after Norman left People!, he had “a powerful spiritual encounter that threw him into a frenzy of indecision about his life [and] for the first time in his life, he received what he understood to be the Holy Spirit”. In July 1968, following a job offer to write musicals for Capitol
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Introduction: From the earliest moments of the Jesus Movement, Larry Norman has had a predominant place. In many ways, his name alone is synonymous with the revival. Let’s go back in a Time Machine and revisit the events that formed the man we think we know. (Below Material courtesy Wikipedia) Larry David Norman (April 8,
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