Is Phil Keaggy’s ‘Love Broke Thru’ the Ultimate Yacht Rock Album? – RedState

I woke up today to the news of a dear friend saying an earthly farewell to his last remaining parent, his father now joining his mother, who died earlier this year. Such events quickly put things in perspective, because some of us remember the long day and even more at night when it was in our turn to hear that we had never wanted to hear, but I knew that one day would call. Others wait in a silent fear of when it is their time, knowing that the impact will be, much worse than even their darkest imagination can come together.

At these moments, seeking comfort in the pet is a natural reaction. An artistic expression from happier moments often brings peace, whether this expression is or never considered “cool”. This is the case of the 1976 album of the guitarist Maestro Phil Keaggy, “Love Broke Thru”, which recently experienced a successful campaign to be remastered and reassessed alongside gobs of bonus of goodness focused on the first -rate musicality and extended jams. While waiting for this pleasure to leave the vinyl and CD factories on the way to eager ears, an overview of the original album is more than justified.

At the time of its release, the Christian music industry barely existed. Money was not the object, because there was none. Instead, they were artists and record companies, often a person’s operations, struggling together to create and distribute a sufficient product to keep the lights lit while suffering with pleasure from all the temporal challenges to proclaim the good news when the Revolution of Jesus is always reflected in all the culture of youth. The artists were a mixture of local talents and converted on the secular side, one of them being Keaggy, who first attracted the attention of the public as a guitarist and primary singer for the early 1970s, the glass harp of the progressive Ohio jam based in Ohio.

For “Love Broke Thru”, Keaggy and the Company, including album producer Buck Herring, decided to go against the standard and bring together sufficient funds for a leading registration budget, the spending wisely. With Keagggy naturally managing all the guitar games, the support group was up to par. Leland Sklar, bass player in the appointment of rock royalty whose studio credits include Whitney Houston and Phil Collins among hundreds of others, held the rhythm section alongside drummer Jim Gordon, whose credits included Derek and dominoes before the death of Schizophrenia. Piano worthy behind “Bridge over Troubled Waters” by Simon & Garfunkel. The synthesizers and string arrangements came to Michael Omartian, who, a few years later, would become known for his work with the Master of Yacht Rock Christopher Cross. The wife of Buck Herring, Annie Herring, and Buck Herring’s younger brother, and Annie’s younger brother, Matthew Ward of the Seminal Christian Rock Vocal Ensemble, the 2nd chapter of acts, as well as the grain of hot south rock of the late Mylon Lefevre, who, four years after the concert of the concert.

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I mentioned Yacht Rock. With its sophisticated and smooth textures, musically, “Love Broke Thru” is comfortably found alongside other known albums of the genre, such as “Minute by Minute” of Doobie Brothers and artists like Kenny Loggins. So, yes, Yacht Rock, but with some notable differences. The location of the yacht is the Galileo Sea, not Santa Monica. The owners are fishermen, not high -roller financiers. More appreciably, the best known occupant of the boat loves very early in the morning outside the limits of the ship, and instead of simply complaining about the weather, actually does something.

In a fair world, the song’s title of the album would have been a top 10. Mainly written by the late Keith Green, his melody was magnificent at the time and remains beautiful today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uxbzbhtbmc

Keaggy’s penchant for maximum lyric depth corresponds to its pursuit of musical excellence. It often defines deep prose from the past to superbly instrumented and arranged support. For example, on the album “Love Broke Thru”, he used “As the Ruin Falls” by CS Lewis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFXKFQZYFZ8

The album is at the same time flexible, serene and impulse, without sacrificing beauty or well -formed muscles to pass its points. Keaggy is not just a world class guitarist on acoustics and electric. He is a real musician, an artist whose gift even transcends his brilliant game and his writing to create a whole synergistic. Although undoubtedly a product of its time, “Love Broke Thru” remains a pure crime. The enlarged recovery will be available after those who arrived early in the Kickstarter campaign, now concluded, obtain their copies first; For now, the original album remains available on Bandcamp.

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