Album Of The Day: Love Broke Thru by Phil Keaggy

Album Art of Phil Keaggy's Love Broke Thru album - On a black background, in the center is a photo of some stone steps or parapet or something, with a stone carving of a cherub-like boy with no clothes and a stone cloth draped over his sensitive parts. He is holding in his right hand a flower pot which had a bunch of red roses in it. Just to the right of the photo and the roses is the album title in very ornamental white lettering. To the bottom of the photo is in thin white text the artist's name with the letters really close together and even overlapping in some cases.

Released 50 years ago this month, this is the second solo album from rock/pop artist and guitar virtuoso Phil Keaggy. Until just a few years ago, these early Phil Keaggy albums were very hard to find and so I am more much more familiar with his '80s/'90s and later albums which were much more available on streaming and CD. But thanks to some work and ownership of his music by Phil Keaggy and his team, almost all of his albums are now easily available on streaming for us to listen to or even buy digitally, which I love. This is a tight, classic LP with 10 tracks stretching to nearly 40 minutes, and most of these songs are not extended jams like some of his albums later released on CD. But don't get me wrong; Phil Keaggy and his band definitely show off their skills throughout this album. As with most Christian music in the '70s, these songs are very ministry-focused, clearly speaking of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. You might recognize "Your Love Broke Through" as a Keith Green song, and it was written by Green, but this is where it was first recorded and released. This title track was recorded by a number of other artists including Keith Green in the following year. "Time" is the only track on this album that includes an extended jam and has been re-recorded by Keaggy a number of times since. If you are a fan of classic rock or Christian music, you will probably like this album. In anticipation of this 50th anniversary, last year the album was remastered and re-released on a beautiful vinyl set with a second LP and 3 CDs of demos, outtakes and alternative mixes.

Release Year: 1976
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From the shoulders up, a middle-aged rotund man wearing a dark red T-shirt is holding up a vinyl record in a cardboard slipcase that looks just like the Love Broke Thru album cover. Behind him is a room with a warm vibe, CD racks off to the right, and lot of random messiness. The man has glasses, a beard and a mustache and is smiling.

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