One night in 2008, I joined the University Judge chapel to watch and hear a little history. Phil Keaggy, backed by a full band, played every note from his magnum opus, 1978's instrumental album The Master & the Musician. The maestro guitarist and the band's friends played the entire record sequentially, and received lively applause afterwards.
This is the 30th anniversary of the album's release, so Keaggy celebrated with several concerts. (This is one of the songs from the tour). Many are present, like me, 50s who bought the album when it first came out. We are still musical, which has not evolved into the massively multi-million dollar empire we now know as Contemporary Christian Music (CCM).
Master & the Musician went on to become his best-selling record, and Keaggy continued to grow with the industry-sometimes conveniently in the middle, sometimes at the end, occasionally avoiding it altogether with indie releases that included small, if any- Christianity.
Keaggy did not write for the record company. He did not write for radio. He did not write for the church. The songs are not made according to any formula.
Thank you God.
Keaggy only wrote the music he wanted to write, and released it to the world market-Christian, secular, crossover, it does not matter-and ...