He also wrote and produced a tribute to surf music entitled Surfonic Water Revival, which featured performances by Phil Keaggy, Smalltown Poets, Chuck Girard, Paul Johnson, Havalina Rail Co., Rick Altizer, Plumb, The Supertones, All Star United, Skillet, Silage, Rebecca St. James, The Insyderz, and others.

Keaggy sang the majority of songs, but Pecchio and Sferra also sang lead on several numbers.

Lewis, Keaggy also included an arranged version of the author's poem " As the Ruin Falls.

" That same year also saw the formation of the Phil Keaggy Band.

A longtime fan of Lewis ' work, Keaggy also referenced the author in several song titles (" Brother Jack ", " Addison's Walk " and " County Down ").

Keaggy also appeared as a guest singer on the Ragamuffins ' " All the Way to Kingdom Come ," on his friend Rich Mullins ' last original work, The Jesus Record ( which contained demo tracks recorded by Mullins just before his 1997 death, and renditions of those songs by the Ragamuffins and other artists ).

" Majesty and Wonder would also win Keaggy a Dove Award.

" The year also saw the release of What Matters, a nine song compilation drawing mostly from the albums Phil Keaggy and Crimson and Blue.

Primarily a collection of classic hymns, the album also includes a Keaggy original composition that is centered around the Lord's Prayer.

The album consisted primarily of Keaggy originals and also featured a re-recording of " Here and Now " from 1986's Way Back Home, as well as covers of the Beatles tune " When I'm 64 " and Elton John's " The Greatest Discovery.

Phil also released two live DVDS: Phil Keaggy in Concert: St. Charles IL, and Philly Live!

In July, Keaggy also released an expanded edition of Uncle Duke.

" The year also saw Keaggy contribute a soaring re-recorded version of " Passport " on the album CPR 3 ; a compilation of musicians from the Christian Progressive Rock ( CPR ) scene.

The tour was in support of Stonehill's Can't Buy A Miracle and Keaggy's all-star tribute to ' 60s rock and roll, Phil Keaggy and Sunday's Child ( which also featured Stonehill, Steve Taylor, Derri Daugherty, Mark Heard and others lending a hand ).

Keaggy and Stonehill would also team up with singer Margaret Becker, drummer Joe English ( former member of Paul McCartney and Wings ) and others, in 1988 for the Compassion All Star Band's album One by One.

Phil Keaggy and the Glass Harp are also from Ohio.

Contemporary Christian performer Phil Keaggy is also a prolific user of the EBow, more notably in his 1979 instrumental release The Master & The Musician, which features many different sounds created with the EBow.

After the Keaggy job, Gaskill and Pinnick ( who had also been jamming with Tabor ) decided to try getting their own band together.

She continued recording throughout the 1970s and toured as a solo artist and with some of the best-known names of the Jesus Movement, such as Phil Keaggy, Mike Johnson, and Mike Warnke.

Pinnick toured with Keaggy for about a year before returning to Springfield and set about looking for a new musical project.

In 2006, Keaggy and Stonehill released a live concert on DVD and CD in support of the Compassion International Christian relief agency with which both men had long been associated.

With tour of East Coast colleges and universities having already been booked for September 1972 in support of It Makes Me Glad, Sferra and Pecchio replaced Keaggy with guitarist Tim Burks.

In 2009, Sferra and Pecchio teamed up with Keaggy, Randy Stonehill and guitarist Mike Pachelli as " The Keaggy-Stonehill Band " and played a few dates in support of Keaggy and Stonehill's album Mystery Highway.

Keaggy would later re-record two of the album's songs: a rearranged version of " I Will Be There " appears on 1993's Crimson and Blue while " Passport " received an update for the 2009 Christian Progressive Rock compilation album CPR 3.

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Mark Heard released 16 records in his lifetime, and produced and performed with many other artists as well, such as Sam Phillips ( aka Leslie Phillips ), Pierce Pettis, Phil Keaggy, Vigilantes of Love, Peter Buck of R. E. M.

Keaggy was raised in a small farmhouse in Hubbard, Ohio with nine brothers and sisters.

In 1968, Keaggy and longtime friend drummer John Sferra, along with bassist Steve Markulin, formed the band Glass Harp.

Having recorded three albums with Glass Harp, Keaggy left the band in 1972.

The songs were written while Keaggy was still with Glass Harp Keaggy performed all the instruments on the album.

Keaggy returned to the studio in 1976 with Love Broke Thru, an album which included his version of a song that would eventually be considered a classic in Christian Music: " Your Love Broke Through.

During the summer of 1977 Keaggy went on an eighteen-city tour of the western United States with 2nd Chapter of Acts and " a Band called David.

Also in 1988, Keaggy and Stonehill would team up with singer Margaret Becker, former Wings drummer Joe English and others as the Compassion All Star Band.

In 1989, Keaggy teamed up with Randy Stonehill, vocalist Russ Taff, bassist Rick Cua, Derri Daugherty, Mark Heard, Steve Taylor and other musicians to create Phil Keaggy and Sunday's Child.

Also in 1989, Keaggy hit the road with Stonehill for a tour by The Keaggy / Stonehill Band, which included Swirling Eddie drummer David Raven and Daniel Amos bassist Tim Chandler.

After the wedding, Keaggy fulfilled a lifelong dream by jamming with McCartney in a bedroom at the Eastman family estate, site of the wedding.

Keaggy followed Sunday's Child in 1990 with an all-out rock album Find Me In These Fields.

The following year saw Keaggy work with another group of talented musicians for his next project.

These recording sessions reunited Keaggy with former Glass Harp bandmate John Sferra on drums.

Keaggy says, " I started Crimson & Blue with a two-fold purpose: To record something more aggressive and to work with John again.

Shacklock's production work on the album was a departure in style and sound for Keaggy ; this would prove to be Keaggy's lone work with Shacklock.

Keaggy would then go on to sign with Word Records.

In November, Phil released The Uncle Duke project, a collaboration with his uncle Dave " Duke " Keaggy, with Phil setting his uncle's eclectic poetry to music.

Also in 2003, guitarist Muriel Anderson released an album with Keaggy entitled Uncut Gems.