Christian rock was often viewed as a marginal part of the nascent Contemporary Christian Music ( CCM ) and contemporary gospel industry in the 1970s and ' 80s, though Christian folk rock artists like Bruce Cockburn and rock fusion artists like Phil Keaggy had some cross-over success.

Keaggy and Moore had previously collaborated on the song " A Little Bit of Light " that appeared on the guitarist's 1998 self-titled album.

His son Ian Keaggy is the bass player for the band Hot Chelle Rae, which had a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2011.

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.

Jerry Garcia, Rudy Sarzo, Chet Atkins, Bob Dylan, David Lindley, Garry Nutt, John Fogerty, Tom Fogerty, Joan Jett, Jack White, Mikee Plastik, James Hetfield, Dave Grohl, Phil Keaggy, Mark Knopfler, Brad Paisley, and countless others had a Silvertone for their first electric, bass, or acoustic guitar.

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

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

After her death a week later, and inspired by his sister, Keaggy became a Christian.

Many guest artists appear as well, including Phil Keaggy and Linda McCrary.

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.

The online magazine Blogcritics criticized the list for introducing some undeserving guitarists while forgetting some artists perceived being perhaps more worthy, such as Johnny Marr, Phil Keaggy or John Petrucci.

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

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.

After meeting each other for the first time at the beginning of the year, the two musicians stayed in touch and created the album via email, with Johnson recording in Seattle while Keaggy recorded in Nashville.

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.

A few years later, Keaggy would perform at former Beatle Paul McCartney's sister-in-law's wedding.

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

" Comprising the rest of the group were Phil Madeira, the former keyboardist of the 1977 Phil Keaggy Band, bassist Rick Cua, and guitarist Jimmy Abegg.

Also in late 2010, Keaggy did some session work with former Monkees member Micky Dolenz for Dolenz's solo album King for a Day.

In addition to recording and touring regularly, Keaggy is currently working on a record with former Living Sacrifice and P. O. D.

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Some of the artists he worked with during this period include: Michael Jackson, Van Halen, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Stevie Wonder, Barbra Streisand, Billy Preston, Gladys Knight, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe ( Yes ), Jon Anderson, Carola Häggkvist, The Bee Gees, Roger Hodgson ( Supertramp ), Julio Iglesias, Belinda Carlisle, Richard Marx, Earth Wind and Fire, Phil Keaggy, The Gap Band, The Dazz Band, Chicago, Larry Carlton, George Benson and Earl Klugh, Boz Scaggs, Neil Diamond, Andrae Crouch, and Quincy Jones.

Having performed together occasionally since 1981, in October, Keaggy, John Sferra and Daniel Pecchio reunited as Glass Harp for a concert in their hometown of Youngstown, Ohio at a sold out Powers Auditorium.

Keaggy explains that the songs " began with me messing around at my soundchecks before the audience came in.

Keaggy has long insisted that such stories are completely unfounded, noting that " it was impossible that Jimi Hendrix could ever have heard me ... We ... recorded our first album at Electric Lady Studios two weeks after his unfortunate death, so I just can ’ t imagine how he could ’ ve heard me.

On August 6, 1972 ( shortly before their third studio album It Makes Me Glad was released ) Phil Keaggy played his final show with Glass Harp at My Father's Place, Roslyn, NY before embarking on a solo career.

In April 1981, Glass Harp reunited when Sferra and Pecchio made surprise appearances at two consecutive Phil Keaggy solo concerts in Ohio ( Cleveland's Masonic Auditorium on April 10, and Akron's Civic Theatre on April 11 ).

Sferra and Pecchio would make a similar appearance at a Keaggy solo concert in Akron in 1986, before an official Glass Harp reunion show occurred at the Akron Civic Theatre on December 27, 1988

At the tour's November 13 stop in Akron, OH ( again at the Civic Theatre ), Daniel Pecchio again joined with Keaggy / Sferra to perform several Glass Harp songs.

For some of their songs at the Hatch Shell, Dispatch shared the stage with Phil Keaggy ( guitar ), Paul Tillotson ( keyboard ), Brian Sayers ( drum kit ), and Reinaldo DeJesus ( percussion ).

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.

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.

Artists lending their talents to the project included Phil Keaggy, Victoria Williams, Chagall Guevara, Buddy Miller, Julie Miller, Daniel Amos, The Choir, Bruce Cockburn, and the Vigilantes of Love.

Phil Keaggy ( born Philip Tyler Keaggy, in Youngstown, Ohio on March 23, 1951 ) is an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist who has released more than 50 albums and contributed to many more recordings in both the contemporary Christian music and mainstream markets.

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

Keaggy went to high school in Austintown, Ohio, graduating in 1970.

Initially, it was not the guitar that attracted Keaggy to playing music.

Phil Keaggy was a member of a mid-1960s garage rock band called the Squires ; one of their songs, which he co-wrote, appears on the compilation album Highs in the Mid-Sixties, Volume 9.

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

Keaggy and Sferra then recruited bass player Daniel Pecchio.

At the time of this recording, Keaggy and Sferra were nineteen years old.

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

Keaggy recalls, " It was recorded in New York City in about a week.

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

Keaggy says, " We enjoyed playing together and we really got tight musically.

In 1973 Keaggy released What A Day, his first solo album.