Reflecting on 1970, Keaggy recalls:

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

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.

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

Years later, Amboy Dukes guitarist Ted Nugent was quoted as saying " I don't know what happened to that Phil Keaggy.

I wanted it to say " Phil Keaggy and Sunday ’ s Child ," and to me, that was Olivia, being as she ’ s my daughter.

One track, " I've Just Begun ( Again )," was first written when Keaggy was 17, and was updated for this album.

The song was written, musically, in 1967 when Keaggy was in ninth grade.

Also in 1995, Keaggy was voted by Guitar Player Magazine readers as the # 2 Best Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitarist.

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 says, " that was a very cool album that ... Christians and Christian bookstores and ... the marketplace ... couldn ’ t make the connection, because it ’ s electric guitar music.

Lacking the slick production style of the previous vocal album, True Believer, Phil Keaggy was a strong return to form for Keaggy in terms of recapturing his usual organic, live sound.

The disc was a reunion of the Phil Keaggy Band in which they updated their classic 1977 album, Emerging.

On October 29, 2007 Keaggy was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame by P. O. D.

In 2008, Keaggy received the Gold Level Award as the " Best Spiritual / Worship Guitarist ", as voted by readers of Acoustic Guitar Magazine, as well as appearing in the form of vocals and lead guitar on the Richard Cummins CD, Moments, which was nominated for " Best Pop / Contemporary Album of the Year " by the Canadian GMA's, Covenant award.

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.

His nephew was married to contemporary Christian singer songwriter Cheri Keaggy.

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 ).

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

In addition to his own material, Keaggy recorded two Mark Heard songs for the album: " I Always Do " and " Everything is Alright.

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 ).

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 that year, Stonehill with Todd Fishkind and Keith Green wrote " Until Your Love Broke Through ", which would be recorded by numerous artists over the years including Stonehill himself, Phil Keaggy, Russ Taff and others.

* Together Live, 2006 live album recorded with Phil Keaggy

Also that year, the band recorded a cover of " We Can Work It Out " by The Beatles with guitar legend Phil Keaggy for the various artists tribute CD Come Together: America Salutes The Beatles.

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") The song " All Our Wishes " is a story about Phil and Bernadette Keaggy losing a baby.

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

He went on a national tour with Keaggy for about a year.

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

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.

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.

Aside from the obvious influence on artists that Taylor has worked with over the years, numerous notable people have named Taylor and DA as musical heroes over the years including artists like U2, The Ocean Blue, Randy Stonehill, The 77s, Phil Keaggy, Steve Taylor, Jimmy Abegg, Phil Madeira, Crystal Lewis, This Train, Carolyn Arends ( Arends actually used to perform DA songs in one of her early bands ), Ventriloquist Terry Fator, Brian Healy, The Throes, The Choir, Mortal, Larry Norman, Animator and Musician Doug TenNapel, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Isaac Air Freight, Deliverance, Starflyer59, Jonathan Coulton ,< ref >

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

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

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