In June 2009, Keaggy and Randy Stonehill released a new studio album titled Mystery Highway.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

2002's Edge of the World ( this time on Fair Oaks Records ) followed, which brought together a number of musical friends including Phil Keaggy, Barry McGuire, Noel Paul Stookey, Love Song, Phil Madeira, Mike Roe, Russ Taff, and Sara Groves, and Larry Norman.

Many music groups developed out of this, and some became leaders within the Jesus movement, most notably Barry McGuire, Love Song, Second Chapter of Acts, All Saved Freak Band, Servant, Petra, Resurrection Band, Phil Keaggy, Dion DiMucci, Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul, and Mary ; Randy Stonehill, Randy Matthews, Andraé Crouch ( and the Disciples ), Nancy Honeytree, Keith Green, and Larry Norman.

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In 1982, Keaggy released Play Thru Me, noted for its upbeat classic, " Morning Light " as well as the slide-guitar instrumental workout entitled " Happy.

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

Comprising Keaggy, guitarist Lynn Nichols, keyboardist Phil Madeira, bassist Dan Cunningham and drummer Terry Andersen, the Phil Keaggy Band released their lone album in 1977, Emerging.

In 1978, Keaggy released his first critically acclaimed instrumental album entitled The Master and the Musician.

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.

The next year Phil Keaggy released his second instrumental album, The Wind and the Wheat.

Referring to the Sunday's Child album cover, Keaggy says that the idea

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

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

In 1992, Keaggy released what has become a landmark acoustic instrumental album, Beyond Nature.

Years later, in reflecting on the album, Keaggy would say that True Believer " is really the most unlike me of any album I ’ ve ever done, in my personal opinion.

The following year Keaggy released another critically acclaimed instrumental album, Acoustic Sketches.

Comprising mainly Keaggy originals, the album features a cover of " Swing Low, Sweet Chariot ," and would later win Keaggy another Dove Award.

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.

Phil Keaggy, Phil's last vocal album of the decade, came out in 1998.

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.