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.

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.

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

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 ).

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.

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.

Glass Harp is a Youngstown, Ohio based power trio consisting of guitarist Phil Keaggy, drummer John Sferra and bassist Daniel Pecchio.

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 ).

In addition, Daniel Pecchio and John Sferra occasionally appear with Phil Keaggy for an electric set during the guitarist's solo performances in or around Ohio.

Phil Keaggy and the Glass Harp are also from Ohio.

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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.

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.

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.

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.