Glenn Kaiser
Encyclopedia
Glenn Kaiser is a Chicago
-based Christian
blues
musician, singer-songwriter
and pastor
. He was the leader of Resurrection Band
and is currently the leader of The Glenn Kaiser Band.
Glenn Kaiser was raised as a nominal Lutheran and experimented in drugs before he became a born-again Christian, around the time of his eighteenth birthday. He was quoted as saying: "Nothing else gave me so much happiness or sense of purpose until I asked Jesus Christ to come into my heart and become absolute Lord of my life."
http://www.jpusa.org/lessons1a.html), where he met Wendi, his future wife. Wendi's brother, John Herrin, Jr., and Glenn later became members of the pastoral team before the age of twenty-five. JPUSA is the community that organizes the Cornerstone Festival
, at which Glenn Kaiser and Resurrection Band have played.
term for "love"). It was a traveling team and a mobile outreach of Jesus People of Milwaukee until the ministry disbanded in the summer of 1972. "Charity" changed its name to "Resurrection Band" around March 1972 and the band, as part of The USA Traveling Team left Milwaukee for the last time in early June 1972. They performed on the road for a few months, while loosely-based in Florida, before calling Chicago home in early 1973 with Jesus People USA. Though many considered it "the devil's music," Resurrection Band helped the movement of Contemporary Christian music
towards blues and rock music
. It disbanded, after nearly thirty years, in 2000.
Although the band did indeed break up in 2000, they have recently got together for a few reunion shows. Resurrection Band performed at Cornerstone Festival 2008 for the festival's 25th anniversary and also performed at the Chelsea House, a Chicago coffeehouse run by JPUSA. The key members of the band were the same at both shows, but Mike Choby (the bassist for Maron (band), another Jesus People USA band) filled in on keyboards.
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
-based Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
musician, singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
and pastor
Pastor
The word pastor usually refers to an ordained leader of a Christian congregation. When used as an ecclesiastical styling or title, this role may be abbreviated to "Pr." or often "Ps"....
. He was the leader of Resurrection Band
Resurrection Band
Resurrection Band, also known as Rez Band or REZ, was a Christian rock band formed in 1972. They were part of the Jesus People USA Christian community in Chicago and most of its members have continued in that community to this day. Known for their blend of blues-rock and hard rock, Resurrection...
and is currently the leader of The Glenn Kaiser Band.
Childhood
Kaiser's older brother and sister left the house while he was still young and his parents divorced when he was nine years old. Kaiser was active in Milwaukee's music scene, starting at the age of twelve, and was a member of more than twelve bands, leading two, before reaching nineteen years of age.Glenn Kaiser was raised as a nominal Lutheran and experimented in drugs before he became a born-again Christian, around the time of his eighteenth birthday. He was quoted as saying: "Nothing else gave me so much happiness or sense of purpose until I asked Jesus Christ to come into my heart and become absolute Lord of my life."
JPUSA
Kaiser joined and got involved in The USA Traveling Team of Jesus People Milwaukee (later renamed Jesus People USAJesus People USA
Jesus People USA is a Christian intentional community in Uptown, on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1972, coming out of Jesus People Milwaukee in the Jesus Movement, and is the largest of the few remaining communes from that movement...
http://www.jpusa.org/lessons1a.html), where he met Wendi, his future wife. Wendi's brother, John Herrin, Jr., and Glenn later became members of the pastoral team before the age of twenty-five. JPUSA is the community that organizes the Cornerstone Festival
Cornerstone Festival
Cornerstone Festival is a Christian music festival put on by Jesus People USA and held annually around the 4th of July near Bushnell, Illinois. In a given year, many artists that play at Cornerstone also play at other events such as Creation Festival and mainstream festivals and tours such as the...
, at which Glenn Kaiser and Resurrection Band have played.
Later life
Glenn Kaiser married former Resurrection Band member Wendi Herrin (born April 8, 1953) in June 1972. Glenn and Wendi have one son, Aaron, and three daughters: Rebecca (husband Matt), Heidi, and Amy (husband Brian). In 1994 Glenn Kaiser published a book, The Responsibility of the Christian Musician.Resurrection Band
Glenn Kaiser's most successful and prominent band is Resurrection Band. Personnel included his wife Wendi, Wendi's brother John Herrin, Jim Denton, who was later replaced by Roy Montroy in 1991, and Stu Heiss. It began in mid-December 1971 as a band of the Jesus People of Milwaukee (part of The USA Traveling Team) and was first known as "Charity" (the King James BibleKing James Version of the Bible
The Authorized Version, commonly known as the King James Version, King James Bible or KJV, is an English translation of the Christian Bible by the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611...
term for "love"). It was a traveling team and a mobile outreach of Jesus People of Milwaukee until the ministry disbanded in the summer of 1972. "Charity" changed its name to "Resurrection Band" around March 1972 and the band, as part of The USA Traveling Team left Milwaukee for the last time in early June 1972. They performed on the road for a few months, while loosely-based in Florida, before calling Chicago home in early 1973 with Jesus People USA. Though many considered it "the devil's music," Resurrection Band helped the movement of Contemporary Christian music
Contemporary Christian music
Contemporary Christian music is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith...
towards blues and rock music
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
. It disbanded, after nearly thirty years, in 2000.
Although the band did indeed break up in 2000, they have recently got together for a few reunion shows. Resurrection Band performed at Cornerstone Festival 2008 for the festival's 25th anniversary and also performed at the Chelsea House, a Chicago coffeehouse run by JPUSA. The key members of the band were the same at both shows, but Mike Choby (the bassist for Maron (band), another Jesus People USA band) filled in on keyboards.
Independent Cassettes
- Music to Raise the DeadMusic to Raise the DeadMusic to Raise the Dead is the first independent cassette from American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1974. Although technically the band's first release, the album Awaiting Your Reply four years later is considered by most to be the band's official debut.- Recording history...
(1974) - All Your LifeAll Your LifeAll Your Life is the second independent cassette from American Christian rock group Resurrection Band, released in late 1974.- Recording history :...
(1974)
Studio Albums
- Awaiting Your ReplyAwaiting Your ReplyAwaiting Your Reply is the debut album by American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1978.- Recording history :The album was recorded for only $8000 US over a period of two weeks in marathon all-night sessions ending on Easter Sunday morning...
(1978) - Rainbow's EndRainbow's EndRainbow's End is the second full-length album by American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1979.-Recording history:Resurrection Band continues in its Led Zeppelin-inspired rock vein with this record...
(1979) - ColoursColours (Resurrection Band album)Colours is the third full-length album by American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1980.-Recording history:Colours was Resurrection Band's first release for Christian label Light Records, which had up to this time been known as the primary record label for Andrae Crouch and...
(1980) - Mommy Don't Love Daddy AnymoreMommy Don't Love Daddy AnymoreMommy Don't Love Daddy Anymore is the fourth full-length album by American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1981.-Recording history:...
(1981) - D.M.Z.D.M.Z. (album)D.M.Z. is the fifth full-length album by American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1982. It was the band's final release for Light Records.-Recording history:...
(1982) - HostageHostage (album)Hostage is the eight release, and sixth studio album, from American Christian rock band Resurrection Band , released in late 1984.-Recording history:...
(1984) - Between Heaven 'N HellBetween Heaven 'N HellBetween Heaven 'N Hell is the ninth release, and seventh studio album, from American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1985...
(1985) - Silence ScreamsSilence ScreamsSilence Screams is the 10th release, and eighth studio album, by American Christian rock band Resurrection Band , released in 1988.-Recording history:...
(1988) - Innocent BloodInnocent Blood (album)Innocent Blood is the 12th release, and ninth studio album, by American Christian rock band Resurrection Band , released in 1989.-Recording history:...
(1989) - Civil RitesCivil RitesCivil Rites is the 13th release, and 10th studio album, by American Christian rock band Resurrection Band , released in 1991.-Recording history:...
(1991) - Reach of LoveReach of LoveReach of Love is the 15th release, and 11th studio album, from American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1993. This would be the last time the band would use the shortened moniker "REZ."-Recording history:...
(1993) - Lament (1995)
- AmpendectomyAmpendectomyAmpendectomy is the 18th release and final studio album from American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1997.-Recording history:...
(1997)
Live Albums
- Live Bootleg (1984)
- XX Years LiveXX Years LiveXX Years Live is the 14th release, and second live album, from American Christian rock band Resurrection Band , released in 1992.-Recording history:...
(1992)
Compilation Albums
- The Best of REZ: Music to Raise the DeadThe Best of REZ: Music to Raise the DeadThe Best of REZ: Music to Raise the Dead was the seventh release, and first compilation album, from American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1984.-Recording history:...
(1984) - REZ: Compact FavoritesREZ: Compact FavoritesREZ: Compact Favorites was the 11th release, and second compilation album, from American Christian rock band Resurrection Band , released in 1988.-Recording history:...
(1988) - The Light YearsThe Light YearsThe Light Years is the 16th release, and the third compilation album, from American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1995.-Recording history:...
(1995) - Music to Raise the Dead 1972-1998Music to Raise the Dead 1972-1998Music to Raise the Dead 1972-1998 is the 19th release from American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in July 2008 through . The box-set includes three CDs with 52 digitally re-mastered songs, an 80-page full-color booklet detailing the history of Rez Band with scores of photos, and...
(2008)
Glenn Kaiser Band
- Winter Sun (2000)
- Carolina Moon (2001)
- Blacktop (2003)
- GKB Live (2005)
- Octane (2008)
Solo and other albums
- Trimmed and Burnin (1990, as Kaiser/MansfieldDarrell MansfieldDarrell Mansfield is an American gospel/blues musician.-Biography:Mansfield got his musical start in 1974, releasing his first album Gentle Faith in 1976. He later formed the Darrell Mansfield Band...
) - Slow Burn (1993, as Kaiser/Mansfield)
- All My Days (1993)
- Spontaneous Combustion (1994)
- Into the Night (1995, as Kaiser/Mansfield/HowardLarry HowardLawrence Rayford Howard is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played four seasons with the Houston Astros and Atlanta Braves .-External links:...
) - Throw Down Your Crowns (1997)
- You Made The Difference in Me (1998, Review: HM Magazine)
- Time Will Tell (1999, Review: HM Magazine)
- Blues Heaven (1999)
- Ripley County Blues (2002)
- No Greater Love (2002, as "Glenn Kaiser and Friends")
- Trimmed and Burnin' & Slow Burn (2002, as Kaiser/Mansfield)
- Bound For Glory]] (2006)
- Blues Heaven II (2006)
- Cardboard Box (2011)