How the West Was One, released in 1977, is a three-LP live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 featuring 2nd Chapter of Acts

2nd Chapter of Acts

The 2nd Chapter of Acts was a Jesus Music and early Contemporary Christian Music group composed of sisters Annie Herring and Nelly Greisen and brother Matthew Ward. They began performing in 1973 and enjoyed their period of greatest success during the 1970s...

, Phil Keaggy

Phil Keaggy

Phil Keaggy 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...

 and a band called David

A band called David

a band called David was a group of musicians who provided the instrumental support from 1974 until 1988 for the 2nd Chapter of Acts, a Contemporary Christian music group....

. The album was culled from a series of 18 concerts held throughout the western United States in 1977. It was also 2nd Chapter of Acts' final release for Myrrh Records

Myrrh Records

Myrrh Records, also known as Myrrh Worship, is a Christian music record label. According to Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music, the label was instrumental in developing a popular following for Contemporary Christian music as the label that first published music by Barry McGuire, 2nd Chapter of...

.

Half the album (sides 1, 5 and 6) was performed by 2nd Chapter of Acts and half by Phil Keaggy. The two artists backed each other up throughout (except on side 3). Besides material from previous albums by both artists, the album features two songs from Annie Herring

Annie Herring

Annie Herring is one of the pioneers of the Jesus music genre, later to be called Contemporary Christian music. She was more notably a part of the trio, 2nd Chapter of Acts in which she wrote most of the songs and sang lead and harmony vocals with her brother Matthew Ward and sister Nelly Greisen...

's first solo album (Through a Child's Eyes) and three otherwise unavailable songs (one each by Keaggy, Ward

Matthew Ward (singer)

Matthew Ward is one of the pioneers of the Jesus music genre, later to be called Contemporary Christian music. He is best known as a part of the trio, 2nd Chapter of Acts in which he sang and performed with his sisters, Annie Herring and Nellie Greisen...

 with Souther

Richard Souther

Richard Douglas Trowbridge Souther is a composer, producer, arranger, sound designer and multi-keyboardist who has built a strong reputation as a top contemporary solo instrumentalist for over twenty years...

, and Herring).

Side one

1. Concert Intro — 2:26
2. "Hey, Watcha Say" — 3:38
3. Song Intro — 0:34
4. "Keep On Shinin'" — 3:27
5. Song Intro — 1:08
6. "I Fall in Love"/"Change" — 4:43
7. "Now That I Belong to You" — 3:43
8. Phil's Intro — 0:23

Side two

1. Song Intro — 0:42
2. "What a Day" — 5:56
3. Song Intro 1:00
4. "Love Broke Thru" — 3:37
5. Song Intro — 0:27
6. "Take Me Closer" — 5:07
7. Song Intro — 0:23
8. "My Life" — 5:39

Side four

1. Song Intro — 0:03
2. "Just the Same" — 4:08
3. Song Intro — 0:06
4. "Hallelujah" — 5:47
5. "Time" — 9:44

Side five

1. Song Intro — 1:10
2. "Easter Song
   Easter Song
   Easter Song is a Contemporary Christian song that simply and joyfully tells of Jesus Christ’s resurrection and the elation Christians feel about this resurrection on Easter...
   
   " — 3:45
3. Song Intro — 1:02
4. "Dance With You" — 3:08
5. "Which Way the Wind Blows" — 4:44
6. Song Intro — 2:44
7. "Something Tells Me" — 3:52

Side six

1. "Yaweh" — 3:24
2. Song Intro — 1:46
3. "PS 61" — 2:32
4. "Grinding Stone" — 2:43
5. "Receive" — 3:52
6. Song Intro — 0:30
7. Medley: "Morning Comes When You Call" and "The Son Comes Over the Hill" — 6:20

Personnel

• Wally Duguid: Engineer
• Nelly Greisen
  Nelly Greisen
  Nelly Greisen was born on December 11, 1955. She joined her older sister, Annie Herring, and younger brother, Matthew Ward, to form the Jesus Music group 2nd Chapter of Acts. The group began singing together in 1970, and disbanded in 1988...
  
  : Vocals
• Gene Gunnels: Drums
• Annie Herring
  Annie Herring
  Annie Herring is one of the pioneers of the Jesus music genre, later to be called Contemporary Christian music. She was more notably a part of the trio, 2nd Chapter of Acts in which she wrote most of the songs and sang lead and harmony vocals with her brother Matthew Ward and sister Nelly Greisen...
  
  : Piano, Vocals
• Buck Herring: Producer, Mixer
• Phil Keaggy
  Phil Keaggy
  Phil Keaggy 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...
  
  : Guitar, Vocals
• Herb Melton: Bass
• Richard Souther
  Richard Souther
  Richard Douglas Trowbridge Souther is a composer, producer, arranger, sound designer and multi-keyboardist who has built a strong reputation as a top contemporary solo instrumentalist for over twenty years...
  
  : Piano, Multi-Keyboards, Background Vocals
• Matthew Ward
  Matthew Ward (singer)
  Matthew Ward is one of the pioneers of the Jesus music genre, later to be called Contemporary Christian music. He is best known as a part of the trio, 2nd Chapter of Acts in which he sang and performed with his sisters, Annie Herring and Nellie Greisen...
  
  : Vocals
• Peter York: Rhythm Guitar, Background Vocals