Phil Keaggy and Sunday's Child
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Phil Keaggy and Sunday's Child is the title of a 1988 album by guitarist 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...

, released on Myrrh Records and A&M Records simultaneously.

The record, which includes an all-star list of guest musicians and vocalists, is in many ways a tribute to 1960s pop/rock music like The Byrds
The Byrds
The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964. The band underwent multiple line-up changes throughout its existence, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group disbanded in 1973...

, The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...

, and others.

Its sound was unique in 1988 and came from its use of vintage instruments and production techniques. Worth noting is the fact that Ringo Starr's drum kit was used in all of the songs, per the album's liner notes ("SPECIAL THANKS.../...to the DRUM DOCTOR for the use of Ringo's old drum kit").

Side one

  1. "Tell Me How You Feel" (Phil Keaggy)
  2. "Sunday's Child" (Randy Stonehill
    Randy Stonehill
    Randall Evan "Randy" Stonehill is an American singer-songwriter from Stockton, California, best known as one of the so-called "fathers of contemporary Christian music". His music is primarily folk rock in the style of James Taylor, but he has assayed other styles, with various albums focused on...

    , Phil Keaggy)
  3. "I Always Do" (Mark Heard
    Mark Heard
    John Mark Heard was a record producer, folk-rock singer, and songwriter originally from Macon, Georgia, USA....

    )
  4. "I'm Gonna Get You Now" (Phil Keaggy, Lynn Nichols)
  5. "Blessed Be The Ties" (Lynn Nichols, Phil Keaggy, Steve Taylor)
  6. "This Could Be The Moment" (A. Palladino, Lynn Nichols)

Side two

  1. "Aint Got No" (Randy & Sandi Stonehill)
  2. "Somebody Loves You" (Phil Keaggy)
  3. "Big Eraser" (Lynn Nichols, L. Demers, Phil Keaggy)
  4. "Everything Is Alright" (Mark Heard)
  5. "I've Just Begun (Again)" (Phil Keaggy, Lynn Nichols)
  6. "Walk In Two Worlds" (Randy Stonehill, Phil Keaggy)
  7. "Talk About Suffering" (Traditional: Arranged by Phil Keaggy)

Personnel

  • 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...

    : Lead Vocals, guitars and bass guitars.
  • Robbie Buchanan
    Robbie Buchanan
    Robbie Buchanan is a Canadian keyboardist, songwriter, arranger, and producer.Buchanan began playing the piano at the age of 6. He acquired his first paying gig as a pianist at the age of 12 playing 6 nights a week in Dawson City, Yukon Territory. While still a teenager, Buchanan joined a band...

    : Hammond B-3.
  • Lenny Castro
    Lenny Castro
    Lenny Castro is an American freelancing percussionist in the studio recording industry in the Los Angeles area.-Early life:Castro is a percussionist of Puerto Rican descent and was born and raised in New York City. His father, Hector Castro, played the keyboard in a Latin style and gave his son...

    : Percussion.
  • Rick Cua
    Rick Cua
    Rick Cua is an American Dove Award and Grammy Award-winning Christian rock singer, songwriter, bassist, author, and ordained minister...

    : Bass Guitars.
  • Derri Daugherty
    Derri Daugherty
    Derri Daugherty is an American record producer, songwriter, guitarist and singer, best known as the lead singer and guitarist for band The Choir....

    : Backing Vocals.
  • Mark Heard
    Mark Heard
    John Mark Heard was a record producer, folk-rock singer, and songwriter originally from Macon, Georgia, USA....

    : Guitars, keyboards and Backing Vocals.
  • James Hollihan: Guitars.
  • Mike Mead
    Mike Mead
    Mike Mead is an American drummer.Mead is primarily known for his work with Phil Keaggy on his late 1980s and early 90s rock and roll records Sunday's Child, Find Me In These Fields and Crimson and Blue; Steve Taylor on I Predict 1990 and Squint; as well as with Randy Stonehill, Rick Cua, and Dave...

    : Drums.
  • Lynn Nichols
    Lynn Nichols
    Lynn Arthur Nichols is an American songwriter, producer, and musician from New York who now resides in Nashville, Tennessee.In 1977, Nichols was a member of the Phil Keaggy Band, with Phil Madeira, Terry Andersen and Dan Cunningham. The band released one album together, entitled Emerging...

    : Backing Vocals and Guitars.
  • Jimmy Lee Sloas: Backing Vocals.
  • Randy Stonehill
    Randy Stonehill
    Randall Evan "Randy" Stonehill is an American singer-songwriter from Stockton, California, best known as one of the so-called "fathers of contemporary Christian music". His music is primarily folk rock in the style of James Taylor, but he has assayed other styles, with various albums focused on...

    : Vocals.
  • Russ Taff
    Russ Taff
    Russell Taff is an American gospel singer who is originally from Farmersville, California. Taff later then moved to Arkansas where he graduated from Cutter-Morning Star High School in Hot Springs, Arkansas....

    : Backing Vocals.
  • Steve Taylor
    Steve Taylor
    Roland Stephen Taylor , is an American Christian singer, songwriter, record producer and film director.-Early life:Taylor, the eldest of three children, was born in Brawley, California. Taylor's father, Roland Taylor, was a Baptist minister. When Taylor was six years old, the family relocated to...

    : "Hand Claps."
  • Alwyn Wall: Backing Vocals.
  • Rudy Valentine: Megaphone.

Production notes

  • Produced by L. Arthur Nichols.
  • Director of Recording: Jack Joseph Puig
    Jack Joseph Puig
    Jack Joseph Puig is a Grammy Award-winning music engineer and producer with a long track record of successful productions, including the mid-1990s production of Tonic. Puig also worked with Hole, Jellyfish, The Black Crowes, John Mayer, Weezer, Fiona Apple, Green Day, The Counting Crows, No Doubt,...

    .
  • Mixed by Jack Joseph Puig, Assisted by Eddie Keaggy, Dave Hackbarth, KC McMackin, Bart Stevens and Wade Jaynes.
  • Additional engineers: Brian Tankersley and Mark Heard
    Mark Heard
    John Mark Heard was a record producer, folk-rock singer, and songwriter originally from Macon, Georgia, USA....

    .
  • Photography by Ben Pearson.
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