Monday, April 18, 2016

Foley & Kavanaugh - Ways To Get Through (1973)




Known more for being the mastermind behind the group St. Louis Jesuits, John Foley and fellow member John Kavanaugh have a crafted a beautiful double album of moody folk music unequaled in the Christian market.  While Foley’s other projects have been more praise-oriented, here the approach is not so much Jesus music (though the Savior’s name appears 2 or 3 times), but rather observations about life, people, and relationships written from a Christian perspective.  Most of the album is just an acoustic guitar and the two singers as on ‘Peas, Carrots, & Cabbages’, a 13-minute parable expanding on the lilies-of-the-field principles in Matthew 6.  A couple of the songs on the second disk get some heavy electric fuzz guitar.  Both gents share in the songwriting which leans toward the poetic – call it thinking-man’s folk.     (The Archivist, 4th edition by Ken Scott).

Foley and Kavanaugh - The Colors You Bring (1973)


Enjoy



4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is also very nice, again thanks for sharing these nice gems.

wcpaeb said...

Thanks for sharing this rare Xian folk double LP.

wcpaeb said...

Unfortunately track 20 The Summer Will Rise is missing.

Anonymous said...

THANK YOU FOR THIS LOVELY ALBUM
IS TO POSSIBLE TO DO TRACK 20, THE SUMMER WILL RISE

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