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Christian rock Christian rock is a form of rock music that features lyrics focusing on matters of Christian faith, often with an emphasis on Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, typically performed by self-proclaimed Christians, Christian individuals. The extent to w ...
album by
Steve Camp Steven J. Camp (born April 13, 1955) is an American contemporary Christian music artist and pastor. In the tradition of Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses, Camp sent out his own 107 theses on Reformation Day (October 31), 1998, calling for a re ...
and was released by
Myrrh Records __NOTOC__ Myrrh Records (also known as Myrrh Worship) was an American Christian music record label. According to ''Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music'', the label was instrumental in developing a popular following for contemporary Christian ...
in 1980.Christian Music Archive
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Track listing

# "The Feeling is Happening" (Morris "Butch" Stewart) - 6:02 # "You Are the Rainbow" (Steve Camp) - 3:12 # "Easy Livin' (Under the Sun)" (Camp) - 3:05 # "Ambassador in Chains" (Camp) - 3:51 # "Start Believin'" (Camp, Stewart, David Isaiah Radford) - 4:46 # "Under His Love" (Camp,
Larry Norman Larry David Norman (April 8, 1947 – February 24, 2008) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, record label owner, and record producer. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of Christian rock music and released more than 100 album ...
) - 3:35 # "Do They Have to Grow Up?" (Paul Libman) - 3:56 # "I'll Always Need You Lord" (Stewart) - 5:47 # "Bobby" (Camp) - 5:19 # "Psalm 131" (Camp) - 2:10 Note: Never released on CD


Production

* Morris "Butch" Stewart – producer * Steve Camp – co-producer * Paul Libman – co-producer * Hank Neuberger – recording, mixing * Phil Bonono – additional engineer * Gary Elgehammer – additional engineer * Tommy Hanson – additional engineer * Glenn Meadows – mastering at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee) * Michael Harris Design – art design, concept * Michael Borum – photography


Personnel

* Steve Camp – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 4–9), arrangements (2-6, 9, 10), acoustic piano (9), guitars (10) * Paul Libman – acoustic piano (1-8), clavinet (1), arrangements (2, 4–7), horn and string arrangements (2-7, 9), acoustic piano solo (4, 5), electric piano (6, 8, 10), backing vocals (7),
Polymoog The Polymoog is a hybrid polyphonic analog synthesizer that was manufactured by Moog Music from 1975 to 1980. The Polymoog was based on divide-down oscillator technology similar to electronic organs and string synthesizers of the time. Histor ...
(9) * Lonnie Reaves – electric piano (1), acoustic piano (8) * Byron Gregory – guitars (1, 3–9) * Beau MacDougall – guitars (1, 8) * Rich Maisel – guitars (1, 3–9) * Joe Godfrey – guitars (2, 7) * Tony Brown – bass (1, 3–9) *
Steve Rodby Steve Rodby (born December 9, 1954 in Joliet, Illinois) is an American jazz bassist and producer known for his time with the Pat Metheny Group. Biography Rodby was born in Joliet, Illinois, into a musical family. His father was a music teacher ...
– bass (2, 7),
string bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar ...
(10) * Wayne Stewart – drums (1, 3–9) * Tom Ratdke – drums (2, 7) * James Hampton – percussion (10) * Ken Soderblom –
English horn The cor anglais (, or original ; plural: ''cors anglais''), or English horn in North America, is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe, making it essentially an alto ...
(3) * Morris "Butch" Stewart – arrangements (1, 5, 8, 9), horn and string arrangements (1, 6, 8), backing vocals (1, 3–9) * Kitty Haywood – backing vocals (1, 4–9) * Ricky Linton – backing vocals (1, 4–9) * Brenda Mitchell – backing vocals (1, 3–9) * Mary Ann Stewart – backing vocals (1, 4–9) * Alfonso Surrett – backing vocals (1, 4–9) * Lilian Tynes – backing vocals (1, 4–9) Horn section * Ken Soderblom – alto saxophone * Jack Baron and Ken Soderblom – tenor saxophone * John Haynor, Art Lisner and
Cy Touff Cyril James Touff (March 4, 1927 in Chicago – January 24, 2003 in Evanston, Illinois) was a jazz bass trumpeter. He was one of the few jazz musicians known as a bass trumpeter. He was also associated with West coast jazz although he spent most o ...
– trombone * Ron Friedman,
Arthur Hoyle Arthur Robert Hoyle (1922 – 2 May 2012) was an Australian historian and biographer. Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, in 1922 to Arthur Hoyle (1896–1971) and Gertrude Underwood (1895–1972), he served in the Royal Air Force as a ...
, Russ Iverson and Bobby Lewis – trumpet * Arthur Hoyle and Bobby Lewis –
flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B, though some ...
*
Dale Clevenger Dale Clevenger (July 2, 1940 – January 5, 2022) was an American musician who was the Principal Horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1966 until his retirement in June, 2013.
and Thomas Howell –
French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...
String section * Philip Blum and Leonard Chausow – cello * Richard Ferrin, Harold D. Klatz and Roger Moulton – viola * Sol Bobrov, Joseph Golan, Samuel Magad, Arnold Roth and Fred Spector – violin


References

1980 albums Steve Camp albums Myrrh Records albums {{Christian-rock-album-stub