Bill Glennen – The Soul Question

Bill Glennen
The Soul Question
1993 (no label)
Salina, Kansas, USA

Bill Glennen – Vocals, everything except:

Ted Cramer – 1st guitar lead on “Unfavored Grace”
Christina Glennen – Voice sample on “I Need You Now”
Doug Johnson – Lead guitar and drums on “I Need You Now”
Jesse Seigand – 2nd lead guitar and classical guitar on “Unfavored grace,” country lead guitar on “There’s a Time”
Chauncey Walker – Guest rapper on “Praise”

Side 1:

1. Love Can Do
2. Strange World
3. Proverbs 31 Woman/Ephesians 5 Man
4. The Soul Question
5. There’s a Time

Side 2:

1. I Need You Now
2. Risen One
3. Praise
4. Unfavored Grace
5. When We Say I Do

Based on the name of the album and the album cover, you would expect this to either be an attempt at soul music or hard rock. But those appear just to be used for the cover, because this is a rock record. The first song starts off as a pop rock mid-paced number with some power pop influences. It almost reminds me of The Stand. The second song cranks up the guitars with some almost-hard rock distortion. The rest of the songs kind of move back and forth between ballads, rockers, and a few rockers with some crunchy guitars. One song even has a breakdown with some rap. But it never really gets to the point of being hard rock, so I would put this as a rock record. Not sure if he made more albums or not, though.