Blueprint
198? Red Sky Music
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Side 1:
- Rev Houston – Celestial Rock
- Rev Houston – The Power and the Preacher
- Rev Houston – My Love and I
- Kenny Spence – Running Song
- Kenny Spence – India
- Kenny Spence – Prodigal One
Side 2:
- McCurry Co – My Redeemer
- McCurry Co – The Way
- McCurry Co – Life is a Symphony
- Iva Twydell – The Warning
- Iva Twydell – I Surrender
- Iva Twydell – The Dance Has Just Begun
- Pearson – I Want to go to Heaven
- Pearson – Angel
- Pearson – We Need a Lot More of Jesus (and a Lot Less Rock ‘n’ Roll)
This is a compilation of songs from albums by the artists featured. I mainly decided to digitize it based on the fact that it had some of the solo songs from Iva Twydell (After the Fire fame). I had also heard the Rev Houston songs before as well (you can find it poking around online) but wanted to hear the others as well. Rev Houston’s 1985 album The Power and the Preacher is a mixture of alt rock, new wave, and rock – even though the three songs chosen for this comp are more of the rock vein. Kenny Spence has put his full album Class of 84 up on SoundCloud, His album has a bit more of a rock edge that almost borders on hard rock at times than the songs on this tape. McCurry Co is a keyboard-driven pop band, but the songs here don’t really have any new age to them. Like the others, their full-length album Pleased to Meet You might be different. Iva Twydell’s songs come from Duel (1982) and Secret Service (1981). Twydell is also a bit more alternative/progressive than the three songs present here. Pearson’s songs all come from his Brighten album. Can’t find that album, but the songs present here are more avant-garde and experimental than the other artists here. No date is given for this compilation, but the Rev Houston album was released in 1985, so probably not much later than that.
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