Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Wednesday, April 06, 2011

I just got


a book I ordered from Lulu.com a few days ago. It just came yesterday. Very fast service, indeed! Better than Amazon. Anyway, the book is called

Archivist - 4th Edition.

From the website:

"Archivist is a guidebook to obscure and classic albums of the Jesus movement specifically written with the collector in mind. It is a 370-page reference work that contains paragraph reviews and descriptions of approximately 3,200 Jesus music albums that were made from 1965 through 1980. The 4th edition includes over 800 new write-ups, numerous re-written/expanded reviews, plus all the text from the first three editions. In addition to the main section covering albums, there are also smaller sections on “incredibly strange” albums, CDs of previously unreleased music and 7” singles/EPs. Sample styles covered include folk, rock, beat, blues rock, Catholic folk, country rock, funk/r&b/jazz, hard rock, progressive, punk, psychedelic and sunshine pop. From well-known Jesus music artists to favorites of psych collectors to numerous unknown local groups to obscure records from UK, Canada, Australia, Germany and other countries. "
As I have had an interest in this wide genre of music since about the time this tome covers, I was really pleased to find that someone had written this. It is obviously a labour of love, Ken Scott's own personal area of interest and research. It's wonderful that a publishing site like this can allow an author to get their work out to the world in an affordable manner...


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