Name: All God’s Children: Songs From The British Jesus Rock Revolution 1967-1974
Brand: Various

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CRSEGBOX136

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-09-22

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Cherry Red (ADA)

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Standard:20

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5013929193604

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CDx3

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Various

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Classic

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Grapefruit

Grapefruit is a UK-based music label that specializes in psych/garage-era music from the 1966-70 timeframe. Managed by Cherry Red, Grapefruit focuses on releasing single-artist career anthologies and definitive versions of rare and classic albums. Each release features sympathetic artwork, rare photos, detailed liner notes, and high-quality sound from the original masters.

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First-ever overview of the UK element of the late 60s/early 70s “Jesus movement”. Incorporates the scene’s gospel beat beginnings, the hippie-era Christian rock / folk groups and the movement’s influence on mainstream secular bands.

During the late 60s and early 70s, the restless, questing nature of the Woodstock generation and the horrors of Vietnam saw the pop scene add a new spiritual element.&nbsp;Many young people embraced Christianity, viewing Jesus as the prototypal long-haired hippie, persecuted by the establishment of the day while dispensing peace and love to a troubled, cynical world.

The American branch of the Jesus movement effectively started in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, but there was also a parallel development in the UK that slowly evolved from beat groups performing in church coffee-bars.

By 1971, leading British Xian rock band Out Of Darkness were appearing at notorious countercultural gathering Phun City, while Glastonbury introduced a “Jesus tent” that offered Christian revellers mass and holy communion twice a day.

All God’s Children assembles the best of the British Christian acts, including such respected names as Out Of Darkness (and their earlier incarnation, garage R&amp;B act The Pilgrims), Parchment, Whispers Of Truth and Judy MacKenzie.

It also features the secular alongside the sacred, including the likes of Strawbs, Moody Blues, Amazing Blondel, John Kongos and Medicine Head – bands who, though theologically shyer than their more overtly Christian contemporaries, all wrote songs with a strong spiritual message.

A 3CD, four-hour set, All God’s Children – which takes its name from the gorgeous Kinks’ ballad, naturally included herein – is a fascinating look at an under-documented phenomenon and unexpected by-product of the hippie era.

1 PRELUDE (incorporating HE IS MY GOD) – Salamander

3 JESUS IS JUST ALRIGHT – Bourbon Street Mission

14 PRAYER – Manfred Mann’s Earth Band

17 JESUS WAS A CROSS MAKER – The Hollies

1 THE MAN WHO CALLED HIMSELF JESUS – Strawbs

3 JESUS WAS A CARPENTER – The Johnstons

4 JOB’S TEARS – The Incredible String Band

5 SAFETY IN GOD ALONE – Amazing Blondel

7 JESUS IS COMING AGAIN – All Things New

13 MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE AND JOHN – Fairport Convention

14 TIME OF THE LAST PERSECUTION – Bill Fay

17 FIRST TIME I WENT TO CHURCH – Nigel Goodwin

1 WOODSTOCK – Matthews Southern Comfort

4 I MUST SEE JESUS FOR MYSELF – Help Yourself

13 HALLELUJAH SANG THE PEOPLE – Bruce Spelman

15 CHILD OF JESUS – Phillip Goodhand-Tait

21 WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN – Pentangle