Released 1974 Music to Raise the Dead
(1974) All Your Life
(1974) Release date 1974 | Label Independent Artist Resurrection Band Producer Resurrection Band | |
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Recorded Gary Rotta's basement, Chicago, Illinois, 1974 Genres Christian rock, Jesus music Similar Resurrection Band albums, Christian rock albums | ||
Resurrection band music to raise the dead full album
Music to Raise the Dead is the first independent cassette from American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1974. Although technically the band's first release, the album Awaiting Your Reply four years later is considered by most to be the band's official debut.
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Recording history
The cassette, featuring the kind of hard rock for which Resurrection Band would eventually become known, was recorded not long after the Jesus People USA community had moved from Minneapolis to Chicago, but before they found a permanent home in Uptown. The record was created in the basement of friend Gary Rotta entirely on headphones, so as not to wake Rotta's wife, who was asleep when the band recorded. However, the mixing board had been used many years previously to record one of Elvis Presley's number-one hits.
The tape was recorded in the same period than All Your Life, both of which were given away at their concerts. All your life was an independent set of acoustic numbers, a reflection of folk-oriented sets that were played at conservative venues, like nursing homes and churches, whose audiences would otherwise be unreceptive to the borderline heavy metal that Resurrection Band otherwise played and which were contained in the rock set Music To Raise the Dead. The cassette was re-released in a limited number of copies by the band's own label, Grrr Records, in 1992. It is considered a collector's item and is extremely hard to find.
The song "Quite Enough" was re-recorded in a live version on the 1984 album Live Bootleg.
Band members
Production
Songs
1Down Baby6:17
2I Can't Help Myself4:17
3Crimson River6:04