This discography will include information on Jesus Music
era artists and their music. Our database will take awhile to build and
will be ongoing.
At the moment, there are no links to this database but it still may show up in a search.
Thanks...JMO
Our Mission
We
have kept a paper discography of Jesus Music / CCM albums starting back
in the early 70s. We amassed a private collection of over 1000 CCM
albums and hundreds of CDs over the years. It has always been our goal
to publish an as-comprehensive-as-possible database on the music of the
Jesus Music era. Since our online radio station had to go dark because
of a lack of funding, this has now become our goal to populate this
database. After being a contributor of Jesus Music information to
Wikipedia.org, One-Way.org, ChristianMusicArchive.com, Discogs.com,
Dmoz.org, MusicMoz.org and other online sites for many years, we only
began this work here recently because of the discovery of the
free Blogger website. Now, as time allows, the information that is on
our paper database will be transferred to our website. We will also
include links to music available on Amazon.com when such is available.
Our Method
As
we learn the Blogger software, our first goal is to enter in all of
the raw data that we have. This will be basically just a group or
artist's name, a short bio line, album titles and date of issue, and
links to websites connected to that entry. At a later date, artist
pictures and album jacket photos will be added as well as other
information. We will strive to be as comprehensive as possible but that
will take time. When CDs and legal digital downloads are available, we will
provide links to those pages too as a courtesy.
Our Criteria
The
artists we will list or consider listing here must have released an
album prior to Jan. 1, 1980. According to many historians, the Jesus
Music era technically ended in 1977 with the release of the first coined
CCM album by Amy Grant. CCM Magazine began publication in 1978 and it's
been CCM ever since. But most websites for Jesus Music continue on
through the end of 1979 and some go even past. For now, we will include
all album releases up through 1979 that are considered Jesus Music, CCM,
Contemporary Gospel, etc. We will also continue to list later releases
for those artists who began in the 60s and 70s to let listeners know
that if you liked their earlier music, you can continue to follow the
artist's musical journey up until their last album release.
Amazon.com
Why
Amazon.com? The most asked question we get at JMO is, "Where can I get
this music?" We are an affiliate partner of Amazon.com. When you click
one of the Amazon links, it will take you to their page on that artist
or that particular album where you can find CDs, digital downloads, and
even some vinyl copies of that album for sale. We are not associated
with the sellers in any way but provide the links strictly as a
courtesy. Also, when you click our links to Amazon, they give us
back a small referral fee. You pay exactly the same as you would going
through their front door but that referral helps us pay for hosting and
server costs to keep this website online free of charge as a public
service to all fans of the music of the Jesus Movement era. Thanks for
your support!
One Last Thought
Some
may ask, "Do we really need another Christian music database online?"
The answer is, "Probably not." But it's something we've been doing for
over 40 years and had not been able to easily do until Blogger
site became available and then discovered by us. And no one online
website seems to have all of the data gathered in one spot. So we'll try
to do that (as we've done on paper for over four decades) and hopefully
can add things that are missing too. We hope you'll enjoy your time
here!
Table Of Contents
Disclaimer
All
information gathered here has come from multiple sources. Our main
source is the album jackets themselves as well as from official websites
of those groups that still have one. We also draw information from fan
sites as well as existing archive sites. Some of our data comes from
Wikipedia.org through the Creative Commons license that site operates
under. Please check out our sources below and support those sites as
well. All copyrighted material has been rewritten in compliance with the
law.
Sources
On The Web:Wikipedia.org
One-way.org
Christianmusicarchive.com
Discogs.com
Amazon.com
Bsnpubs.com
TheAncientStar-song.com (currently offline)
Psychedelic-Rocknroll.Blogspot.com
In Book Form:
Encyclopedia Of Contemporary Christian Music ~ Mark Allan Powell
Archivist ~ Ken Scott
Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music? ~ Paul Baker
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