Memento Mori: Remembering Chuck Girard
Chuck Girard, one of the architects of Jesus Music and founder of the band Love Song, recently passed away at the age of 81 after a battle with cancer. On this special episode of the podcast, we visit with fellow Jesus Music veteran, Alex MacDougall, who recently survived a very close call with esophageal cancer, and our own Bruce Brown, who is in the midst of chemo as he edits this very episode. We also hear from Terry Scott Taylor via a special clip from the upcoming documentary “Us Kids” about the role Chuck and Love Song played in his own musical story.
Might there be some wisdom in the ancient Christian practice of “memento mori” in times such as these? Did Chuck Girard leave us a song for this very moment fifty years ago?
For more information, including a list of all of the amazing (and in some cases extremely rare) music used in this episode, visit the show notes page at TrueTunes.com/Girard.
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MUSIC LIST:
Love Song:
A Love Song (Debut LP version)
Little Country Church (Debut LP version)
Let Us Be One (Live at Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa)
Think About What Jesus Said (The Living Room Tape)
Changes (The Valley Recorder Demos)
Brand New Lover (The Living Room Tapes)
Take No Chances (The Valley Recorder Demos)
Little Country Church – The Everlastin’ Living Jesus Music Concert version)
Sometimes Alleluia (Feel The Love / Live)
Psalm 5 (Feel The Love / Live)
Short Alleluia (Final Touch)
Chuck Girard:
Rock ’n’ Roll Preacher (Chuck Girard)
Slow Down (Chuck Girard)
Quiet Hour (Chuck Girard)
Everybody Knows For Sure (Chuck Girard)
Lay Your Burden Down (Chuck Girard)
Anthem (Glow In The Dark)
Endless Summer Pt. 2 (ft. Paul Johnson) (Surfonic Water Revival)
The Way:
Son Come Out
You’re Caught In a World
Do You Feel The Change?
Terry S. Taylor:
I Ain’t Gonna Fight It (Demo)
As background:
The Castells – Sacred
Grateful Dead – Turn On Your Love Light (Live / Dead)
Phil Keaggy – Rhapsody for George (Acoustic Sketches Vol. 3)
The Choir of Wells Cathedral, Somerset (Dir. Matthew Owens) – The Lord is My Shepherd (Psalm 23) (Setting by Howard Goodall)
Clouds Echo In Blue – This Is How I Feel
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