Friday, 1 August 2025

Petra - Petra (1974)

Year: 1974 (CD Apr 28, 1992)
Label: Word Incorporated (US), EK 48802
Style: Christian Rock, Southern Rock, Hard Rock
Country: Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.
Time: 34:02
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 212 Mb

In the early 1970s, songwriter and guitarist Bob Hartman met bassist John DeGroff and formed the band Dove, which he quickly disbanded when DeGroff left to attend a Bible school in Fort Wayne, Indiana, known as the Christian Training Center. Hartman soon followed, and in 1972 he and DeGroff joined two classmates, guitarist Greg Hough and drummer Bill Glover, to form Petra. The band played small Midwest venues such as churches, coffeehouses and parks, to share the message of Christianity with concertgoers. Glover said on an interview "we weren't picky and we wanted to get God's Word out to our peers. We would set up in parking lots, parks, college campuses, coffee houses, etc." A frequent venue was a Fort Wayne Christian-themed coffeehouse named The Adam's Apple.
This mix of evangelism with rock placed Petra among the early pioneers of Jesus Music, part of the larger counterculture Jesus Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Church authorities struggled with and frequently opposed the use of churches for rock concerts, and few Christian radio stations, with the exception of some college-based signals, would play the band's songs. Petra was criticized for its rock sound, a hint of the opposition it would experience as its popularity grew.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra_(band))

Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
A=Analog. D=digital. The first letter stands for how the music was recorded. The second letter for how it was mixed. The third letter stands for the format (all CD's will have D as the last letter).

01. Wake Up (03:40)
02. Get Back To The Bible (02:22)
03. Gonna Fly Away (04:55)
04. Storm Comin' (04:30)
05. Parting Thought (01:31)
06. Walkin' In The Light (03:16)
07. Mountains And Valleys (02:48)
08. Lucas Mcgraw (03:23)
09. Backslidin' Blues (04:30)
10. I'm Not Ashamed (03:01)

UploadyIo     KatFile

All my files:   UploadyIo     KatFile

No comments:

Post a Comment