Blue is the title of a 1994 album by guitarist Phil Keaggy

Phil Keaggy

Phil Keaggy is an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist who has released more than 50 albums and contributed to many more recordings in both the contemporary Christian music and mainstream markets...

, released on Epic Records

Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...

. Blue was released in the mainstream market simultaneously with Keaggy's album, Crimson and Blue

Crimson and Blue

Crimson and Blue is the title of a 1993 album by guitarist Phil Keaggy, released on Myrrh Records.Crimson and Blue found Phil Keaggy surrounded by old friends making new music, in an old Victorian cottage owned by Brown Bannister. The Dugout was in the middle of Music Row...

, which was geared to the Christian market. The most significant differences are the inclusion of three different songs (Keaggy's cover of the Badfinger

Badfinger

Badfinger were a British rock band consisting originally of Pete Ham, Ron Griffiths, Mike Gibbins and Tom Evans, active from 1968 to 1983, and evolving from The Iveys, formed by Ham, Griffiths and David "Dai" Jenkins in Swansea, Wales, in the early 1960s. Joey Molland joined the group in 1969,...

 song, "Baby Blue"; "All Our Wishes"; and "The Further Adventures of..." from the Revelator

Revelator (album)

Revelator is the title of a 1993 EP by guitarist Phil Keaggy, released as a "sneak peek" at his next full-length album, Crimson and Blue.-Track listing:All songs were written by Phil Keaggy, unless otherwise noted....

EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

) and the exclusion of five songs from Crimson and Blue ("Love Divine," "Reunion Of Friends," "Stone Eyes," "I Will Be There," and "Nothing But The Blood.") In addition, several of the tracks on Blue are reworked.

Track listing

All songs were written by Phil Keaggy, unless otherwise noted.

1. "Doin' Nothin'" – 7:35 (Significantly shorter than the Crimson and Blue version)
2. "Don't Pass Me By" (Keaggy/Nichols) – 3:47
3. "Baby Blue" (Pete Ham) – 5:37
4. "All There Is To Know" (Keaggy/Madeira) – 3:49
5. "John the Revelator" (Traditional) – 8:02
6. "World of Mine" – 4:30 (Significantly shorter than the Crimson and Blue version)
7. "Everywhere I Look" (Phil Madeira
   Phil Madeira
   Phil Madeira is an American songwriter, producer, musician and singer from Nashville, Tennessee. He was raised in Barrington, Rhode Island and attended Taylor University, which he graduated from in 1975....
   
   ) – 3:53 (Shorter than the Crimson and Blue version)
8. "The Further Adventures Of..." (Jam with Glass Harp
   Glass Harp
   Glass Harp is a Youngstown, Ohio based power trio consisting of guitarist Phil Keaggy, drummer John Sferra and bassist Daniel Pecchio.-Early years:...
   
   's John Sferra
   John Sferra
   John Sferra is a drummer, best known for his work with the band Glass Harp.In addition to being a drummer, John is also a guitarist, songwriter and vocalist, composing and singing lead on several songs for each Glass Harp album...
   
   ) – 12:37
9. "All Our Wishes" – 3:22
10. "When Will I Ever Learn to Live In God" (Van Morrison
    Van Morrison
    Van Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely...
    
    ) – 6:39
11. "Shouts of Joy" (Music by Keaggy, Words by Ray Repp) – 5:54

Personnel

• Phil Keaggy: guitars, lead vocals.
• John Sferra
  John Sferra
  John Sferra is a drummer, best known for his work with the band Glass Harp.In addition to being a drummer, John is also a guitarist, songwriter and vocalist, composing and singing lead on several songs for each Glass Harp album...
  
  : drums.
• Wade Jaynes: bass.
• Phil Madeira
  Phil Madeira
  Phil Madeira is an American songwriter, producer, musician and singer from Nashville, Tennessee. He was raised in Barrington, Rhode Island and attended Taylor University, which he graduated from in 1975....
  
  : Hammond B-3, keyboards, & background vocals.
• Lynn Nichols
  Lynn Nichols
  Lynn Arthur Nichols is an American songwriter, producer, and musician from New York who now resides in Nashville, Tennessee.In 1977, Nichols was a member of the Phil Keaggy Band, with Phil Madeira, Terry Andersen and Dan Cunningham. The band released one album together, entitled Emerging...
  
  : Background vocals and guitar
• Mike Mead
  Mike Mead
  Mike Mead is an American drummer.Mead is primarily known for his work with Phil Keaggy on his late 1980s and early 90s rock and roll records Sunday's Child, Find Me In These Fields and Crimson and Blue; Steve Taylor on I Predict 1990 and Squint; as well as with Randy Stonehill, Rick Cua, and Dave...
  
  : Percussion & Background vocals.
• Ashley Cleveland
  Ashley Cleveland
  Ashley Cleveland is an American singer/songwriter perhaps best known as a background vocalist and Grammy-winning gospel singer. Ashley Cleveland was born in Knoxville, Tennessee...
  
  : Background vocals.
• John Mark Painter
  John Mark Painter
  John Mark Painter is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known for his role, with his wife, singer Fleming McWilliams, in the rock and roll duo, Fleming and John....
  
  : Mellotron & trumpet.
• Jimmy A: Background vocals.
• Bernadette, Alicia and Olivia Keaggy: Background vocals.

Production notes

• Produced by Lynn Nichols
  Lynn Nichols
  Lynn Arthur Nichols is an American songwriter, producer, and musician from New York who now resides in Nashville, Tennessee.In 1977, Nichols was a member of the Phil Keaggy Band, with Phil Madeira, Terry Andersen and Dan Cunningham. The band released one album together, entitled Emerging...
  
  
• Mixed and engineered by Bill Deaton
• Additional engineering by JB
• Recorded at the Dugout, Nashville, Tennessee
  Nashville, Tennessee
  Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
  
   {Summer 92}.
• Photography: Ben Pearson