Crimson and Blue is the title of a 1993 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 Myrrh Records

Myrrh Records

Myrrh Records, also known as Myrrh Worship, is a Christian music record label. According to Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music, the label was instrumental in developing a popular following for Contemporary Christian music as the label that first published music by Barry McGuire, 2nd Chapter of...

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Crimson and Blue found Phil Keaggy surrounded by old friends making new music, in an old Victorian cottage owned by Brown Bannister. The Dugout (now Vibe56) was in the middle of Music Row. Its high ceilings, hardwood floors, and vintage equipment made it a perfect place to record a rock record.

Producer/guitarist Lynn Nichols and organist Phil Madiera had been Keaggy's bandmates in the Phil Keaggy Band in the '70s. Drummer John Sferra was Keaggy's oldest friend, and partner in the band Glass Harp. Bassist Wade Jaynes was Nichols' bandmate from Chagall Guevara.

Track listing

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

1. "Shouts of Joy" (Music by Keaggy, Words by Ray Repp) – 5:54
2. "World of Mine" – 5:38
3. "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....
   
   ) – 4:26
4. "Love Divine" – 2:23
5. "Reunion of Friends" – 4:11
6. "All There is to Know" (Keaggy/Madeira) – 3:47
7. "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...
   
   ) – 6:40
8. "Stone Eyes" (Keaggy/Nichols/Madeira) – 7:01
9. "I Will Be There" – 6:51
10. "Don't Pass Me By" (Keaggy/Nichols) – 3:44
11. "John the Revelator" (Traditional) – 8:04
12. "Doin' Nothin'" – 8:25
13. "Nothing But the Blood" (Traditional) – 2:44

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.

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