Reception

White Horse is the title of the first solo album by Michael Omartian

Michael Omartian

Michael Omartian is an Armenian-American singer-songwriter, keyboardist, and music producer. He has been a participant in over 350,000,000 albums and CD’s sold worldwide, as a producer, arranger, artist or musician, during a career that has spanned over 38 years...

, released originally in 1974, on Dunhill Records

Dunhill Records

Dunhill Records was started by Lou Adler, Al Bennett, Pierre Cossette and Bobby Roberts in 1964 as Dunhill Productions, originally for the purpose of releasing Johnny Rivers recordings on Imperial Records. It became a record label in 1965 and was distributed by ABC Records...

 and subsequently re-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...

 as both a single album and as a compilation of White Horse and Adam Again

Adam Again (album)

Adam Again is the second solo album by Michael Omartian, released originally in 1976, on Myrrh Records as both the original single album and as a compilation of White Horse and Adam Again...

. (Both are now out-of-print.) Integrating elements of funk, gospel, and progressive rock (and utilizing the talents of some of the finest studio musicians and back-up singers of the time), White Horse is considered by some critics of contemporary Christian rock music, including Marty Phillips of Jesus Rock Legends (jrocklegends.wordpress.com), to be one of the most influential and revered albums of the genre.

In his Allmusic review, Mark W.B. Allender wrote, "... this record cooks from beginning to end. Christian Contemporary Music has never been so hip. CCM in general has a reputation for being watered down and unemotional, but this record squeaked through without any dilution at all... this record is his masterpiece."

Side one

1. "Jeremiah" – 4:37
2. "Fat City" – 3:09
3. "Orphan” – 2:01
4. "Silver Fish" – 2:34
5. "Add Up The Wonders” – 5:19

Side two

1. "Take Me Down" – 3:39
2. "Right From The Start” – 2:30
3. "Rest Is Up To You" – 2:47
4. "White Horse" – 7:06

Personnel

• Larry Carlton
  Larry Carlton
  Larry Carlton is an American jazz, smooth jazz, jazz fusion, pop, and rock guitarist and singer. He has divided his recording time between solo recordings and session appearances with various well-known bands...
  
   – bass, guitar
• David Hungate
  David Hungate
  David Hungate is a bass player noted as a member of Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1977-1982. Boz Scaggs's Silk Degrees album of 1976 included Hungate and several other future members of Toto...
  
   – bass
• Pat Henderson – background vocals
• Sid Sharp – strings
• Jesse Ehrlich – cello
• Don Menza – saxophone
• Jackie Kelso – saxophone
• David Kemper – drums
• Paul Hubinson – horn, trumpet
• Ed Greene
  Ed Greene (musician)
  Ed Greene is an American drummer and session musician.An early recording in 1971 has him as a member of the Donald Byrd Group, together with Thurman Green Harold Land Bobby Hutcherson Joe Sample and Wilton Felder , among others....
  
   – drums
• King Errisson – conga, percussion
• Michael Omartian – arranger, producer, vocals, percussion, keyboards
• Stormie Omartian – vocals/background vocals
• Dean Parks
  Dean Parks
  Dean Parks is an American session guitarist and record producer from Ft. Worth, TX.-Albums:Dean was member of The North Texas State One O'clock Lab Band before moving to Los Angeles to work with Sonny and Cher in 1970. Dean is best-known through his many contributions to albums by Steely Dan...
  
   – flute, guitar
• Patricia Henderson – background vocals
• Carolyn Willis – background vocals
• Alan Estes – drumbeg
• Wilton Felder
  Wilton Felder
  Wilton Lewis Felder is both a saxophone and bass player, and is best known as a founding member of The Crusaders, initially called the Jazz Crusaders. Felder, Wayne Henderson, Joe Sample, and Stix Hooper founded the group while in high school in Houston...
  
  – bass
• Ann White – background vocals

Production notes

• Produced by Michael Omartian
• Engineered by Michael Lietz, John Guess, Tommy Vicon