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Only Visiting This Planet (The Compleat Trilogy)

Larry has been working on The Compleat Trilogy for three years. It was supposed to be released on vinyl in 1978 but Word Records blocked it. This is a brand new e.q. and mastering of this 1972 album. And we have released six bonus tracks in total. Two of them have never been heard before.

1. I've Got To Learn To Live Without You
2. The Outlaw
3. Why Don't You Look Into Jesus
4. Righteous Rocker #1
5. I Wish We'd All Been Ready
6. I Am The Six O'Clock News
7. The Great American Novel
8. Pardon Me
9. Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music
10. Reader's Digest

BONUS TRACKS
11. Peacepollutionrevolution (Radio Single)
12. Righteous Rocker (Hard Rock Version)
13. The Outlaw (Roots Remake)
14. Reader's Digest (Roots Rock Remake)
15. Righteous Rocker (Unreleased Version)
16. The Great American Novel (Unreleased Version)

SRD-005...$16.98

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So Long Ago The Garden- Part Two Of The Triology

So Long Ago The Garden" has been rebalanced, re-equalized and remastered. The cover artwork has been re-scanned and the back cover is a slightly different version from the "snakeskin boots" photo used before. At the time of its release, it caused quite a stir in the gospel community. They said that Larry was naked and that this was proof he had fallen away from God. Also, there was a lightning bolt through his name, and, after all, lightning was a sign of Satan and of devil worshippers, wasn't it??? Well everybody knows it's true. Everytime there's a thunderstorm and you see lightning, well, that's not a display of God's power through nature...it's the devil. So run and hide and cry out, "The sky is falling," "The sky is falling."

He was mercilessly attacked in the Christian press, his concerts were cancelled and he didn't get a single concert until a year and half later when Noel Paul Stookey invited him to perform in concert as his opening act. During his absence from the stage he worked on plans to start Solid Rock Records and produce other artists who also had "no commercial value." Some of the people he felt led to help were on drugs so he spent time helping them with their personal life and bringing them to a converted lifestyle. In the end, Keith Green and Larry could not work together so Larry let him go. Randy became the next artist in line and Larry produced a top rate album for him.

During this time, Larry had also started a Bible Study in his living room. It had no name and was only for musicians and actors. But after six months, "The Vineyard" was chosen as a name and although there was plenty of proof that Larry had NOT walked away from God, he kept on experiencing "blackballing" by the Christians. Bible bookstores refused to carry most of his albums if not all of them, especially in the South and Midwest.

If Garden caused him a lot of trouble with the Christians, it also brought him a lot of respect and acceptance from less judgmental people. U2 was in the process of starting a band, Dylan heard both Planet and Garden and coincidentally started going to The Vineyard for morning Bible study. And Tower Records couldn't keep either album in stock. It received rave critical reviews from the secular press...all the more proof to Christians that Larry was doing the work of Satan.

The tracks on this CD pressing have all been taken from the original tapes, not the "second generation" dubs which were used to strike the matrices. This contains three single versions because they sounded better than the versions released before. Also, an amusing alternate vocal version is included as a bonus track. Stonehill had dropped by the studio and Larry did a spontaneous duet with him. At the end of the song he jokingly sings "If this song don't become a hit, I believe it's time for me to quit." Actually the song was never considered for a single. Larry was considered an FM album artist, not a Top 40 commercial artist. Still, when the album was finished, the record label was so excited about the results, that they did release a few singles.

Thirty years after its initial release, the album makes a lot more "sense", seems more timely than ever, and "Nightmare #71" is even more electrifying in the light of the turbulence in the middle east.

This is one of Larry's greatest albums. Turn it up...LOUD.

1. Fly Fly Fly (B-Side Single)
2. The Same Old Story (Single Version)
3. Lonely By Myself
4. Be Careful What You Sign
5. Baroquen Spirits (Single Version)
6. Christmastime
7. She's A Dancer
8. Soul Survivor
9. Nightmare #71

BONUS TRACKS
10. Up In Canada (1973 Single)
11. Soul Survivor (alternate version, never released)
 
SRD-006...$16.98

In Another Land - The 30th Ann. Edition

"In Another Land" is honest, raw and humble. Larry Norman, with this album, showed he was a force to be reckoned with in Christian music. 1972's "Only Visiting the Planet" had already taken root and shook the hallowed doors of CCM. "In Another Land" took it farther, producing the seminal inspiration of musicians who happened to be Christian for over 30 years. Now, as his songs are remade by everyone from DC Talk to Grammatrain to Steve Camp, it is worth looking at the originals.

1. The Rock That Doesn't Roll
2. I Love You
3. U.F.O.
4. I've Searched All Around The World
5. Rightous Rocker #3
6. If God Is My Father
7. Look Into Jesus
8. I Am A Servant
9. The Sun Began To Shine
10. Shot Down
11. Six Sixty Six
12. Diamonds
13. One Way
14. Song For A Small Circle Of Friends
15. Hymn For The Last Generation

Bonus Tracks
16. Looking For The Footprints
17. Dreams On A Grey Afternoon
18. Six Sixty Six -Alternate Version
19. Strong Love, Strange Peace
20. Dear Malcolm, Dear Alwyn
21. Joyful Delta Day
22. I Don't Believe In Miracles
-With Musical Guest: Dudley Moore

SRD-007...$16.98

Upon This Rock

When Upon This Rock was first released in 1969 it didn't fit into any genre of commercial music. There had never been an album like it, and no one knew what to do with it or quite what to make of it. Its vinyl grooves contained the Christian message presented with modern modalities in a rock and roll syntax, which had never been done before, and it came as a shock to conservative Gospel Music fans. But it struck a chord with a small handful of people whose numbers swelled in the following years.

Other Christian Rock artists and groups sprang up, inspired and encouraged by Larry's vision, and over time a nascent Christian "Music Industry" ballooned into the multi-million dollar genre it is today, thanks in no small part to the clarion call contained in the songs on this, the first Christian Rock record.

Solid Rock Records is proud to present to you, Upon This Rock.

1. You Can't Take Away The Lord
2. I Don't Believe In Miracles
3. Moses In The Wilderness
4. Walking Backwards Down The Stairs
5. Ha Ha World
6. Sweet Sweet Song Of Salvation
7. Forget Your Hexagram
8. The Last Supper
9. I Wish We'd All Been Ready
10. Nothing Really Changes
11. Postlude

BONUS TRACKS
12. You Can't Take Away The Lord (Demo)
13. Sweet Song Of Salvation (Live)
14. Nothing Really Changes (Demo)

SRDX-001...$16.98