Archivist is a guidebook to obscure and classic albums of the Jesus movement specifically written with the collector in mind. It is a 370-page reference work that contains paragraph reviews and descriptions of approximately 3,200 Jesus music albums that were made from 1965 through 1980. The 4th edition includes over 800 new write-ups, numerous re-written/expanded reviews, plus all the text from the first three editions. In addition to the main section covering albums, there are also smaller sections on “incredibly strange” albums, CDs of previously unreleased music and 7” singles/EPs. Sample styles covered include folk, rock, beat, blues rock, Catholic folk, country rock, funk/r&b/jazz, hard rock, progressive, punk, psychedelic and sunshine pop. From well-known Jesus music artists to favorites of psych collectors to numerous unknown local groups to obscure records from UK, Canada, Australia, Germany and other countries.
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By James Wood
Apr 5, 2011
This is an incredible book! The amount of work, time, research and devotion that went into it strikes me speechless. It's not complete (I know of some things missing) but a work like this can never be complete as new things are always being discovered from the era. Suffice to say, however, that this is the most detailed and complete work of this nature in existence, which is really saying a lot. It's a staggering effort - and a very entertaining one. Mr. Scott is a good writer as well as a researcher/collector, and publishing it through Lulu is a good way of getting it out at a very reasonable cost. Truly a wonderful book!
"A Fabulous Book" This is a great book, the necessary reference for the music of the era. I do a detailed review of this here, but this is a book you don't want to be without it if you are looking to acquire this music in any way.
