Phil Keaggy Fans? What's Your Top Ten Keaggy Songs?

Do we have some Phil Keaggy aficionados here?

What do you think are the 10 best Phil Keaggy Songs?


Here's my list:

1 Days Like You
2 Rockman
3 Love Divine
4 A Sign Came Through A Window
5 Don't Pass Me By
6 Everywhere I Look
7 Final Day
8 This Side of Heaven
9 Tell Me How You Feel
10 Son of Man
11 Love Is Not The Only Thing
12 Under The Grace
13 Tender Love


Days Like You

Here is one of mine:

Sounds sweet! I've never heard that song before. Which obviously tells you I'm not fully familiar with all of his earlier work. It's a sweet song and I really like the sound in those solos. I wonder if those solos are memorized and always the same, or if he improvised those in this live performance?

At first listen this melody and the solos don't really stick in my head; an experience I found with listening to some of his earlier work. Whereas listening to his vocal albums from Find Me in These Fields onward, those melodies seem to stick with me. A good portion of those songs are more Beatlesque, many not, but my impression is the melodies are catchier. That may make them less relistenable in a way, having less complexity. Thoughts on that?

I think my fav from his older work is Can You See Me? (Glass Harp). I like his psychedelia too, of course.

I'm also not a big fan of his instrumental work. I enjoyed his two bluesy instrumental albums, but I rarely listen to them. It's interesting, Phil has said in some interviews that his instrumentals are pure worship songs. I understand the concept, I've certainly been moved emotionally by (capital R) Romantic music, as with a ton of Tchaikovsky's music, but I can't say I've experienced any spiritual worship listening to his instrumental pieces (wish I did!). But I've no doubt people are different. Obviously, I'm a fan of his 'vocal' songs, and I wish he'd do many, many more.

Always love to see him live, and love his live looping fun. Here's one of my favs of that:

Folks who might like to get familiar with a fantastic Christian artist,
I'll post an excellent Phil Keaggy song from time to time.

Here's a fun funky song called Rockman.
Randy Stonehill is singing the vocals.
Has a great Keaggy guitar solo.


This song may, or may not, really have Christian lyrics, the only one like that on my list, unless Jesus is the Rockman. lol

(no other Phil Keaggy fans here?)

Phil Keaggy song of the week.

This very poppy bouncy "early 60's sounding" praise song:

Phil Keaggy song of the week:

"A Sign Came Through a Window"
Very driving song about the confidence we have with Jesus.

Love this song too, Dave! Such a beautiful song. Phil singing with the voice of God telling us He's here.

In my radio show I played a comedic clip from Tig Notaro's famous Cancer routine where she jokes the horrifying heretical "christian phrase" that "God will never give you more than you can handle"... indicating God gives you cancer and other "stones", and she goes on to joke that God is telling His objecting angels, "No, no... I think she can take a little more" and then Tig says, "God must be crazy, if he's even there at all..." where I kick in the vocals for I Will Be There (with the intro playing in the background to that run up).

That's true I have been through many things myself you think it will stop, but they keep coming, the song is true without a doubt he has been there for me every time

And yeah Phil is good and anointed

So Dave, what would be your current Top 10 Phil Keaggy songs?

1. I will be there 2. True believers 3. Getting closer 4. Love broke thru 5. Cherish the moment 6. Time 7. John the revelatory 8. What a day 9. Think about it 10. Find me in these fields