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May 6 2013 Mustard Seed Faith - Happy In Jesus - end times news update - 4-12-13 praying for revival like the Jesus movement in the 60's, 70's and 80's. Mustard Seed Faith first appeared in 1973 with two songs on the Maranatha 3 collection: Happy In Jesus and Rest. The following year their song All I Know was included on Maranatha 4. In 1975 Lewis McVay joined the group. Sail On Sailor, their only LP. This same year MSF also recorded Sidney The Pirate for Marantha 5, which was released in 1976. With the popularity of the band's song on the Maranatha samplers, Sail On Sailor was an eagerly anticipated album...and it proved to be worth the wait. It's a mellow mix of soft rock, soft country rock and soft ballads. Very smooth, very palatable, every song a good one. This is why it's such a shame these guys didn't record more music. As it is, just about every song they have recorded eventually gets played on Joy Explosion Radio. The cover of Sail On Sailor has become a classic. It was designed by Rick Griffin, the sixties psychedelic artist who created a number of album covers for secular artists, including The Pirate Grateful Dead, and Jackson Brown. Griffin became a Christian in 1970 and later worked some with Maranatha Music. This cover was named as one of "The Fifty Greatest Album Covers Of All Time" in a coffee table book of the same. Jesus music primarily began in population centers of the United States where the Jesus movement was gaining momentum—Southern California (especially Costa Mesa and Hollywood), San Francisco, Seattle, and Chicago—around 1969--70. Large numbers of hippies and street musicians began converting to born-again Christianity. A number of these conversions, especially in southern California, was due largely to the outreach of Lonnie Frisbee and Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa. In the aftermath of such conversions, these musicians continued playing the same styles of music that they had been playing prior to their conversion, though they now infused their lyrics with a Christian message. Most of these early bands gigged whenever asked, usually for whatever money could be collected at the passing of a hat or basket. This was known as a love offering. Few, if any, made a living from playing in the years 1970--73, nor did they expect to. Most viewed their music as a means of sharing their newfound faith and encouraging listeners to commit their lives to Jesus, no matter the sacrifice. Of the many bands and artists that came out of this time-period, some became leaders within the Jesus movement. Most notably among them Larry Norman, Barry McGuire, Love Song, Second Chapter of Acts, Randy Stonehill, Randy Matthews, and during the mid-1970s, Keith Green. Much of the music[3] was a blend of folk music and folk rock (Children of the Day, Paul Clark, John Fischer, Nancy Honeytree, Mark Heard, Noel Paul Stookey), soft rock (Chuck Girard, Tom Howard, Phil Keaggy, Mustard Seed Faith, Salvation Air Force, Pat Terry), R&B (Andraé Crouch (and the Disciples)), soul music/jazz fusion (Sweet Comfort Band), country rock (Bethlehem, Daniel Amos, Gentle Faith, The Talbot Brothers - John Michael and Terry Talbot, The Way), and hard rock (Agape, All Saved Freak Band, Petra, Resurrection Band, Servant). Initially, the music tended to be relatively simple, as it drew largely on guitar-based folk and folk-rock influences. The message also seemed to be relatively simple, as the songwriters attempted to present the value of a Christ-centered spiritual experience without evoking the vocabulary or other trappings of ecclesiastical religion. Rather than quoting religious cliches or King James Bible verses, they used storytelling, allegory, imagery, and complex metaphors, often with a colloquial language that flustered conservatives. In addition to the basic message of salvation, the lyrics often reflected the expectation of the imminent Second Coming of Christ prominent in evangelical circles at the time, reflect...