Album: Ride On (1969)

All that to say that very, very few of the new Jesus People making music wrote about social issues. While their Catholic brothers and sisters, influenced by Vatican II, did in fact create folk music with sometimes intense political and social commentary, the Jesus People’s focus was relentlessly vertical and often apocalyptic. Again, one had to be in that time period to know just how much it did indeed seem the End of All Things was near. But in retrospect, considering all that was going on around them, much Jesus music failed to reflect that complexity of being a Christian not of the world but very much in the world.

Jon Trott