Tag: The Wall Brothers

This is the first album from The Wall Brothers. It was initially self released as a self titled album but it looks like Greentree Records picked it up the following year and released it with a new cover and title. I still can find anything out about these guys. I have discovered that before this album they were known as The Chancellors and had a couple albums with the Lefevre family. I can’t find either of those two albums but they look like they were more praise oriented. As for the album I really liked the opening track but it should never have been chosen as an opening track. The rest of the album is a little dull but if you like 70’s Jesus music you might like it. When I say dull I mean, typical. It is a typical 70’s light rock Jesus music album but not a bad one.

Tracklist
1 – Two Hands – 3:45
2 – Walk In The Sunshine – 2:42
3 – Jesus (He Is The Son Of God) – 4:55
4 – Jesus Got Ahold Of My Life – 4:10
5 – More (Than You’ll Ever Know) – 4:04
6 – Which Way The Wind Blows – 4:59
7 – Follow The Man With The Music – 3:18
8 – Praise The Lord, He Never Changes – 3:48
9 – Didn’t He? – 5:12
10 – If My People Pray – 3:39

Credits
Acoustic Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Greg Wall
Arranged By, Keyboards – Lari Goss
Art Direction – Bob McConnell
Bass – Roni Goss
Cover – Michael Harris
Drums, Percussion – Buster Phillips
Electric Guitar – Kenny Mims
Photography – Dill Beaty
Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – James Goss
Steel Guitar – Glynn Andrews

Companies, etc.
Recorded At – The Sound Pit
Mixed At – The Sound Pit
Mastered At – Masterfonics

The Wall Brothers are one of the most mystifying 70’s bands I have listened to. I missed this album back in the day and I’m guessing it’s because it wasn’t released in Canada. That said the band was hugely popular in the Genre. We get comments all the time about how much people liked them yet, I can find next to nothing about them. Bass player Randy Nelson has chimed in on our website and speaks fondly of his time with the band and says he’s still in contact with them. All that said I can find very very little about them in the interwebs. How did such a popular and excellent band become so unknown? This is a travesty because these guys were great and deserve some attention. Okay let’s get onto the album. While the album has a 70’s feel it does not have a typical Jesus Music sound. This is a Rock & Roll album and not some worship album. That said it does have some Ballads but they are actual Rock ballads. The lyrics are in your face Christianity. None of this ship in the desert stuff. This is well thought out Christ lyrics. Wish I had heard this one back in the day, it would have fit in nicely with our early SCB listening sessions.

Tracklist
1 – I Never Understood – 3:10
2 – Wind On Summer Nights – 4:46
3 – Walkin’ On The Water – 3:15
4 – Your Love Is Just What I Need – 4:45
5 – I Am – 4:38
6 – Givin’ It Up – 3:07
7 – Start All Over Again – 5:12
8 – Joyman – 3:48
9 – Clouds Of Glory – 4:32
10 – Where Will You Be Tomorrow? – 4:42

Credits
Arranged By [Horn Arrangements] – Shane Keister
Art Direction, Design – Bob McConnell
Bass, Vocals – Greg Wall
Drums, Percussion – Lance DeMers
Electric Guitar – Randy Nelson
Engineer – Bob Clark, Gene Eichelburger
Flugelhorn, Trumpet – George Tidwell
Flute – Billy Puett
Keyboards [Fender Rhodes], Lead Vocals – Kraig Wall
Lyrics By – Lance DeMers
Mastered By – Glenn Meadows
Mixed By – Travis Turk
Music By – Kraig Wall
Photography By – Dill Beaty
Producer – Phil Johnson
Synthesizer [Arp] – Shane Keister

Companies, etc.
Copyright © – Greentree Records
Published By – John T. Benson Pub. Co.
Published By – Dimension Music
Recorded At – Great Circle Sound
Mastered At – Masterfonics

This is the 4th and final album from The Wall Brothers. As I have said in other reviews of this band I really can’t find much info on them. This album continues on similar to their previous albums. It has an easy listening seventies sound and stays away from anything close to Rock & Roll. That said it’s a great album for this style and I quite like it. Unfortunately I don’t think any tracks will make it into my regular rotation but I did quite like the track “I Am Free” which I think is really well written and performed though it’s not really my usual style.

Tracklist
1 – Open Up – 3:21
2 – What’s Your Hope In – 3:37
3 – Right In Your Light – 3:10
4 – I Am Free – 3:51
5 – He Loves You So Much – 4:12
6 – Finally Found My Heart – 4:21
7 – Where Do We Go From Here – 4:22
8 – Just Another Day – 3:50
9 – He Must’ve Planned It That Way – 4:46

Credits
Mastered By – Hank Williams
Producer – Phil Johnson

Companies, etc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Greentree Records
Copyright © – Greentree Records
Mastered At – Woodland Studios

Greg and Kraig Wall are back with their second album. I haven’t heard the first one but have read that this one is huge improvement over their first album. Like many seventies act much of the history of the Wall brothers has been lost to time. They appear to have been quite popular at the time and even had a couple charting CCM singles but not off this album. Anyway what we have here is a mainly easy listening seventies style album. It’s quite well done and the brothers dabbled with a bit of Rock & Roll on the track “Since The Day I Was Born” which has a 70’s funk feel and I find myself wishing there were more tracks like this.

Tracklist
1 – Song Of Joy – 1:47
2 – Little Children – 3:01
3 – I Can Depend On You – 3:56
4 – Since The Day I Was Born – 3:49
5 – Can’t You See – 3:47
6 – Sons Of God – 6:30
7 – Isn’t It A Miracle – 2:48
8 – I Never Knew – 2:58
9 – You And I Are One – 3:01
10 – Now We’re Gone – 4:57

Credits
Acoustic Guitar – Greg Wall
Arranged By [String Arrangements] – Joe Huffman
Art Direction – Dill Beaty
Backing Vocals – Greg Wall, Kraig Wall, Mitch Humphries, Roni Goss
Bass – Roni Goss
Drums – Buster PhillipsElectric
Electric Guitar – Randy Nelson
Engineer – James Goss, Stan Dacus
Guitar – Joe Huffman
Percussion – Farrell Morris
Photography By – Dill Beaty
Piano – Kraig Wall, Lari Goss
Producer – James W. Goss
Remix – Bob Clark
Rhythm Guitar – James Goss
Steel Guitar – Tommy Dodd

Companies, etc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Greentree Records
Copyright (c) – Greentree Records
Recorded At – Mark Five Studios
Mastered At – Masterfonics
Remixed At – Great Circle Sound