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Walk Me Through: Jesus Movement Music ’67-’79 (Part 1) (#187)

Religion on the Mind

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The Rise and Fall of the Jesus Movement

By the mid and late 70s, we've really got infrastructure that these Jesus freaks have created to coalesce into what is now CCM. But in the early years, that infrastructure does not exist at all. It's kind of just a bunch of people in it. And there wasn't, it's not really credited as any one person starting this movement. There were little trickles of these things that these JesusFreaks in throughout the country pick up on which are like hinting at a kind of Christian popular music before it really exists.

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