Old Enough to Forget

The Seventy Sevens, the 77's, The 77s ... depending on what era you started with you're likely more than familiar with all of the spelling variations. The band's debut album must have been gestating a while before Exit was able to secure distribution. The back of the jacket has this as 1982 as that's when it was recorded, and the songs are mostly from 1980, with one of the newer ones 1981 and a cover of the old standard "Denomination Blues" that was attributed to Ry Cooder. This isn't an album I'd heard back in the day. Although the Christian bookstore I relied on was pretty good at bringing things in if I asked, I had to know what to ask for, and this wasn't on my radar at the time. By '83 my initial infatuation with a lot of Christian music had run its course, and my ability to try and like stuff that was inferior had more or less been exhausted. That isn't to say there weren't bands I still followed, but they were in the minority, an...