Old Enough to Forget

Back in the early '80s I started to listen to Christian music, and the pickings were pretty slim. The number of artists I really liked I could count on one hand. Keith Green was a piano-playing singer who dropped his first "Christian" album in 1977. He'd release a couple of albums with label support before being overcome with the desire to go all in on his vision of ministry, to the point where he felt he couldn't charge for his albums. So he did the unthinkable. He put his money where his mouth was, and he made an album his way. Then said (I'm liberally paraphrasing here), "I'll send it to you if you want it. If you want to send a love offering that would be nice, but if you can't that's cool too." A couple of my friends had his earlier albums and they liked them ... I never did get them. But I did send a gift (can't remember how much, but it was about what I'd have paid), and sure enough, a little while later the album arrived. ...