Jordan Crossing's album, The Valley, the Mountain, and the Other Side is a Christian rock collection featuring a variety of styles of music.

The songs range from the traditional Lonesome Valley and singer/keyboardist Jann Marthaler's gospel rock version of Amazing Grace to the straight-on rock of The Mountain and Psalms. ("Psalms" takes a Bo-Diddley-meets-the-poet-David approach.)

There's also the more-acoustic Carry Me Away and He Was a Man...the latter a touching tribute to drummer Hunter Ramseur's father.

And, Barry Kiefaber's Twentieth Century Hero combines a pointed message with the feel of a circa-'60s protest tune.

The album concludes with The Other Side, a latter-day Appalachian folk gospel song that is performed a cappella.

The cassettes can be ordered by sending a check or money order for $8.99 (plus $2.00 shipping and handling) to:

Electric Quilt Music
Post Office Box 1314
Norcross, GA 30091-1314

© 1999 David Ray Skinner, Electric Quilt Music