All Saved Freak Band – Harps On Willows - Best Of The All Saved Freak Band Volume One (2006)

While bands like Petra and Resurrection Band spent the '70s perfecting a heavy rock'n'roll, ASFB plowed a blusier furrow with ace blues guitarist Glenn Schwartz exemplifying his renowned skills. This 18-track CD brings together tracks from their four albums and, while the bluesy thing is going on, the band's music is not easily pigeon holed.

One joy is the fact that they wrote songs that were simple in their message. These are songs to get people to think about the Gospel, an art that seems to be missing in modern Christian music. These recordings are very much of their time so they are a little ragged around the edges production wise but the band certainly fulfilled their ambition to create music that would stop people in their tracks and make them respond to the Gospel."[Mike Rimmer, Cross Rhythms U.K.]

The All Saved Freak Band is widely recognized as one of America's earliest pioneers in what has since become known as Contemporary Christian Music. Five years before the term, "Contemporary Christian Music," was coined, and one year before Larry Norman, the "father" of CCM released his first album, the music of ASFB founders, Joe Markko and Larry Hill, was already being played on local radio in Ohio. Described by Black Keys and Arcs frontman Dan Auerbach as "the forerunners of an entire genre," the enduring music of the All Saved Freak Band continues to provide value for a new generation of listeners.