(see this page for select post-2000 artists)

Welcome to the largest and probably only contribution I will make to Christian music.  I hope this will become one of the handiest places on the www to look up the discography of Christian artists, primarily the older ones.  If you are going to bookmark this site, I'd suggest setting the bookmark for www.ccmdiscography.com.  If I ever need to change hosts for some reason, the first thing I will do after relocating my site is update my two domains - www.ccmrockman.com & www.ccmdiscography.com - both of which I will hopefully retain for the remainder of my days in this life, or at least for the rest of the lifespan of the freely available internet.

I first got the idea for this project when I saw the r.m.c. discography attempt.  I really found the r.m.c. discography useful when I first started looking at older more collectable Christian groups, primarily in the Christian rock category.  But as I became more familiar with the artists, I also noticed all the holes and date inaccuracies in the list.  I thought I would take this list and expand it to include all Christian music artists who had their first major release from the beginnings of contemporary Christian music as we know it through the year 2000.  I won't attempt to expand the list much past 2000 given the explosion in the number of new artists since the early 90's, with a few exceptions that are listed on the post-2000 artists page above below the main menu.  So this list will largely only cover the discographies of Christian artists/groups who had their first publicly available work - be it a demo, EP, or whole album - released on CS, CD, etc., by the year 2000 or earlier.  This is simply because I have to draw the line on this project somewhere.  And the first year of the new millennium (as some of us see it!) seems as good a stopping point as any.  This list is probably most accurate and comprehensive for Christian rock, which is my chief interest.

The main lists will consist of the discography, including demos and EPs, of groups that have at least one professionally produced release.  I have tried to give the home country of all international (outside the U.S.) artists in this list.  They must have at least one album sung mostly or entirely in English to be included in the discography.  I currently have several non-English releases in the list of several prominent artists who had multiple language versions of their releases but am in the process of moving the releases with non-English vocals to a separate page.  I have also tried to distinguish different groups with the same name by including their home country, or state if in the U.S.

This discography listing is NOT (I'll say it again - NOT) based on my personal collection.  I have tried to gather all my discography listings from reliable internet sources, or printed catalogs that I have collected over the years.  Personally, I favor the listing format of the r.m.c. discography, with the artists and their albums listed on one page as opposed to a listing of just the band names with half a million links to individual band discography pages.  This makes the site a little more manageable for me.  Another thing that makes my lists unique on the web (from what I've seen so far) is how I've tried to indicate which albums are officially available on pressed CD, which is a very big interest to me and most other CCM collectors.

**Notes about album info pages and the latest updates (February 2021 update)**
In order to facilitate the completion of my reposting of the old album info pages in conjuction with finalizing links on the latest update to my personal collection page, I have been attempting to prepare updates to all discography pages that have not had significant updates within the last few years...which is pretty much all of them.  While many pages have been updated with some of the latest releases of the artists I regularly follow and/or collect, they may also be noticeably incomplete on many other artists I am not as regular or enthusiastic a follower of since I never seem to be able to find enough time on a regular basis over the course of several consecutive months to stick to updating this project utilizing all the newest online information sources that have developed over the last decade - primarily the new ultimate source for online discographies of all genres, Discogs.com.  The first several pages of the ECMD (through "I", I believe), are the most updated as I was only able to make it that far a few years ago on my latest update "restart" in 2018 before getting sidetracked with other typical life things.  In March of 2020, I embarked on a reverse-order update attempt of my pages (beginning with "Z" and got through "T" before becoming sidetracked) where, in addition to significant updates for certain artists with a primary focus on those I collect, I have also begun indicating all known formats for each release as vinyl has been enjoying a huge resurgence in interest to both collectors and music enthusiasts these days, and there are many releases in the late 80s and early 90s that were not issued on vinyl in the U.S. where vinyl was going out of favor at that time but was still one of the preferred medias of choice in other countries, usually the UK.  And, of course, most releases after 1991 to 1992 were not issued on vinyl at all, and limited edition vinyl reissues of these post-'91/'92 albums are now popping up everywhere.  Many new releases of the last several years are now being offered initially with a typically limited-edition vinyl pressing.  Another reason for my new indication of known media formats in my lists is that several reissue labels are now focusing on vinyl in addition to CD reissues, and sometimes a title will be reissued only on vinyl and not CD if earlier CD issues are still plentiful and not hard to find online in a low cost range, or have already been recently reissued on CD.  Another change that will be in progress is that I will be transferring the titles only available on official CD-R from the "Other Collectables" page to the respective artist's listing since I will now be indicating which format (CD or CD-R) the "*" listings are referencing.  While I have fortunately been able to continue full time work throughout the ongoing Covid-19 health crisis, I also seem to have a bit of a new drive to make it entirely through my discography pages with this new focus on indicating formats, which is why I'm hoping to post a partial update ("A" through "I" and "T" through "Z" pages) very soon.  While I'm not sure how long it will take to make it through the rest of my "middle" pages, I am fairly determined to continue plodding away at every opportunity until it is done, and to also revisit the first pages to add known media formats to key artists on those as well.  With the advent of Discogs.com, whatever future plans and dreams I may have had for my old album info pages now seems painfully obsolete.  So I may get to a point in the not-too-distant future, as I attempt to continue with more complete updates of each discography page whenever time and life will allow, of reposting additional album/release info pages I have from way back when that were held back for some future grand vision of this site that now seems highly improbable to me at this time with all the other available more modern-looking information sources available to all of us now (which, in my book, is a very good thing!).  While I would love the idea of continuing to make album info pages for all the music items I currently have, the reality of 24 hours in a day and our fairly limited and unknown lifespan, in addition to the previously-stated alternate, better looking sources for such information, makes this mission seem rather quaint and unimportant to me now outside of the time-prohibitive nature of such ambitions for those of us who still must make a living attempting to work 40 hours a week in an area which does not happen to coincide with our hobby of choice.

Disclaimers

Technically, I can only guarantee the CD availability of those albums in my collection and those which I have sold or seen in used CD stores, which would probably consist of less than 1/10 of what's listed.  All other titles that I have listed as being available in CD format were listed as such somewhere on the internet (on an artist home page, an online store, etc.) or in a printed catalog that I have.  Just because my list may not mention an album being available on CD doesn't necessarily mean that it isn't.  I may also have a few albums listed as being available on CD which are not (officially).  And beware of bootleggers as well.  They've become more and more prominent on eBay, and I am hoping to eventually post a separate page that will list known bootleg versions and bootleggers of rare Christian albums on eBay and the internet which I have found over the years.  It is my full intention, whenever I indicate a CD-R in my discography listings, to only do so when I am certain an "official" CD-R pressing of the release was made available from the artist or record label.  Obviously, there are a lot of CD-R bootlegs out there that are not official, but there were several labels selling Christian music in the late 90s and afterward - primarily Larry Norman's Solid Rock label - and many other instances of independent releases direct from an artist or from a smaller independent label that were only offered on CD-R rather than pressed CD.  I used to relegate such listings to my "Other Collectables" page, but the number of official CD-R releases and reissues has gotten to be so numerous that it does not make sense to me to try and separate them from my main lists anymore.   I intended for the year of release shown in each entry of my lists to match the year indicated on the actual release, regardless of whether the album was completed earlier.  Hopefully all dates shown will be at least +/- 1 year from the one given on the actual release, if there is one.  The exception to this rule is reissues.  For those, I hope to list the year it was re-released, which may not be the date listed on the reissue.  I can't guarantee that all titles, spellings, etc., are accurate.  I do not guarantee that every group listed on this page is a Christian group; a few of the sources for my list came from catalogs which were also selling some secular titles, and I may have unknowingly included several of those.

Credits

This list was mostly composed using the following sources, many of which are not in print or do not exist on the internet any more:

The Gospel Rox Music Collector's Guide (by Claude Crain)
A Decade Of Jesus Music site
Other online discographies -- r.m.c., Cutting Edge, All Music Guide, Wikipedia, JesusFreakHideout, Both Sides Now (amazing site!!!), Discogs.com (the ultimate source!), Southern Gospel History, Invubu
Christian music online stores -- 777 Music, Christian Digital Music, The Crossing, Rock Solid, Amazon
Christian music magazines -- CCM, HM
Printed Christian music catalogs -- Long's Christian Music (pre-True Tunes), Rock Revival, RadRockers
Christian band link sites -- Christian Music Place, Christian Artist List

How You Can Help

This list is far from complete and probably has many errors.  If you would like to help me out with one or more of the following, then please email me.  In the past I have been quite slow in replying.  I'll try to do so more swiftly in the future, and let you know that I did receive the email.  After the discography has been updated, I hope to implement all corrections/additions sent to me by the beginning of next month.  Email me if I need to:

- add a new artist (see requiremenst above for inclusion in the listings)
- remove an artist on the main list whose discography doesn't meet my listing specifications
- add missing titles/dates or fix an incorrect one
- add/remove the CD availability indication of an album
- spelling error or incorrect label
- add another version (label) for a title
- any other imperfection (mistake or omission) on the list
- add a new link, or remove/update a dead link to an official or unofficial band home page
- recommend another official source for making this list more complete and accurate

Last Updated February 2021