Stonehill, Randy
Welcome To Paradise
(Solid Rock, 1976/2002)

 
 
Producer: Larry Norman

Known Formats
CD – catalog # SRD-002, lyrics included - yes

Musicians
The Mighty T-Bone Ayers – bass
Anthony Harris – charts and baton
Jon "Wonderfingers" Linn – lead and rhythm guitars
Larry Norman – electric guitar, harmonica, piano, percussion, harmonies
Randy Stonehill – lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, glass wind chimes, harmonies
Mark Walker – drums

Songs
1. King Of Hearts (4:53)
2. Keep Me Runnin' (5:58)
3. The Winner (High Card) (3:46)
4. Lung Cancer (3:33)
5. Puppet Strings (4:25)
6. First Prayer (3:09)
7. I've Got News For You (3:51)
8. Song For Sarah (3:28)
9. Christmas Song For All Year 'Round (3:49)
10. Good News (5:39)

Bonus tracks
11. Janet (3:11)
12. The Winner (3:26)
13. News For You (2:57)
14. Keep Me Running (3:24)
15. Let Me Do It (0:48)
16. [Randy and Larry writing "Heart Lock"] (2:54)

Total Time – 59:10
 

Comments: This is another "Historical Archives" CD reissue from Solid Rock which couldn't be more overdue in this format.  The bonus tracks are all demo recordings of album tracks, or studio fun and frolic.  This 16 track version was only available on the first pressing, I believe.  While it became standard operating procedure for Solid Rock to reissue their albums on CDR in the 2000s before Larry's death in 2008, this album was given a little better treatment.  At least the second pressing, which only had two bonus tracks, was also on pressed CD.  I only know that because I have a copy.  If I didn't, I would be assuming it was a CDR, and this is not to say that there aren't CDR versions out there.  Solid Rock may have began selling CDRs of this album after the second pressing ran out, or some good bootlegger could have done so, and because Solid Rock became such a mass producer of CDRs, nobody would know better.

Now for the problems - This disc has bleedover issues on tracks 3 through 7.  The track divisions are a fraction of a second off - so this makes it difficult to shuffle this original CD or to program it to play out of order.  Fortunately, in this age of free music editing shareware, correcting the problem and making your own disc/mp3s is not difficult or even expensive.  This problem was fixed on my 12 track second pressing disc.