70s prog that sounds great?

I'm on yet another 70s progressive rock kick right now (mainly Genesis and Yes) and looking for recommendations of Christian prog. I'm a stickler for clear production with a 70s sound and good songwriting. What albums do you recommend getting into?

Check out Neil Morse, not straight up 70s prog but a lot of influence. Have you listened to early Kansas? Livgren became a Christian and his search was often reflected in his lyrics.

As much as I enjoyed that, I don't know very many of the Christian bands from then. There have been newer bands that play prog (Ajalon, Neal Morse, etc) and some may have a classic sound. You may also follow what Karry Livgren did. I think the closest and most well known may be Glass Harp and Phil Keaggy. There had been a Christian Prog Yahoo group but nothing has been posted since it moved to Google in Nov since Yahoo shut down. I'd also recommend listening to Tri-Rock Radio as they play a bunch of stuff I've never heard of from way back when so you can expand your horizons at the same time (note they also play clean secular).

Let me know what you find. I had all the Yes, Rush & PF LPs, most of Genesis, and a bunch of stuff you've likely never heard of and I can't even remember.

Someone on CMR posted about these guys. I don't know anything about them, but they're supposedly Christian and sound pretty cool from the bits I heard... Maybe you'll dig 'em!

kerrick wrote:

Someone on CMR posted about these guys.  I don't know anything about them, but they're supposedly Christian and sound pretty cool from the bits I heard...  Maybe you'll dig 'em!

Great music. If only I knew German better.