an original jesus rocker, jester & brilliant balladeer
Rediscover the music and wit of Randy Stonehill on his new Lost Art of Listening Tour. Listen to Randy recount origin stories of some of his best known songs as well as his ring side view of the dynamic growth of christian music and challenges of living life on the road. You will be encouraged by his message of grace and forgiveness as only a battle tested rocker like him can tell.
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50 years, 30+ albums, so many stories to tell...
Who is Randy Stonehill?
Released March 2022
There’s a Rainbow Somewhere
The Songs of Randy Stonehill
“There’s a Rainbow Somewhere” features an impressive gathering of artists. It's a celebration of the Randy Stonehill’s fifty years of creating memorable and compelling Christian music. Many of the industry’s well known artists, including Michael W. Smith and Amy Grant, recorded favorite Stonehill songs for the project. The album also includes some of "Uncle Rand’s" most noteworthy artistic collaborators, such as Terry Scott Taylor and Phil Keaggy. The result is a rich and broad selection of newly interpreted Stonehill music.
Stonehill Discography
Here in order of production is Stonehill’s catalog over his 50+ career as a singer-songwriter. Click on any album cover below for full review and download link.
1969 - Prologue
It all really began in 1969. That year Larry Norman releases “Upon This Rock” the first “Christian Rock” album and arguably the beginning of Contemporary Christian Music as a genre. In July of this year Neil Armstrong walks on the moon and the whole world watched, and in August nearly 500,000 kids gathered in upstate New York for Woodstock.
In March Randy, age 17, visits Larry who had moved to Hollywood from San Jose, where both he and Larry went to high school. He had been invited by his friend Nancy-Jo, Larry’s sister. This was the beginning of Randy’s apprenticeship with Norman. In April, back in San Jose, Randy sees Led Zeppelin’s very first show in the US at the Fillmore in San Francisco and manages to get Bill Graham to allow him backstage to meet the band. He asks Robert Plant if he would like to jam together the next day. Plant gave him the phone number for his hotel and asked him to call back in the morning. Nothing came of it except showing just how deeply rooted is Randy’s bold, if naive optimism even at that age.