To the Bride, released in 1975, is a two-LP live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 featuring Barry McGuire

Barry McGuire

Barry McGuire is an American singer-songwriter best known for the hit song "Eve of Destruction", and later as a pioneering singer and songwriter of Contemporary Christian Music.-Early life:...

, 2nd Chapter of Acts

2nd Chapter of Acts

The 2nd Chapter of Acts was a Jesus Music and early Contemporary Christian Music group composed of sisters Annie Herring and Nelly Greisen and brother Matthew Ward. They began performing in 1973 and enjoyed their period of greatest success during the 1970s...

, and a band called David

A band called David

a band called David was a group of musicians who provided the instrumental support from 1974 until 1988 for the 2nd Chapter of Acts, a Contemporary Christian music group....

. The album was culled from four concerts performed in the summer of 1975 and is the first of two live albums that 2nd Chapter of Acts recorded for Myrrh Records

Myrrh Records

Myrrh Records, also known as Myrrh Worship, is a Christian music record label. According to Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music, the label was instrumental in developing a popular following for Contemporary Christian music as the label that first published music by Barry McGuire, 2nd Chapter of...

, although the majority of the concert is performed by McGuire.

The album (minus one song) was re-released on two CDs in 2007, and is available from McGuire's website.

Side one

1. Intro* - 0:56
2. Come To Praise The Lord - 3:30
3. Little Bitty Dude* - 3:23
4. He's Coming Back - 4:52
5. Sad Song* - 2:36
6. Happy Road - 3:33
7. Acts Intro* - 2:23

Side two

1. Which Way's the Light - 2:03
2. Love, Peace, Joy - 1:05
3. Layers* - 1:05
4. I Wonder - 1:55
5. Ogre* - 0:51
6. Am I Seeing You - 2:15
7. Denomination Blues - 2:43 (cover tune, omitted from the CD version)
8. A Friend* - 0:18
9. Jimmy's Song - 2:33
10. Snow White* - 1:36
11. Prince Song - 3:27

Side three

1. He Alone Is Worthy - 0:46 (chorus of O Come All Ye Faithful
   Adeste Fideles
   "Adeste Fideles" is a hymn tune attributed to English hymnist John Francis Wade . The text itself has unclear beginnings, and may have been written in the 13th century by John of Reading, though it has been concluded that Wade was probably the author.The original four verses of the hymn were...
   
    with modified lyrics; continuation of "Prince Song" coda)
2. Easter Song - 2:34
3. He Is Coming - 3:18
4. Anyone But Jesus - 4:10
5. The Only Way* - 1:53
6. Sing the Melody - 3:22
7. Shock Absorbers* - 1:55
8. Chosen Generation - 3:25

Side four

1. Jesus People - 2:33
2. I Walked a Mile - 4:26
3. Dolphins* - 4:27
4. Callin' Me Home - 3:54
5. Each Other* - 0:13
6. Doesn't That Bible Say - 4:25
7. Brainwashed* - 0:49
8. Doesn't That Bible Say (Reprise) - 1:52

(*) Titles are spoken song introductions.

Side Two and the first 3 tracks of Side Three are performed by the 2nd Chapter of Acts. The majority of these songs do not appear on any of their other albums.

Personnel

• Buck Herring: Producer, Mixer
• Wally Duguid: Engineer
• Gary Bonar, Phil Stephen: Assistant engineers
• Barry McGuire
  Barry McGuire
  Barry McGuire is an American singer-songwriter best known for the hit song "Eve of Destruction", and later as a pioneering singer and songwriter of Contemporary Christian Music.-Early life:...
  
  : Vocals, Guitar
• Annie Herring
  Annie Herring
  Annie Herring is one of the pioneers of the Jesus music genre, later to be called Contemporary Christian music. She was more notably a part of the trio, 2nd Chapter of Acts in which she wrote most of the songs and sang lead and harmony vocals with her brother Matthew Ward and sister Nelly Greisen...
  
  : Piano, Vocals
• Nelly Greisen
  Nelly Greisen
  Nelly Greisen was born on December 11, 1955. She joined her older sister, Annie Herring, and younger brother, Matthew Ward, to form the Jesus Music group 2nd Chapter of Acts. The group began singing together in 1970, and disbanded in 1988...
  
  : Vocals
• Matthew Ward
  Matthew Ward (singer)
  Matthew Ward is one of the pioneers of the Jesus music genre, later to be called Contemporary Christian music. He is best known as a part of the trio, 2nd Chapter of Acts in which he sang and performed with his sisters, Annie Herring and Nellie Greisen...
  
  : Vocals
• Jack Kelly: Drums
• Paul Offenbacher, Rick Azim: Guitars
• Herb Melton: Bass
• Richard Souther
  Richard Souther
  Richard Douglas Trowbridge Souther is a composer, producer, arranger, sound designer and multi-keyboardist who has built a strong reputation as a top contemporary solo instrumentalist for over twenty years...
  
  : Piano, Multi-Keyboards, Background Vocals
• Peter York: Rhythm Guitar, Background Vocals
• Jerry Melrose: Concert Coordinator