Zion (album)
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Zion is a concept album
written and performed by the guitarist Phil Keaggy
as a tribute to the master guitarmaker Ken Hoover at Zion guitars. Though Ken is being racked by a progressively destructive disease, unable to handcraft guitars himself, he still works at the Zion guitars workshop.
All the songs on the album are played on the very same Zion Radicaster that Ken made for Phil.
Concept album
In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...
written and performed by the guitarist Phil Keaggy
Phil Keaggy
Phil Keaggy is an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist who has released more than 50 albums and contributed to many more recordings in both the contemporary Christian music and mainstream markets...
as a tribute to the master guitarmaker Ken Hoover at Zion guitars. Though Ken is being racked by a progressively destructive disease, unable to handcraft guitars himself, he still works at the Zion guitars workshop.
All the songs on the album are played on the very same Zion Radicaster that Ken made for Phil.