John Fischer (Counterculture vs Subculture)
John Fischer was making “Jesus Music” in the mid-1960s – before it was even a “thing.” At a recent live event in Fullerton California, JJT invited Fischer to join the conversation and talk about those early countercultural days and how it all came together. Before there was an industry, a genre, or even a movement, there were kids with guitars and a desire to experience God in a meaningful, tangible way. Fischer went on to become one of the accidental innovators of a new style of music. But when the counterculture became a subculture – and a movement became a market – he never lost that fire in his belly. What might the counterculture of the 60s have to tell us about our troubled times today – and what might a new Jesus Movement look – and sound – like if it was to break out now?
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John Fischer Songs Featured In This Episode:
Got To Shout About It
Hard Feeling to Explain
The Road of Life
The Cold Cathedral
Jesus, My Lord
Cup of Cold Water
Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt
By My Spirit
Check out JJT’s 1994 review of John Fischer and Noel Paul Stookey in concert at Wheaton College (originally published in CCM Magazine.)
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