Glenn Kaiser

Infobox musical artist
Name = Glenn Kaiser

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Img_capt = Glenn Kaiser playing at Cornerstone Festival (2004)
Background = solo_singer
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Born = Birth date and age|1953|1|21|mf=y Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
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Instrument = Guitar, Harmonica, Lap steel guitar
Genre = Blues-rock, Heavy metal, Rock, R&B (Early Days)
Occupation = Musician, Pastor
Years_active = c. 1965 – Present
Label = Grrr Records
Associated_acts = Resurrection Band Glenn Kaiser Band
URL = [http://www.glennkaiser.com Glenn Kaiser Official site]
Notable_instruments = Fender Stratocaster Epiphone Sheraton Gibson Les Paul

Glenn Kaiser (born January 21, 1953cite web |url=http://www.resurrectionband.com/|title=Resurrection Band Website biographies |accessdate=2007-03-23] ) is a Chicago-based Christian blues musician, singer-songwriter, and pastor. He was the leader of Resurrection Band and is currently the leader of The Glenn Kaiser Band.

Personal life

Childhood

Kaiser's older brother and sister left the house while he was still youngcite book |last= Powell |first= Mark Allan |title= Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music |origdate= |origyear= 2002 |origmonth=August |publisher= Hendrickson Publishers |isbn= 1-56563-679-1 |pages=pp. 467-469] , and his parents divorced when he was nine years old. Kaiser was active in Milwaukee's music scene, starting at the age of twelve, and was a member of more than twelve bands, leading two, before reaching nineteen years of agecite web |url=http://www.glennkaiser.com/bios.cfm |title=Glenn Kaiser Biography |accessdate=2007-03-23] .

Glenn Kaiser was raised as a nominal Lutheran, and experimented in drugs before he became a born-again Christian, around the time of his eighteenth birthday. He was quoted as saying: "Nothing else gave me so much happiness or sense of purpose until I asked Jesus Christ to come into my heart and become absolute Lord of my life".

JPUSA

Kaiser joined and got involved in "The USA Traveling Team" of Jesus People Milwaukee (later renamed "Jesus People USA" [http://www.jpusa.org/lessons1a.html] ), where he met Wendi, his future wife. Wendi's brother, John Herrin, Jr., and Glenn later became members of the pastoral team before the age of twenty-five. JPUSA is the community that organizes the Cornerstone Festival, at which Glenn Kaiser and Resurrection Band have played.

Later life

Glenn Kaiser married former Resurrection Band member, Wendi Herrin (born April 8, 1953), in June 1972cite web |url=http://www.askwendi.com/bio.html |title=Wendi Kaiser Biography |accessdate=2007-03-23] . Glenn and Wendi have one son, Aaron, and three daughters: Rebecca (husband Matt), Heidi, and Amy (husband Brian). In 1994, Glenn Kaiser published a book, "The Responsibility of the Christian Musician"cite book |last=Kaiser |first=Glenn |title=The Responsibility of the Christian Musician |date=1994 |publisher=Cornerstone Press Chicago |location= Chicago, Illinois|isbn=0-940895-22-6] .

Resurrection Band

Glenn Kaiser's most successful, and prominent band is Resurrection Band, which included his wife Wendi, Wendi's brother John Herrin, Roy Montroy, and Stu Heiss. It began in mid-December 1971 as a band of the Jesus People of "Milwaukee" (part of "The USA Traveling Team"). It was first known as "Charity" (the King James Bible term for "love"). It was a traveling team and was a mobile outreach of "Jesus People of Milwaukee" until the ministry disbanded in the summer of 1972. "Charity" changed it's name to "Resurrection Band" around March, 1972, and the band, as part of "The USA Traveling Team" left Milwaukee for the last time in early June of 1972. They performed on the road, loosely-based in Florida for a few months, and eventually calling Chicago home in early 1973 with Jesus People USA. Though many considered it "the devil's music," Resurrection Band helped transform Contemporary Christian music toward blues and rock music. The band ended, after nearly thirty years, in 2000.

Discography

Resurrection Band

Independent Cassettes

* "Music to Raise the Dead" (1974)
* "All Your Life" (1974)

tudio Albums

* "Awaiting Your Reply" (1978)
* "Rainbow's End" (1979)
* "Colours" (1980)
* "Mommy Don't Love Daddy Anymore" (1981)
* "D.M.Z." (1982)
* "Hostage" (1984)
* "Between Heaven 'N Hell" (1985)
* "Silence Screams" (1988)
* "Innocent Blood" (1989)
* "Civil Rites" (1991)
* "Reach of Love" (1993)
* "Lament" (1995)
* "Ampendectomy" (1997)

Live Albums

* "Live Bootleg" (1984)
* "XX Years Live" (1992)

Compilation Albums

* "" (1984)
* "" (1988)
* "The Light Years" (1995)
* "Music to Raise the Dead 1972-1998" (2008)

Glenn Kaiser Band

* "Winter Sun" (2000)
* "Carolina Moon" (2001)
* "Ripley County Blues" (2002)
* "Blacktop" (2003)
* "GKB Live" (2005)
* "Octane" (2008)

olo and other albums

* "Trimmed and Burnin'" (1990, as Kaiser/Mansfield)
* "Slow Burn" (1993, as Kaiser/Mansfield)
* "All My Days" (1993)
* "Spontaneous Combustion" (1994)
* "Into the Night" (1995, as Kaiser/Mansfield/Howard)
* "Throw Down Your Crowns" (1997)
* "You Made The Difference in Me" (1998, Review: " [http://web.archive.org/web/20010713013634/www.hmmagazine.com/issue72/72Albums.htm HM Magazine] "cite journal |last=McGovern |first=Brian Vincent |year=1998 |month=July/August |title=Album Reviews: GLENN KAISER "You Made the Difference in Me" |journal=HM Magazine |id=ISSN|1066-6923 |issue=72 |pages= ] )
* "Time Will Tell" (1999, Review: " [http://web.archive.org/web/20010717025343/www.hmmagazine.com/issue78/78AlbumReviews.htm HM Magazine] "cite journal |last=Van Pelt |first=Doug |year=1999 |month=July/August |title=Album Reviews: Glenn Kaiser "time will tell" |journal=HM Magazine |id=ISSN|1066-6923 |issue=78 |pages= |accessdate=] )
* "Blues Heaven" (1999)
* "No Greater Love" (2002, as "Glenn Kaiser and Friends")
* "Trimmed and Burnin' & Slow Burn" (2002, as Kaiser/Mansfield)
* "Bound For Glory" (2006)
* "Blues Heaven II" (2006)

References

Further reading

* |isbn=0-7876-6026-4 |chapter=Resurrection Band |pages=176-178

External links

* [http://www.glennkaiser.com Glenn Kaiser Official website]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20041225114619/www.cornerstonemag.com/pages/show_page.asp?245 Glenn's testimony, from Cornerstone Magazine]
* [http://www.grrrrecords.com/artist.cfm?ID=5 Grrr Records]
* [http://www.resurrectionband.com Rez Band Official website]
* [http://www.christianblues.net/store/Scripts/prodList.asp?idCategory=45 ChristianBlues.net]

Persondata
NAME=Kaiser, Glenn
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Blues musician, singer-songwriter, pastor
DATE OF BIRTH=January 21, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH=Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
DATE OF DEATH=
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