Not the last amen after all

One of my favorite bands makes a comeback, sort of

I have posted before about my admiration for Steve Taylor, whose EP “I Want To Be A Clone” and the followup LP “Meltdown” were among several projects that helped give me a sense of perspective and individualilty while surviving the stifling conformity of Christian college in the early 1980s.

In 2014, when Steve was returning to music after a long sabbatical, I had a chance online encounter which led to me attending an album release concert in Nashville. My blog post about that night is one of the favorite things I’ve ever written. I did not take this video — I was closer to the stage, so you may be seeing the back or top of my head somewhere in this:

The surprise encore that night was a reunion of Chagall Guevara, a band that Steve was a part of in the early 1990s. His previous work had been on Christian record labels — although he hardly fit the mold for Christian music, even in those more-eclectic days. Chagall Guevara, however, was a sort of undercover Christian supergroup (along with Steve, the band included Dave Perkins and Lynn Nichols, along with Wade Jaynes and Mike Mead) on a secular label — and although those familiar with Steve’s songwriting could certainly…