Brother John Rydgren

Born Feb 14, 1932, John Rydgren (or Sibling John, as he had become called an on-air DJ and radio character) was an ordained minister in the American Lutheran Chapel, and for a while was a movie director from the American Lutheran Church’s radio and tv films department. His state to pop background fame arrived in the 1960s and early ’70s when his early syndicated Radio shows, especially the show known as Silhouettes, that was broadcast over the U.S. (and in Vietnam) between 1966 and 1968, reached a wide-ranging target audience. Placement himself as sort of “hip preacher” between Christianity similarly as well as the growing “Blossom Power” generation around the additional, Rydgren interspersed intensifying and psychedelic rock and roll tracks along with his applying for grants spirituality, philosophy, as well as the changing occasions, all inside a deep, genuine, and influencing baritone. He also released three LPs of his thoughts and musings laid more than a backdrop of fuzz guitars, heavenly choirs, and sitar drones, Worlds of Youngsters (1966), Cantata for NEW LEASE OF LIFE (1967), and Silhouette Sections (1968), during this time period period. He passed away on Dec 26, 1988, from a coronary attack at age 56. Omni Information reissued remastered variations of Rydgren’s three LPs, along with reward tracks and yet another LP, THEY STATE, inside a two-disc occur 2012.