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Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?: Larry Norman and the Perils of Christian Rock

By Gregory Alan Thornbury
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
Unabridged — 9 hours, 31 minutes
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By Gregory Alan Thornbury
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
Unabridged — 9 hours, 31 minutes
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In 1969, in Capitol Records' Hollywood studio, a blonde-haired troubadour named Larry Norman laid track for an album that would launch a new genre of music and one of the strangest, most interesting careers in modern rock. Having spent the bulk of the 1960s playing on bills with acts like the Who, Janis Joplin, and the Doors, Norman decided that he wanted to sing about the most countercultural subject of all: Jesus.

Billboard called Norman "the most important songwriter since Pau…