ARTICLE: Pocket Full Of Rocks - Love Songs To The King

The rise and fall and rise of Myrrh Records is one of the strangest stories in the unfathomable world of Christian record company manoeuvrings. Started by Billy Ray Hearn in 1972 as a division to Word Records (then of Waco, Texas, later Nashville, Tennessee), Myrrh was the first real contemporary Christian music label. Over the years it released albums by Jesus music pioneers like Randy Matthews and Petra and by the late ’70s was the biggest label in CCM with Amy Grant, Steve Camp and many more. Yet the Myrrh imprint was allowed to languish and in 1997 released its last album. Then, unexpectedly, Myrrh returned.

This year Word Records announced it was reactivating its imprint and that in future Myrrh would be a “worship label”. Despite understandable jibes from more seasoned CCM observers perceiving the whole affair as managerial incompetence followed up with managerial bandwagon-jumping, one thing all the Christian music critics have been able to agree on is the first signing to the reactivated Myrrh has been a very good band. The ‘Song To The King’ album by Pocket Full Of Rocks has finally brought an excellent worship band from Texas to national and international attention. […read more]

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