It took me almost three years to get the courage up to go back in the studio. But he just did not have the personal touch when it came to me, and we just didn't get along. He was a great songwriter, great vocalist, a tremendous musician. Part of it was because he kept trying to cram all of his songs onto the records. But for whatever reasons we just did not get along. But he was one of these people that you either love him or hate him and a lot of people loved him. “In fact, I made one album, and then I didn't make another album for, like, five years and part of that was because I couldn't stand working with the guy who was the producer. “The producer who I shall not name, we were just like oil and water, constantly banging heads,” Peek told Steve Orchard for an interview with Goldmine Magazine. The song reached #7 on the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart. Ready For Love employed a trio of female backup singers - Donna Sheridan, Jackie Cusic, and Janie Frickie– all of whom went on to enjoy successful careers in both Christian and country music. 'Cause somehow I knew you'd always be there For me, lines like these are just way too ambiguous: In fact, this tune, Ready for Love, would’ve totally been at home on Thomas’ Home Where I Belong or Happy Man. Early albums by Amy Grant were littered with these types of songs, as were Christian’s own albums and B.J. That is, a song that appears to be a romantic love song…but could also be taken as a song to or about the Lord. It’s one of those “God as my girlfriend” songs that Chris Christian was famous for in the late 70s. I’m not a big fan of the song that kicks off Side Two. And that’s a message that can’t be sung, written or stated too often. I couldn’t help thinking of the “Coexist” bumper sticker so popular with American liberals as I listened again to Dan Peek sing, “There’s just one way to Heaven, one way to paradise…” There certainly is. Peek’s One Way had crunchy electric guitars and was the only tune on this pop album that came close to rocking.
Norman’s One Way was a ballad played primarily on piano. And this would not be the first time Chris Christian followed Larry’s lead – you might remember a song on Chris’s debut solo album titled Why Does the Devil (Have All the Good Music) which was not only a country-rock send-up of Norman’s song Why Should the Devil (Have All the Good Music), but also mentioned Larry by name in the lyrics! But I digress. Of course, Larry Norman is generally given credit for popularizing the “one-way” sign, and also wrote and recorded a song by that title. Some fairly muscular rock and roll closed out Side One in the form of a Chris Christian-penned song titled One Way. I want you now to be my Lord as well as my Savior and I want to live my life to glorify you.’ God met me, found me, picked me up, cleaned me off and made me whole again. He will always take you back!’ So, I got on my knees in my beautiful home by the sea and cried out a prayer of repentance and I said, ‘Lord, I have sinned grievously against you. I remember my mother, she said, ‘Son, if ever at any time, you wander away from Jesus, he will always take you back.
I’m lost!’ I knew there was darkness inside. And yet, inside, I was so, so lost and in deep, deep despair because it was like, ‘Wait a minute! All this stuff is supposed to make me feel good! It’s not doin’ it.
“I’ve got the fancy-schmancy cars in the driveway, a beautiful wife, the hot tub, the whole nine yards. The walls covered with gold and platinum albums and a Grammy on my piano. “I’m living in a million dollar house in Malibu, overlooking the sea,” he recalled.
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