News & Updates
Chagall Guevara Facebook Page
March 22nd, 2013: Norvin Coblentz has started a surprisingly active Chagall Guevara Facebook page. There you will find a set of Chagall Guevara concert photos from a performance in Birmingham, AL in June 1991. The photos are courtesy of Joe Posey. Thanks to Joe, and thanks to Norvin for the video shout-out to this site!
Steve Taylor and the Perfect Foil Also Playing SoulFest 2013
February 17th, 2013: Staff researcher Josh Rude writes to report that Steve Taylor and the Perfect Foil have officially been announced as performers at SoulFest 2013. SoulFest 2013 will take place over July 31st through August 3rd in Gilford, New Hampshire. The SoulFest web site hasn't been updated yet--this news comes from their official Facebook. In addition, the Facebook post brings us a new official picture of the group, seen above.
Steve Taylor New Band Name & Album Information... And Performing Live At Creation 2013?
February 5th, 2013: Honorary site intern Ben Newsum has once again provided updates regarding the ever-forthcoming new album by the band that is now called Steve Taylor and the Perfect Foil. Steve discusses the project in this April 2012 interview with Jeffrey Overstreet. An excerpt:
"I got so frustrated when I felt like Blue Like Jazz was failing, that out of creative frustration I ended up going into the studio with Peter Furler, and then John Painter (of Fleming and John), and then Jimmy Abegg, who's a longtime friend, guitarist, photographer and visual artist. And we just started recording. Peter had written some music ideas, and I love his melodies. We worked up the songs as a band, then I added lyrics. We were about a month away from having something finished when the Kickstarter campaign started, and it was like, "Oh, man ... we're making a movie." And it's just been on hold for the last 18 months, because finishing the movie has taken up all my time.
"That's one thing I'll do once things settle down--get back together with the guys and finish that project up."
Also reported by Josh Rude, Steve Taylor and the Perfect Foil have indeed released their first single, titled "A Life Preserved", as part of the Blue Like Jazz soundtrack. It's available for a measly buck on Amazon, iTunes, and probably a bazillion other places.
Ben Newsum further reports that there is an official remix of "A Life Preserved", available in Paste Magazine's mPlayer feature for Issue 75 (see the music player at the top of the screen). If you're not a subscriber, you can sign up for a free week trial, during which time a download of the remix will also be available for free.
Even more exciting is the appearance of Steve's name in the list of Main Stage performers at Creation 2013, happening the last week of June! This bodes well for a release of that new album in the next few months. Is Steve really pulling his music career out of mothballs? Will this new material have the same edge he honed throughout the 80's and 90's, culminating in Chagall Guevara and Squint? This long-suffering fan site maintainer hopes so...
Steve Taylor Has Recorded A New Album
November 22nd, 2011: Proving that Sock Heaven has its finger on the pulse of Steve's music career, here is a four-month-old BeliefNet interview with Peter Furler in which he reveals that Steve has sung lead vocals on an album to be released. The other members of the group are Peter, John Mark Painter, and Jimmy Abegg, and Peter refers to the group as Steve Taylor and Some Other Band. Thanks go to Ben Newsum for being our crack research staff.
Peter Furler: I was approached by Steve Taylor. We've written over a hundred songs together for the Newsboys. He knew I had a bunch of stuff left over, stuff that hadn't made it on to other records. So he came and said, "What are you going to do with it?" And I said, "I don't know? What do you want to do?" He goes, "Maybe we should do something" and I said, "Well I'll do something as long as I don't have to sing because I don't want to do a solo record. If you sing, we'll do it." So he goes, "Okay." We went in the studio and put a band together. It was Jimmy Abegg on guitar, John Painter on bass, myself just as the drummer and Steve as the lead singer. We made a record. It's not out yet. It's brilliant. It's a fantastic record and it's hopefully coming out this year or early next year. It got put on hold because of Steve (directing) the Blue Like Jazz movie.
Recent Site Updates
July 25th, 2012: Two new items in the press section.
- Music Interviews:
Steve Taylor
Cornerstone Magazine, Q1-Q2(?) 1983 - Review: Liver
Charisma & Christian Life, July 1995
July 5th, 2012: Four new items in the press section.
- Steve Taylor's
Sarcasm Deserves Serious Scrutiny
Charisma, July 1984 - Review:
Meltdown
Christian Herald, September 1984 - Review: On The
Fritz
MusicLine, July 1985 - Review: I Predict
A Clone
Cornerstone Magazine, Q2(?) 1994
June 26th, 2012: Five new items in the press section.
- Review: I Want To Be
A Clone
Cornerstone Magazine, 1983 - Interviews With
Cornerstone '84 Artists
Cornerstone Magazine, Q1(?) 1984 - Review:
Limelight
MusicLine, March 1986 - Steve Taylor: The U
Interview
U Magazine, April/May 1998 - CCM Hall of Fame: Steve
Taylor
CCM Magazine, August 2005
October 24th, 2011: Five new items in the press section.
- Gospel Lectern
Billboard, December 21, 1985 - The Flying
Chicken, The Monkey Temple, The Cotton Castle
Campus Life, March 1994 - Steve Taylor
New Music Guide, Spring 1995 - Whatever
Happened to Steve?
ChristianityToday.com, March 28, 2005 - Christian Rock
Lifers #2: Steve Taylor
Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside The Phenomenon Of Christian Rock, May 2006
August 1st, 2011: Sadly, there's a new item in the Archived Web Sites section of this site. Andrew D. Taylor first posted QRSTUV, The Quantitative Roland Stephen Taylor Ubiquitous Volume, to Usenet in late 1994, making it the first Steve Taylor Internet resource. It later morphed into a web site which disappeared from the Internet in the last few months. It is now archived here.
August 8th, 2008: Five new items in the press section. Thanks to Rob Marshall for these.
- Review: I Want To Be A
Clone
Buzz Magazine (England), November 1983 - Review: Meltdown
The Houston Post, March 16th, 1984 - Sparrow Flies High With
Rock Sermons
Los Angeles Times, April 1st, 1984 - Mixing Evangelism,
Entertainment
Rocky Mountain News, May 11th, 1984 - Steve Taylor: Keep
An Eye On Him
The Denver Post, May 13th, 1984
Update August 8th, 2008: "Meltdown" link below has been fixed.
August 7th, 2008: One new item in the press section:
- Meltdown Press Release
April 1st, 1984
July 31st, 2008: One new item in the press section:
- Chagall Guevara
Creem, June-July 1991
July 19th, 2008: One new item in the press section:
- I Predict: Steve Taylor's
Next Album
Harvest Rock Syndicate, Winter 1987
Older Sock Heaven news and updates can be found in the news archive.

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