Philip Tyler Keaggy (born March 23, 1951 in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist who has released more than 55 albums and contributed to many more recordings in both the contemporary Christian music and mainstream markets. He is a seven-time recipient of the GMA Dove Award for Instrumental Album of the Year, and was twice nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album. He has frequently been listed as one of the world's top-two "finger-style" and "finger-picking" guitarists by Guitar Player Magazine readers' polls, and due to his complex and virtuosic playing, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
He played in several bands in Ohio in the mid-1960s and eventually formed the band Glass Harp with friend John Sferra in 1968. He became a Christian shortly after his mother's death around Valentine's Day of 1970 and his newfound faith infused all three of the Glass Harp recordings on Decca Records. He left the group in August of 1972 to embark on a solo career (although he has since reunited with Glass Harp for several concerts and recording projects). He recorded his first solo album What A Day in 1973, but it wasn't released until June of 1974 . During that period, he married his wife Bernadette and toured with Love Song. His next solo album, Love Broke Thru, didn't arrive until two years later in 1976. During that time, he toured and recorded with other Jesus Music pioneers such as 2nd Chapter of Acts, Honeytree and Paul Clark & Friends. Over the coming decades, Keaggy would continue to record and tour, as well as contributing his unmistakable guitar work to hundreds of recordings.
Keaggy also first started collaborating with fellow CCM singer - songwriter and long-time friend Randy Stonehill in the mid-1970s, often appearing in each other's albums either as singing vocal duets, songwriting or both and have performed in the studio and in live concert performances.
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Discography
Please note: Phil Keaggy's discography is quite extensive so only a few albums will be spotlighted in articles.
with Glass Harp:
Glass Harp (1970)
Synergy (1971)
It Makes Me Glad (1972)
Song in the Air (1978) (compilation album)
Live at Carnegie Hall (1997)
Strings Attached - Live (2001) (with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra)
Hourglass (2003)
Stark Raving Jams: Recorded Live 1970 -2003 (2004)
Live at the Beachland Ballroom 11.01.08 (2010)
Solo vocal recordings
Phil Keaggy and Sunday's Child (1988)
Find Me in These Fields (1990)
Revelator (EP) (1993)
Crimson and Blue (1993)/Blue (1994)
True Believe (1995)
1970 - 1995: Time Volume 1 (1995) (compilation album)
1970 - 1995: Time Volume 2 (1995) (compilation album)
Phil Keaggy (1998)
An Angel's Christmas: Carols Performed on Acoustic Guitar (1999)
Zion (2000)
Inseparable (2000)
Uncle Duke (2000)
Special Occasions (2003)
It's Personal: Phil Keaggy sings the poetry of Keith Moore (2004)
Dream Again (2006)
Happy Valentine's Day (2007)
A Peaceful Collection: Songs of Rest for the Heart (2008)
Welcome Inn: A Phil Keaggy Christmas (2009)
A Solo Acoustic Evening with Phil Keaggy in Concert (2009) (CD/DVD)
Live from Kegworth Studio (2011)
The Cover of Love (2012)
Southern Girls - Music from the Motion Picture (2015)
All at Once (2016)/Fearless Love (2020)
Legacy (2024) (3 CD/7 LP boxed set)
Solo instrumental recordings
The Wind and the Wheat (1987)
Beyond Nature (1991)
Acoustic Sketches (1996)
220 (1996)
On the Fly (1997)
Phil Keaggy's Premium Jams (1999)
Music to Paint By: Electric Blue (1999)
Music to Paint By: Splash (1999)
Music to Paint By: Still Life (1999)
Music to Paint By: Brushstrokes (1999)
Lights of Madrid (2000)
Cinemascapes (2001)
In the Quiet Hours (2001)
HymnSongs (2002)
Freehand (Acoustic Sketches II) (2003)
Jammed! (2006)
Roundabout (2006) (live album)
The Song Within (2007)
Phantasmagorical: Master & Musician 2 (2008)
Alternate Tunings (Fingerstyle Guitar Solos) (2014)
Collaboration recordings/projects
Invention (1997) (with Scott Denté and Wes King)
Majesty & Wonder: An Instrumental Christmas (1999) (with the London Festival
 Orchestra)
Uncut Gems (2003) (with Muriel Anderson and special guest Stanley Jordan)
Together Live (2005) (with Randy Stonehill)
Two of Us: Groovemasters Vol. 10 (2006) (with Mike Pachelli)
Acoustic Cafe (2007) (credited as Phil Keaggy and Friends)
Mystery Highway (2009) (with Randy Stonehill)
FRIO Suite (2009) (with Jeff Johnson)
Inter-Dimensional Traveler (2010) (credited as The Phil Keaggy Trio with Jack
Giering and John Sferra)
Songs for Israel (2010) (live album with Randy Stonehill, Bob Bennett and Buck
Storm)
Numen (2011) (with Kyle Jones)
Cosmic Rumpus (2012) (credited as The Phil Keaggy Trio with Jack Giering and
John Sferra)
WaterSky (2012) (with Jeff Johnson)
Infinity Unleashed (2013) (credited as The Phil Keaggy Trio with Jack Giering and
John Sferra)
Lighting Catcher (2018) (as part of the band Shinbone)
Rockin' Comedy Christmas Show (2018) (with Paul Aldrich and Ken Davis)
The Bucket List (2019) (with Jerry Marotta and Tony Levin)
Cappadocia (2019) (with Jeff Johnson)
Illumination (2019) (with Rex Paul)