This falls in the rarest of rare category. Following his death, Mark s friends commissioned a limited number of cd-r copies of Mark s first album. This was an authorized release overseen by Mark s official label, Fingerprint Records. This is one of those rare official copies. Includes all of Setting Yesterday Free and 5 live tracks. Please see photos for more information.
Infinity Plus Three
Setting Yesterday Free
Spirit Records V-1111 1972 / Fingerprint/Silhouette Records 1998
Mark s first recording, with a folk band he formed after his conversion to Christianity around the time he finished high school and entered college. Mark played with rock and R B bands in high school, and had a rock band for a while in college in addition to Infinity Plus Three. Mark wrote six songs contributed guitar, bass, harmonica, and vocals and co-produced with Doug Milheim. While this release may sound amateurish 30-plus years later, it was similar in quality to most Jesus music of the period, and Mark s lyrics reveal an interest in metaphor, a capacity for introspection, and a careful choice of words. In the liner notes to Appalachian Melody, Mark recounted that not long after Setting Yesterday Free was released, I was getting tired of the stereotypes surrounding Christian music, so I left the group and began performing solo. It was not the last time he would make such a decision.
Songs: All My Trials/Life s Ocean/You/Morning Light/Memory/Friends/Presence of the Lord/Second Best Friend/Not Alone/A Place Inside/Love
The 1998 CD reissue on Fingerprint Records includes the following bonus live tracks: Washed to the Sea/Nothing Is Bothering Me/With Broken Wings/Rise from the Ruins
