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Rez Band had not completely abandoned its hard rock sound, though. The next single, "Crimes" - sung by co-lead singer Wendi Kaiser - is a traditional headbanging Rez Band number about inner-city violence, a topic that band members and the Jesus People USA community know first-hand.
On REZ' follow-up to Hostage, the band jettisons much of the new wave, keyboard-driven musical stylings from that album in favor of the band's traditional hard rock sound. Glenn Kaiser takes over the majority of the songwriting once again, while his wife and co-lead singer Wendi Kaiser makes her most significant songwriting contributions here ...
Glenn Kaiser (born January 21, 1953) [1] is an American, Chicago-based Christian rock, Christian blues musician, singer, songwriter and pastor. He was the leader of Resurrection Band and is currently the leader of The Glenn Kaiser Band.
A double-CD set, XX Years Live was recorded in March of that same year at the Copernicus Center Theatre in Chicago, to celebrate 20 years of music ministry.The concert features at least one song from every REZ release, and in addition, Glenn Kaiser and his wife and co-lead singer, Wendi Kaiser, take a few minutes each to speak to the audience.
Civil Rites is also more forcefully evangelical than REZ' two prior releases. The band returns to issues of importance to its younger high-school-aged audience, like casual sex and its emotional aftermath (song "Players"), family turmoil ("In My Room"), and drug addiction—specifically crack cocaine ("Little Jeanie").
In addition, "Where Roses Grow" became a concert favorite among long-time Rez fans. Given the blues-oriented musical direction of Innocent Blood , the lyrics concern themselves primarily with issues of poverty ("Child of the Blues"), slavery ("80,000 Underground") the Devil ("Fiend or Foul") and the hope of Heaven ("Where Roses Grow").
Carmel High School’s Loreli Sokol performs during the 50th annual ISSMA State Marching Band Finals, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, at Lucas Oil Stadium. Thursday, Nov. 9 7:30 a.m.: Ticket office opens
After the longest break between studio albums, REZ returned with a blues-based hard rock/metal sound (closer to their 1978 release Awaiting Your Reply [1]) that would set the pattern for all future releases, and was also indicative of the musical direction lead singer Glenn Kaiser would take in his solo career.