Let me be completely honest when I say that I had never heard of Charlie Peacock when the music director came in one afternoon during my senior year and said that he was going to add a track or two of Peacock’s into our rock rotation. I looked at him blankly, giving him an answer of something like, "You're the music director...you know our format...whatever works."
For my final semester before graduation – spring 1998 – I reluctantly added Program Director to my list of duties. The PD the previous fall had butted heads with the faculty advisor and therefore dropped all affiliation with the station. Perhaps a fitting way to end my four-year association with the station and the university in a role of such seniority, I instead chose a weekend shift as my three hour requirement and focused on training the directors that would take over that fall.
From what I recall, the song the music director chose seemed to fit our first three hour block of modern rock music (the more adult album alternative daypart) and while I liked it, I don't ever recall there being much interest elsewhere. No one I knew of called in demanding we play Struck Blind. It's been years since I heard the song or read the lyrics and most places I see online say the album is long out of print.
I also discovered that Peacock had been doing the music thing for a while, having released his first album back in 1984 and has been one of the most popular and well-respected artists on the contemporary Christian music scene. He continues recording and has released three albums since Strangelanguage.
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Struck Blind
(Douglas Kaine McKelvey/Charlie Peacock)
Charlie Peacock
From the album Strangelanguage
1996
[Lyrics not known]
