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<\/a><\/p>\nHis debut album, Brother of the Son<\/i>, featured a wonderful country song with a powerful message, No Condemnation<\/a><\/i>, which I played quite a bit despite my general dislike for country music. In fact, when it was overshadowed by later work I still attempted to get it on the air, because I thought the message important. However, few remembered it for long after more songs were released.<\/p>\n His second album, Forgiven<\/i>, had a wonderful song which got a lot of initial airplay, a live resurrection day story from Peter’s perspective entitled He’s Alive<\/a><\/i>, which really was better than anything he’d done already. It climbed our charts quickly.<\/p>\n Then for no apparent reason, listeners turned away from it, wanting to hear a different song, the last song on the album, Adam, Where Are You?<\/a><\/i>. It was stylistically similar, focusing on the Garden of Eden and the Fall.<\/p>\n He released several other excellent songs, usually similar in style to these, including the title song of his next album Got to Tell Someone<\/a><\/i>, and of the following album The Traveler<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n All of those songs still move me, some to tears.<\/p>\n Don continued to record and sing for years; he released a live concert album in 2016. I never heard anything else from him, though, as I was no longer connected to the CCM scene.<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n The series to this point has included:<\/p>\n This is mark Joseph “young” blog entry #315, on the subject of Don Francisco Alive. We mentioned previously (in connection with Dallas Holm) that sometimes an artist’s work becomes overshadowed by a single song. This happened to Don Francisco twice, despite having quite a significant body of valuable material apart from that. His debut album, … Continue reading #315: Don Francisco Alive<\/span> \n