Prime Mover (album)

Three years after AD has faded away, Kerry Livgren and Warren Ham had decided to come together once more and create one more album under the band's name, in order to fix up the financial debts that ended the group in the first place and to say one last goodbye for all the effort and work that the musicians had done. All the songs that were released on the album had been written by Kerry (except for I'll Follow You) prior to Prime Mover's departure to the Christian Music Marketplace.

Compared to some of AD's works prior to Prime Mover, everyone in the five man band had a position and a part. Lacking this, Livgren and Ham were left as a duo to create the music themselves. Warren Ham contributed his role as the lead vocalist, while Kerry played most of the instruments, which included guitars, bass, drums and keyboards. While most of the songs were intriguing, two of the tracks out the full nine stood out the most. Portrait II was a remake of Portrait (He Knew), a song released by Kansas on their 1977 album Point of Know Return, in which the lyrics have been redone to tell the story of Christ rather than before with Albert Einstein. The other track, T.G.B, is a song that was deemed by most critics as "A fine piece of hard and blues rock".

AllMusic gave the album three out of five stars and labeled it as a solid album, yet cheaply made and hastily recorded in studios. The review also claims that the album provided some of the best works that both Livgren and Ham have done together.[1]

All songs written by Kerry Livgren except where noted.

1. "Don't Pass Me By" – 4:24
2. "Fathers and Sons" – 4:02
3. "Portrait II" (Livgren, Steve Walsh) – 5:40
4. "Children of the Shadows" – 4:57
5. "Wandering Spirit" – 4:06
6. "I'll Follow You" – 3:58 (Michael Gleason)
7. "New Kind of Love" – 3:51
8. "One More Song" – 4:15
9. "T.G.B." – 5:59

A.D.

• Kerry Livgren – keyboards, guitars, bass, drum programming, backing vocals
• Warren Ham – lead vocals, backing vocals, harmonica, saxophones

Guest musicians

• Michael Gleason – backing vocals (6)
• Dean Heitkamp – backing vocals (6)

Production

• Kerry Livgren – producer, recording, mixing
• Glenn Meadows – mastering at Georgetown Masters (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Nick Newton – design
• Mark Fokol – photo illustrations