About Us

The Christian Music Archive is a fan based web page dedicated to documenting the history of Christian music.  We call ourselves the ultimated Christian music fan site because our content is submitted by fans such as yourself.

You might be asking yourself, "How is the Christian Music Archive different from all those other music sites?" We are music archivists. In other words, we are collecting, organizing, preserving, and providing access to Christian music's history. Currently, we focus on collecting information about artists and albums from the 1960s through the 1990s.  That doesn't mean you won't find information from the 21st century here, but that's just not our primary focus right now.

We rely on the expertise and passion of our users to help drive the site.  Tell us what you are missing. Tell us what you want to see.  Click the feedback tab.  Many of the CMA features are a direct result of a user's suggestion.

This site is always evolving and we are constantly adding new features. On March 10, 2011, we unveiled the new contribution wizard to help you more easily add albums. We also unveiled our new look.

Keeping a site like this up and running costs money. And we haven't been successful at cultivating our money tree. So we rely on your contributions and advertisers to fund the site.

Thank you for being interested in who we are. And thank you for your support!

Dave Maurer
Founder / Chief Archivist
Dave has been actively involved in the Christian music industry since 1983. He has worked as a radio station disk jockey, a concert promoter, an artist manager, and in a music marketing company. Now he works as an accountant in a non-music field, but Christian music is still a passion. Dave lives in Newberg, OR with his wife in their newly purchased home! Dave has an eclectic music taste, but really enjoys music from the 80s, particularly Steve Taylor, Phil Keaggy, PFR, and Randy Stonehill. 

Paul Gibson
Christian Music Archive Radio host
Paul is our newest team member, and voices our daily Christian Music Archive Radio show. He is a former DJ at Power FM in Dallas and Power 103 in Abilene Texas. Currently, Paul is the man behind the Christian Rock 20, a weekly syndicated program featuring today's top rock songs. High on Paul's playlist are Demon Hunter, Steve Taylor, Project 86, House of Heroes and Family Force 5. 

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We are pleased to provide many of the albums you find on our pages for sale.
To visit our store, click here.

Our store is hosted by MusicStack.

The Christian Music Archive was begin in 1999 as a hand coded HTML web page project by Dave Maurer. He had been working as the business manager for a small music marketing firm when a co-worker suggested he document his passion for reading album credits and researching studio musicians involvement in music.

For nearly three years, every page on the Archive was hand coded, every link, every image. This was very time consuming.  So Dave hired Matt Butcher to write a custom database to ease the entry of content.  Version 2.0 was born in 2002.

During the next 5 years, several changes occured on the web. Social Networks became the buzz word. Open Source applications were developed. High speed internet access to the masses became the norm.  It became evident that the custom database was becoming antiquated and hard to update. So after a year of research, Dave and Matt decided to migrate the site to the Drupal content management system.

After another year of work, CMA V3.0 was born, utilizing the modular Drupal engine.  Josh McKenney was hired to help transfer data and basic functionality from the original custom database, but the site remained relatively unchanged in operation.

On March 10th, 2011, version 3.1 was launched, featuring a new contribution wizard bar. And thanks to Matt Strieby, the first visual redesign in our history was introduced.

It is the Christian Music Archive's strict policy to respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that your intellectual property has been infringed upon, please provide us with the following information:

1. Contact information: We need your name, address, phone number, and email address.
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3. A description of the copyrighted work(s) or intellectual property that you claim has been infringed.
4. The page web address (URL) and/or Artist, Album, or Label name on the Christian Music Archive where the material in question is located.
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6. A statement made by you which states the disputed use of copyrighted material and adequately documents your ownership of the materials in question.
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8. Please include a signature (physical or electronic) of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner.
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10. Send your copyright infringement claim using the email form here. (be sure to include DMCA Copyright Notice in the subject line) or by United States Postal Service to Christian Music Archive, Attn: Copyright Department, PO Box 903, Newberg, OR 97132.