Lights from the Valley is the seventh album by the Canadian rock band Chilliwack, released in June 1978; the album marked the recording debut of Brian MacLeod with the band, while serving as the swan song for founding Chilliwack members Glenn Miller and Ross Turney.

[1] The tracks co-produced by Gilutin included two songs written by MacLeod and also two "outside songs" - the first (and it would prove only) non-original material ever to be recorded by Chilliwack since the band had been rebranded from "The Collectors" - : "Arms of Mary" and "In Love With a Look": "In Love With a Look" was a co-write by Ted Myers who'd fronted Glider a session group whose self-titled 1977 album release had been produced by Gilutin, while the 1975 original Sutherland Brothers version of "Arms of Mary" had enjoyed widespread international hit status while barely registering in North America.

The third intended version of Chilliwack's seventh album was issued in June 1978 under the title Lights from the Valley, a quote from "Arms of Mary" which track served as lead single: "Arms of Mary" would fail to become one of Chilliwack's most successful Canadian chart hits with a modest #49 peak, although the track would become the fourth Chilliwack single to rank on the Hot 100 in Billboard with its #67 peak outranking the band's three previous Hot 100 entries.

In fact the turmoil inherent in the album's convoluted recording history threatened to shut down the band: veteran guitarist Howard Froese was replaced by Brian MacLeod after the first attempt at Chilliwack's seventh album was rejected - although Froese would receive "special thanks" on the released Lights from the Valley album, citing background vocals and acoustic guitar - , and by the time of the release of Lights from the Valley Glenn Miller (bass) and Ross Turney (drums) - who had worked alongside Chilliwack's lead vocalist/ guitarist Bill Henderson since the Chilliwack forerunner the Collectors - had left the group [1] necessitating the recruitment of new members Skip Layton (drums) and Ab Bryant (bass) to perform with Henderson, Bowers and MacLeod in Chilliwack's live gigs,[3] and only Henderson, MacLeod and Bryant would remain with Chilliwack for the group's eighth album: the 1979 release Breakdown in Paradise.

In 2013, all of the Chilliwack albums on Mushroom were rereleased in CD format: the CD release of Lights from the Valley featured as bonus tracks "Mary Lou and Me" - the B-side to the 1977 single "Fly by Night" - and also the songwriting demo of "The Hardest Things to See" an intended track for Chilliwack's seventh album.