by David Bruce Murray | Dec 8, 2023 | News
NEWS NUGGETS Artist management company Straight Arrow announced the launch of a new label called Straight Arrow Records in partnership with New Day Distribution. Artists currently in queue to release projects on the new label include Todd Tilghman, Avenue, Right Road...
by James Hales | Dec 6, 2023 | LP Review, Reviews
We made it! This is my final article in this series on the Nelons. My intention was to review all their recordings up until Rex officially retired from the group, and “Peace Within the Walls” would be the final Nelons recording that Rex sang on. Although Rex is on...
by Sony Elise | Dec 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
If you find a love that’s tenderIf you find someone who’s trueThank the LordHe’s been doubly good to you ~Rich Mullins I write a lot about thanksgiving because, for most people, that is not their normal bent. We can receive praise all day long, but...
by David Bruce Murray | Dec 1, 2023 | News
In an email to ticketholders this afternoon, the National Quartet Convention (via iTickets) announced that seating for the 2024 event in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee will return to the center stage configuration mostly recently used in 2019. One slight difference from the...
by David Bruce Murray | Dec 1, 2023 | News
NEWS NUGGETS Poet Voices announced the addition of tenor vocalist, Jeff Snyder who is the Director of Worship at Valley Forge Freewill Baptist Church in Elizabethton, Tennessee. In the same press release, the group announced they are now recording for the Stow Town...
by James Hales | Nov 29, 2023 | LP Review, Reviews
After 2 solid years of consistency and renewed success, change boarded the Nelons bus once again as Charlotte departed the group to be with her husband, Greg Ritchie. Greg was the drummer for Jeff & Sheri Easter, and Charlotte joined with them to sing the third...
by Sony Elise | Nov 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
We are so blessed by the things You have done,The victories we’ve won, and what You’ve brought us through.We are so blessed; take what we have to bring.Take it all everything. Lord, we bring it to you.. If you think about it, the first couple lines of this...
by David Bruce Murray | Nov 24, 2023 | News
NEWS NUGGETS Legacy Five tenor Lee Black announced (via Facebook) he plans to release a solo CD and schedule some “Stories and Songs” solo dates in 2024. Jimmy Fortune and Joseph Habedank recently visited Centro De Rehabilitacion Cristo Transforma, a...
by James Hales | Nov 22, 2023 | LP Review, Reviews
“Glad You’re Here” was the first studio recording for the Nelons in 2 years. The group did not release a new studio album in 1995, but instead released a live recording and video entitled, “Hallelujah Live”. It contained a few songs from their 1994 “Triumphant”...
by David Bruce Murray | Nov 17, 2023 | News
NEWS NUGGETS Focus on the Family and Tyndale House Publishers announced the release of Lord, Help Me Pray for My Kids: 365 Heartfelt Prayers for Parents by Tony Wood. Wood is an A-list songwriter in Christian music circles with cuts by Joseph Habedank, Jason Crabb,...
by James Hales | Nov 15, 2023 | LP Review, Reviews
As we talked about in my last article, the Nelons released “A Promised Reunion” during the first half of 1994, and before the year was done, Todd Nelon would come off the road to settle into family life, and Kelly Benton would leave the group as well to pursue other...
by Sony Elise | Nov 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
When words are not enough to tell you of our love Listen to our hearts I’ve realized lately that “I love you” often sounds insufficient to express how I feel about the people I love. How much harder is it to tell my Savior how much I love Him!...