by David Bruce Murray | Jan 9, 2017 | News
Last Week’s Happenings Southern Sound of Nashville announced they are retiring from full-time travel. They will fulfill a few dates in 2017 before retiring permanently. The April Potter Agency announced they now represent Larry, Steve, & Rudy Gatlin...
by Sony Elise | Jan 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
“That which is has already been, and what is to be has already been; and God requires an account of what is past” (Ecclesiastes 3:15). I feel like, in many churches, more emphasis is placed on God’s forgiveness as opposed to His holiness. I am so...
by David Bruce Murray | Jan 7, 2017 | CD Reviews, Reviews
Producer: Danny Crawford Song Titles: Changed; Just Inside The Gate; Haven Of Grace; No Stone To Throw; You Can Use Me; Sinner’s Prayer; Closer To Him; God Doesn’t Listen To The Odds; Only Little Lamb; Tell The Mountain (About Your God); That Moment; From...
by David Bruce Murray | Jan 6, 2017 | Streaming Video
It’s been almost three and half years since the Women Of Homecoming products were released in 2013, the most recent “group of folks in a room singing to each other” items in the Gaither Gospel Series. After a long wait, there’s a new pair...
by David Bruce Murray | Jan 5, 2017 | CD Reviews, Reviews
Label: Skyland Records Song Titles: I’m Free Again; Be Still And Know; Those Memories Of You (Ringing Of The Hammer); Heaven Knows; Lord Of The Raging Sea; Speak Lord; He’s In Control; I’ll Shout And Shine; Take Me To Him; More Than Amazing; Every...
by David Bruce Murray | Jan 3, 2017 | CD Reviews, Reviews
Label: Horizon Records Producer: Lauren Talley Song Titles: I Believe (featuring Brian Free & Assurance); The Cradle, The Cross And The Crown; I Am Not Ashamed; I Hear A Song (featuring Gordon Mote); Everything (featuring Cindy Morgan); The God Who Never Changes;...
by David Bruce Murray | Jan 2, 2017 | News
Last Week’s Happenings The Dixie Melody Boys announced that Willie Sawrey has officially joined the group to sing baritone. Sawrey had been filling in while the group auditioned potential new baritone singers after the departure of Aaron Dishman in August....
by David Bruce Murray | Dec 27, 2016 | Superlatives
CDs The following list includes all of the CDs released in 2016 that I rated at 5 Stars (“excellent”) and 4 1/2 Stars (“very good”). The six below are the cream of 2016’s crop. Rated 5 Stars 1. Jeff Collins – The Keys To Christmas...
by David Bruce Murray | Dec 12, 2016 | CD Reviews, Mega Review, Reviews
Label: Gaither Gospel Series Producer: Jason Webb Song Titles: That Says It All (Mosie Lister); Between Here And Heaven (featuring Restless Heart) (Gina Boe, Tony Wood, Joseph Habedank); Stop The Storm (Rebecca Isaacs Bowman, Donya Isaacs Yeary, Joseph Habedank); Come...
by David Bruce Murray | May 26, 2016 | Interviews
Russell Mauldin’s Ready To Sing (Brentwood-Benson Music Publications) series of choral books has sold more than any other choral book series in the Christian market (and probably in the overall choral market as well). In Part 1 of our interview yesterday,...
by David Bruce Murray | May 25, 2016 | Interviews
If you’re a Southern Gospel fan who reads production credits, you may occasionally see Russell Mauldin’s name listed as an arranger. You’re even more likely to be familiar with his work if you sing in a church choir. I recently contacted Russell to...
by David Bruce Murray | Mar 4, 2016 | History
Because my education background is in music theory, I’ve always been interested in “I Know,” Southern Gospel’s most popular song in 1971. There aren’t many songs that manage to change keys several times, while only using three chords....
