Good Arkansas Bluegrass Gospel
Went to a singing tonight at the http://www.maytownbaptist.org/. Heard these folks, http://www.thelarrynelsonfamily.com/thelarrynelsonfamily_004.htm
Pure and authentic gospel with many of the songs written by the family themselves.
I told them I drove down from near the Tennessee state line to hear them sing just NW of Bham, and made two requests; the Song about Momma and the one about Jacob's vision. They got both in for me right away; song Two and Number Seven.
I got emotional on both songs, the one about Momma especially.
These folks played three times in Childersburg, and once in Elba before hitting Maytown where the good folks there were taken with them.
Mart Gray, former Ex Dir of Alabama CBF, good friend of Annie Lucas Brown and now on a state library advisory board, was very favorably impressed as well.
I'm hoping maybe by the end of the year they will play somewhere in NE Alabama, maybe the new Desoto Park amphitheatre or the Rainsville Civic Center.
With proper promotion they'll sellout both venues; they're the real deal; one vocalist easily ranking with Gillian Welch. One fellow who has frequented the Grand Ole Opry since near birth said they are as good as anything he has ever seen at the Ryman, and his brother, a Kidney doctor west of the Mississippi concurs.
Here are the lyrics for Jacob's Vision
http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-songs-with-chords/Jacobs%20Vision.htm
Pure and authentic gospel with many of the songs written by the family themselves.
I told them I drove down from near the Tennessee state line to hear them sing just NW of Bham, and made two requests; the Song about Momma and the one about Jacob's vision. They got both in for me right away; song Two and Number Seven.
I got emotional on both songs, the one about Momma especially.
These folks played three times in Childersburg, and once in Elba before hitting Maytown where the good folks there were taken with them.
Mart Gray, former Ex Dir of Alabama CBF, good friend of Annie Lucas Brown and now on a state library advisory board, was very favorably impressed as well.
I'm hoping maybe by the end of the year they will play somewhere in NE Alabama, maybe the new Desoto Park amphitheatre or the Rainsville Civic Center.
With proper promotion they'll sellout both venues; they're the real deal; one vocalist easily ranking with Gillian Welch. One fellow who has frequented the Grand Ole Opry since near birth said they are as good as anything he has ever seen at the Ryman, and his brother, a Kidney doctor west of the Mississippi concurs.
Here are the lyrics for Jacob's Vision
http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-songs-with-chords/Jacobs%20Vision.htm
posted by foxofbama | 7:13 PM
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I hope the folks at Highland Hills BC in Macon Ga will have them over. The preacher there, Jim Dant has written eloquently about the Resurrection Faith the Textile Village that shaped him.
These folks are the incarnation of such a faith community.
Sounds great. We (Union County Historical Society) are having a "Mountain Gospel Convention" in May. We'll have five stages, one with bluegrass gospel. Another will feature the old time shaped note convention singing. We can't afford to pay, so I'm sure these folks wouldn't be available.
GMM:
Give me some contact info. Maybe we can coordinate something.
These folks are super. If some churches in the area can come together to have them do a singing, they may be able to satellite over to your stage at very reasonable or no expense if your local churches will take advantage of the blessing these folks provide and take care of expenses.
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