When building these Essential Playlists (an 80-minute limit of songs to introduce someone to a group), there was not a more difficult task than coming up with a playlist for the Cathedral Quartet. With 35 years of legendary music to choose from, I did a lot of adding, deleting, and shuffling to come up with …
Tag: Cathedrals
Apr 18
Top 100: #1 Symphony of Praise (Cathedrals)
Release Year: 1987 Album Rank for Group: #1 of 13 Here’s a blurb: Could it be any other? The suspense has been killing you, right? I doubt it’s any sort of surprise to you that Symphony of Praise is my favorite album of all time. I’ve said so on numerous occasions in various places online. It’s …
Apr 12
Top 100: #3 Travelin’ Live (Cathedrals)
Release Year: 1986 Album Rank for Group: #2 of 13 Here’s a blurb: I never saw the Cathedrals live (I didn’t even really know who they were until well after they had retired), so live albums and videos are the only ways that I can know in a small way what it was like to …
Feb 21
Top 100: #15 A Farewell Celebration (Cathedrals)
Release Year: 1999 Album Rank for Group: #3 of 13 Here’s a blurb: This was the first southern gospel CD I ever bought, and it was only six or seven years ago. If you’re going to get to the party late, you might as well get there in style, and that’s what I did getting …
Dec 21
Top 100: #27 I’ve Just Started Living! (Cathedrals)
Release Year: 1989 Album Rank for Group: #4 of 13 Here’s a blurb: Some say Danny Funderburk had lost some steam by the time his last major album with the Cathedrals was recorded. Well, you could’ve fooled me, because it contains a couple of my favorite of his performances, including the exciting title track. The …
Nov 10
Top 100: #44 Goin’ in Style (Cathedrals)
Release Year: 1988 Album Rank for Group: #5 of 13 Here’s a blurb: The follow-up to the Cathedrals’ landmark Symphony of Praise recording was this one, which was also the last before Gerald Wolfe left for his solo career. Like the album before it, Goin’ in Style was produced by Lari Goss, but this one …
Oct 28
Top 100: #52 Master Builder (Cathedrals)
Release Year: 1986 Album Rank for Group: #6 of 13 Here’s a blurb: Master Builder finds the Cathedrals in the middle of their glory days, but in one way, it was the end of an era. It was the last of a string of studio projects produced by Bill Gaither; the quartet would famously call …
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