Release Year: 1986 Album Rank for Group: #10 of 15 Here’s a blurb: Double Take was the introduction to the gospel world of the first Gold City supergroup. With the addition of Mike LeFevre to Tim Riley, Ivan Parker, and Brian Free, one of the sharpest-sounding quartets in the genre’s history was born. That sharpness …
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Dec 08
Top 100: #33 A Cappella (Gaither Vocal Band)
Release Year: 2003 Album Rank for Group: #3 of 7 Here’s a blurb: I have nearly a dozen all-a cappella albums in my collection of southern and bluegrass gospel. But this is not a normal a cappella project. This is a cappella on steroids. With magnificent arrangements, huge high notes, and too many funky chords …
Dec 06
Top 100: #34 Going on With the Song (Kingdom Heirs)
Release Year: 2003 Album Rank for Group: #4 of 10 Here’s a blurb: The first major album released after the Kingdom Heirs’ long-time tenor, bass, and pianist departed, the appropriately-titled Going on With the Song was a clear message that the best was yet to come for the quartet. The Heirs made one of the …
Dec 01
Top 100: #35 Mississippi Live (Kingsmen)
Release Year: 1987 Album Rank for Group: #2 of 2 Here’s a blurb: The first Kingsmen CD I ever got was the double CD of Stand Up at Opryland and Mississippi Live. That lineup and sound stuck with me immediately, and those are still two of my favorite albums today. Mississippi Live has a couple …
Nov 30
Top 100: #36 Portrait (Gold City)
Release Year: 1988 Album Rank for Group: #11 of 15 Here’s a blurb: I don’t know if Portrait is among those cited by critics as Gold City’s most important albums, but it has always been one of my personal favorites, the best of the studio albums recorded by the 1980s supergroup. The quartet doesn’t sound …
Nov 22
Top 100: #37 The Answer (Collingsworth Family)
Release Year: 2009 Album Rank for Group: #2 of 3 Here’s a blurb: Those Collingsworth kids were suddenly all grown up on The Answer, their most mature and polished album up to that point. Previously, the family’s biggest songs were sung by their standard trio of Phil, Kim, and Brooklyn, but here they really begin …
Nov 21
Top 100: #38 This Time (Mark Trammell Trio)
Release Year: 2005 Album Rank for Group: #3 of 8 Here’s a blurb: The last recording by the original Mark Trammell Trio lineup contained the group’s strongest collection of songs up to that point. Trammell is featured on the album’s best ballads and does his usual fine job, but the uptempo songs are the best. …
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