Release Year: 2010 Album Rank for Group: #4 of 8 Here’s a blurb: When the Mark Trammell Trio became a quartet in early 2010, many eagerly awaited their first main label album, hoping it would blow them away. Patience, my friends. This album was not a game-changer, but it is a very enjoyable recording overall, …
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Nov 04
Top 100: #47 Strong in the Strength (Legacy Five)
Release Year: 1999 Album Rank for Group: #1 of 2 Here’s a blurb: Legacy Five’s smash hit debut showed the southern gospel world that Scott Fowler and Roger Bennett weren’t just going to let the Cathedrals name carry them into the next decade. Their quartet would wildly succeed on its own merits. While L5 has …
Nov 03
Top 100: #48 The King Came Down (Greater Vision)
Release Year: 1993 Album Rank for Group: #8 of 13 Here’s a blurb: In its third year of existence, Greater Vision upped the ante a bit in terms of power songs and arrangements on The King Came Down. There are some fairly lush orchestrations here, but it still retains a measure of that piano-and-strings simplicity …
Nov 02
Top 100: #49 Give Me the Mountain (Kingdom Heirs)
Release Year: 2005 Album Rank for Group: #6 of 10 Here’s a blurb: Give Me the Mountain contains the first Kingdom Heirs song I ever heard, “I Don’t Wanna Go Back”. I was hooked after the first chorus. This is the first major label recording after Billy Hodges joined Arthur Rice, Jeff Chapman, and Steve …
Nov 01
Top 100: #50 Southern Classics (Gaither Vocal Band)
Release Year: 1993 Album Rank for Group: #5 of 7 Here’s a blurb: Southern Classics is the album that launched the Gaither Vocal Band into the southern gospel arena to stay. It was the only southern gospel album recorded by the stellar, but short-lived, lineup of Bill Gaither, Mark Lowry, Michael English, and Terry Franklin. …
Oct 31
Top 100: #51 He Lives in Me (Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver)
Release Year: 2006 Album Rank for Group: #3 of 7 Here’s a blurb: He Lives in Me is vocally the best-sounding gospel album in the extensive discography of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. The two a cappella numbers (see “Knock my socks off”) were both written by band members. The majority of the songs are convention-style …
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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