If I remember correctly, I seem to recall Avery saying something a long time ago to the effect that he had been the pianist for a group that had once played NQC. Avery (or anybody who knows), if I’m remembering all that correctly, what group did you play with?

I am genuinely curious about a few things:

1. What are your music credentials? You imply that you have the ability to detect perfect pitch and to determine whether or not someone is “qualified” to sing a certain song, etc… Which groups have asked you to audition or desired to hire you? Surely there must be several that are rivaling for your remarkable talent.

2. Are you a born-again believer? Many of your recent comments show very little, if any, spiritual perception. I can understand and respect some of your comments with regard to the talent and industry end of SG, but you seem to be completely unable to relate to the ministry end. Very recently, I detect a sort of “mocking” of the spiritual aspect of the music which causes me to think that perhaps you do not personally know the One about whom these songs are sung.

3. Why the sudden change in your attitude toward Joseph Habedank of the Perrys. For quite some time, you sang his praises; but beginning with his car wreck, then bashing his song-writing ability on the Come Thirsty project, and now the major criticism of his move to lead… just curious, what happened there to cause you to do the Jekyll and Hyde thing?

Why would you take AVFL’s word for it? Listen for yourself and decide.
After all, what group does Doug, a.k.a. “Avery” sing with and what are his credentials? Just curious…

Actually, they did a terrific job. Their group blend is better than it was before.

What’s great about this report, Douglas is that we get to hear through words what the music was like. For a long time I’ve ownder how the new Mercy’s Mark would sound and apparently not very good. I’ve wondered how the Perrys would do without Loren Harris. Again, not very well (and that really disappoints me). My admiration for the Booth’s was affirmed and my disdain for that particular flavor of ice cream shows that I’m really not old enough to really enjoy it. Thank Goodness.

Good to know that maybe Gold City is back and that Paid In Full (in an earlier post) is as good as I thought they were.

I thank you and most reading this will thank you.

Let’s just accept as a fact that they had decided to do the song. McCray introduces it by referring to Signature Sound as “the hottest thing in Gospel music today.” From anyone else, that would be a compliment; from McCray, it was really something, because at the time Ernie was forming Signature Sound, the Dove Brothers were “the hottest thing in Gospel music.”

Now they’re trying to reinvent themselves with new songs and progressive arrangements, and to me it seemed that he was acknowledging that the torch of “most exciting group” had been passed on–but he said it in a subtle, and classy, way.

Another note: I just can’t listen to the Perry’s sing “Gawd Woks tha Daahrk Heeeeee-illllllsss”…tiresome.

My last point: Is anyone else completely tired of the Dove Brothers “Get Away Jordan” and “Didn’t It Rain”???? ENOUGH ALREADY. I used to really enjoy McCray’s voice, but that was when I could make out the lyrics he was singing. And try though I might, I can’t make out most of the lyrics in either song. Please, please, please…something new (and easy to understand) would be nice. (Which really goes for all the groups - why would I want to hear the Hoppers do “Shoutin’ Time” again? Or Talley Trio do “The Healer”? I’ve paid money to hear them before; let’s hear the new stuff!)