And Mama Ruppe wanted to come off the road doesn’t seem to jive with Mama Ruppes previous posting (I can’t remember where from) that she now could go out on the road and stay for longer periods of time?!?! If she wanted to stay home, why would she say (or maybe it was her booking agent that said it) that she and Mr. Ruppe could stay out on the road for longer periods of time - which I took to mean they would take all the dates they could get.
Typical SG Spin!!!

I can’t recall having ever seen LordSong in a church setting. I have seen them in multiple-group events many times.

They do have a very laid-back demeanor on stage. I kind of like it. I can see how somebody who’s not a big fan of their style of music could wander from an attention standpoint during their show though.

Vocally, they have great voices.

There are some issues there though, largely due to the fact that Val is singing at the top of her range in trying to hit the high harmony. She hits her note the vast majority of the time. However, you can tell that she’s really having to push to do so. And though she may have the best lead voice of the sisters, she does not do a very good job of stage presence (with eyes often closed, especially when trying to hit her part). If you have to concentrate to hit your note, then close your eyes or do whatever it is you need to do. But you can’t do that over and over, because if you do, you lose your connection with the audience. Thus, it’s far more difficult to communicate the message of the lyric in the song.

And how do you go through a whole set and never let one member of the group lead a song (Heather)? She may have the lowest female voice in all of gospel music. It’s very good though. She’s quite solid singing the lower harmony part. But she was never featured. I can understand not featuring her much, but not at all. I don’t even recall her leading a chorus of a song.

Kim has a tremendous ear and is a great singer. She has a very nice voice as well. Put it all together and you have quite possibly the best alto in the Southern Gospel industry (if you consider LordSong Southern Gospel that is). She did a lot of emcee work, which I was pleased to see. It wasn’t necessarily good emcee work though…too much needless talking. I like feeling like I am getting to know the artist during the course of a show. Good emcees give you a glimpse of his/her personality. Kim just talked. She seems genuine though. It’s refreshing to see an artist step down to pray with people around the alter.

Michael does a great job on stuff that fits his voice. He’s adequate on stuff that doesn’t.

He did a good job at times with his emcee work, but there was just too much talking in the show, rambling conversation instead of creative lead-ins for the upcoming song. I like LordSong so much that it didn’t work my last nerve, but it was not good emcee work (and I’m sure there were some who didn’t like it). Of course, they don’t do a lot of church gigs. They’re usually with Lowry, so they don’t have to do a lot of emcee work.

They all seem supremely nice though. I look forward to seeing them again once they start doing more stuff that fits them, instead stuff that LordSong performed with Amber.

They have a project slated for release later this summer with just vocals and piano. That’s out of the box for LordSong, who has a progressive sound all its own. It will be interesting to see how that turns out.

Under His Wings was fine. I’ve heard it before. Kim did do a nice job of leading it. I didn’t see it as that big of a deal though.

I’d love to hear some more opinion on the new LordSong, something a little more objective. The post on this site was very pro-LordSong. I guess I was a little disappointed in some ways with what I saw. I just expected them to be much more polished based on having seen them with Lowry. Honestly though, maybe my expectations were a little too high.

I wish them the best. I’m sure they’ll only improve. Michael and Kim won’t stand for anything less.

This church, Grace Church of the Nazarene (located in North Nashville), is having this concert series and is doing it the right way. I’m guessing they’re getting artists to come without having to pay flats a lot of times. All of the concerts that I’ve been to there (Greater Vision, Perrys, LordSong) have been Sunday night gigs. The Perrys live 30 minutes up the street. Greater Vision lives only a few hours down I-40, and I wouldn’t doubt that LordSong was in town to work on their new project, which is being recorded in Nashville. So, with artists passing through or heading home, they’re seemingly just taking advantage of it. That’s smart. More churches should try to do it that way. If they did, they would be able to have a concert series just like this great one that Grace Church of the Nazarene has going on, and it wouldn’t cost them an arm and a leg.

DF