Dave's Top Eight

1. Jerry Reed...Revisited by Darrell Toney (reviewed 6/07) (5 Stars)
2. Sounds Like Sunday by Janet Paschal (reviewed 5/07) (5 Stars)
3. True To The Call by Kingdom Heirs (reviewed 3/07) (4 1/2 Stars)
4. Revival by Gold City (reviewed 10/06) (4 1/2 Stars)
5. Get Away Jordan by Ernie Haase & Signature Sound (reviewed 2/07) (4 1/2 Stars)
6. Breakin' Chains by Three Bridges (reviewed 5/07) (4 1/2 Stars)
7. Big Sky by The Isaacs (reviewed 4/07)
8. Skywriting by Mercy's Well (reviewed 7/07)

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July 3, 2005

It's Ballot Time

Click over to Sgnscoops.com to vote in the Diamond Awards this year. The deadline for voting is July 8, but you can vote online.

If you are a Singing News subscriber, you have until July 15 to get your ballot to them...the ballot doesn't say "postmarked by," it says "must be in" their office...so for all practical purposes, you need to vote and drop that in the mail by July 8 if you haven't already done so.

Who got my votes?

Diamond Awards
1. JD SUMNER LIVING LEGEND AWARD - Chris Freeman (I'm not a huge fan of Freeman's singing style, but she definitely has all the characteristics of a living legend. All the other nominees are deserving as well, but all the others have been widely recognized in the past. Because of that fact, Freeman is the most appropriate choice for this award, IMO. We've recognized Southern Gospel's "golden age" of artists over and over for years now. It's high time to start recognizing some from our "silver age.")
2. INSTRUMENTALIST - Channing Eleton
3. GROUP - The Crabb Family (This has been their year...no doubt about that.)
4. CHRISTIAN COMEDIAN - Mark Lowry
5. TRIO - Greater Vision
6. BLUEGRASS ARTIST - Jeff and Sheri Easter (I voted for them hoping they'd win and in doing so, create an uproar, because they are NOT bluegrass artists by any stretch of the imagination. They might do a bluegrass song from time to time, but they are firmly in the country genre by any reasonable estimate.)
7. DUET - The McCraes (It's interesting that there are more well known comedians connected to SG than there are duet acts. There's some genuine unknowns in contention for this award.)
8. SUNRISE - Mercy's Mark Quartet
9. SOLOIST - Mark Bishop
10. WEBSITE - Sogospelnews.com (Now really...who did you THINK I was going to vote for in this category? :o))
11. MALE VOCALIST - Guy Penrod
12. VIDEO - Walk The Talk
13. FEMALE VOCALIST - Lauren Talley
14. SONG - "Even In The Valley"
15. SONGWRITER - Kyla Rowland (I'm tired of seeing this category dominated by well known artists. Not that they don't deserve recognition for their skills, but so many good songs are written by songwriters who aren't part of a major traveling group.)
16. ALBUM - Driven

Singing News Fan Awards
1. SYNDICATED RADIO - Gospel Greats
2. LARGE DJ - Ken Hicks of WUSY (carrying on my tradition of voting for any man who is secure enough in his masculinity to work for a station called "wussy" :o))
3. MEDIUM DJ - Jerry Edgil of WBTG (carrying on my tradition of voting for the DJ with the most unusual name)
4. SMALL DJ - Beecher Hyde of WAVU (see Medium DJ comment)
5. MALE SINGER - Arthur Rice
6. FEMALE SINGER - Susan Whisnant
7. YOUNG ARTIST - Eric Phillips
8. HORIZON INDIVIDUAL - Josh Feemster
9. HORIZON GROUP - Mercy's Mark
10. FIRST TENOR - David Sutton
11. LEAD SINGER - Arthur Rice
12. BARITONE - Mark Trammell
13. BASS - Eric Bennett
14. ALTO - Debra Talley
15. SOPRANO - Charlotte Ritchie
16. SOLOIST - Mark Bishop
17. TRIO - Greater Vision
18. MIXED QUARTET - Crabb Family
19. MALE QUARTET - Triumphant
20. PIANIST - Channing Eleton
21. MUSICIAN - Tim Surrett
22. BAND - Gold City
23. VIDEO - Church In The Wildwood
24. ALBUM - Tribute To Mosie Lister
25. SONGWRITER - Mosie Lister
26. SONG - "I Know I'm Going There"
posted by David Bruce Murray @ 2:05:00 PM


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