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)

Click title to purchase at CBD.com...click artist name to read Dave's Review. A CD will automatically fall out of the Top Eight after twelve months if no CD surpasses it before then.

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May 11, 2006

2006 Singing News Fan Awards Update

Singing News announced the Round Two results for the Fan Awards yesterday. I fared fairly well both in my voting and my predictions on which nominees would advance. Let's talk voting first. My Round Two votes that failed to advance are:

Female Singer: Lauren Talley
Album: It's So God (Brian Free and Assurance)
Tenor: John Rulapaugh
Songwriter: Kyla Rowland
Traditional Quartet: Dove Brothers
Artist Website: Kingdom Heirs

So six of my votes failed to advance (not counting DJ categories, which I vote on at random), compared to the nine that failed to advance in the first round. No huge surprises here, but I really wish It's So God and the Dove Brothers had survived.

By the way, I WAS surprised to note that some of the previous big winners were nearly annihilated. In the first round, the Perrys, Triumphant, Greater Vision, Inspirations, Signature Sound, the Kingdom Heirs, and Brian Free/Assurance were nominated in nearly every possible category. The Crabb Family, McKameys, and Hoppers were also in several.

Brian Free/Assurance, the Kingdom Heirs, the Perrys, and The Crabb Family dropped 50% or more of their initial nominations with Brian Free/Assurance taking the heaviest hit. They're now down to two categories after being nominated in nine. OUCH!

The other big winners from the first round did very well in the second round. Greater Vision advanced in nine out of nine categories, which is pretty phenomenal when you consider there's only three members in the group. All five members of Signature Sound advanced, as did four Inspirations and four Triumphant members. All three groups have nominations in the Album and Song categories as well. I think the Hoppers also advanced in every category where they were previously nominated. (I can't recall if they were previously nominated in the Album category. If not, they are 7/7. If so, they are 7/8.)

Now in closing, I get to gloat a bit about my accuracy predicting the results of the three group categories, namely Traditional Quartet, Mixed Quartet, and Trio. I correctly predicted thirteen out of a possible fifteen (roughly 87%).
posted by David Bruce Murray @ 11:19:00 PM


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