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1. Jerry Reed...Revisited by Darrell Toney (reviewed 6/07) (5 Stars) 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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-----------February 6, 2007"CCM" A Southern Gospel Fan Can Enjoy Click HERE to sample music by a new group called 33 Miles. Former Gold City sound tech, Josh Hoevelmann, alerted readers of the Sogospelnews.com forums to 33 Miles in THIS thread. Based on their three song samples posted at MySpace, I really like this group so far. Vocal harmony counts for something on the chorus of a pop song. Better yet, I even heard a guitar solo and some nice vocal ad libs on "What Could Be Better." It reminds me a bit of the music I used to hear in the early 1990s, before groups like Jars Of Clay, Caedmon's Call, and Mercy Me came along and made bland music the "in" thing, crowding out just about everything in this style in the process. Remember East To West? At one point in time, they were thought of as the next huge group on the horizon. Just as they were hitting their stride with a critically acclaimed second CD, it's like the faucet was totally turned off on Christian pop music. For the next ten years, "CCM" has been all about a constant supply of worship music with very little in the way of musical virtuosity, vocal harmony, or elaborate production quality. When is the last time you heard a decent guitar or keyboard solo on Christian radio? It's well past time to turn that faucet back on. (By the way, former East To West member Jay Demarcus went on to tour with Michael English before joining a popular Country act called Rascal Flatts. 33 Miles is being compared to Rascal Flatts.) Let's just hope Christian radio is wise enough to run with this group. If groups like this start to catch on, this SG fan might grow to enjoy listening to the two humongous Christian FM stations in my area again. Labels: CCM, Observations posted by David Bruce Murray @ 11:48:00 PM
 
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