In SG, I think we tend to like the slow “message” songs on our favorite groups’ projects (songs which are neither big ballads nor fast songs), and we generally like the hit songs off all the major group’s projects.

Thanks again!

You had asked once before (somewhere) if reviews do influence buying decisions, so I thought you might like to know that they sometimes do. A good review will call attention to an album I might not be aware of, and then if I can catch some 30-sec clips of it, I’ll definitely consider it.

Perhaps “If Only Just a Few” is a song that you just have to hear Mark set up live and in person to fully appreciate. In person, it’s amazing, gripping. Some songs are like that.

I’ve listened to it several times trying to guess who wrote the songs – mainly trying to guess which might be a Rodney Griffin song. I see I was totally off! I guessed the first song to be by a writer like Dianne Wilkinson (or another classic straight-ahead quartet song writer). I was most inclined to think “If God Said It” was written by Rodney, except that I couldn’t imagine Gerald letting go of it … and my next guess for Rodney was “At the Whisper of His Name.”

“If Only Just a Few” actually hasn’t gripped me very much yet, and it was the one I was pretty sure Rodney didn’t write. But the songs he pitches to other groups usually are pretty different from GV’s.

“Always Have a Song” reminded me more of a Mark Bishop song than anything, melody-wise, although I didn’t actually think he wrote it.

Well, I do a fairly decent job at guessing Rodney’s songs on a GV album, anyway.

My favorites are definitely “If God Said It,” “I Know That I Know,” and “At the Whisper of His Name.” Although the whole song isn’t my style, the tenor singing at the end of “Safe On the Glory Side” is a lot of fun!!