Comments on: GloryWay Quartet, Mountain State Quartet, Dixie Melody Boys

By: home coming

home coming — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:16:08 +0000

HOME COMEING IS THE NAME OF THE SONG

By: QN

QN — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:34:26 +0000

I’m Not What I Want To Be is actually titled “I’m Not What I Was”- Gold City recorded it on the “Pressed Down, Shaken Together, Running Over” release.

By: Mary St.Clair

Mary St.Clair — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:05:38 +0000

Daniel, thank you for the compiment.
Many groups have a hard time keeping live accompanyment for a multitude of reasons. But when a group can present it, it’s always a breath of fresh air, especially in this age of stacked background vocals on the overbearing, loud soundtracks groups today use. I too, have always been a fan of live accompanyment.

By: Daniel J. Mount

Daniel J. Mount — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:22:06 +0000

Mary, I would add to that that your group (the GloryWay Quartet) did an exceptionally good job of just singing.

I love the all-live music, and while the Dixie Melody Boys are great at it, too, they couldn’t do much since they have no pianist right now. So except for one acapella song they did, your group provided the only all-live music of the night, and that was especially nice.

By: Mary St.Clair

Mary St.Clair — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:18:27 +0000

Actaully,the night started off with J&J introducing who they were, and how J&J started. They also took time to personally thank the sponsors who were in attendance. Then the night opened with prayer. Daniel’s time estimate (when the DMB’s started singing)was correct, but the other groups were not on stage that whole time.
I totally agree with Dean about groups abusing their time, and I appreciate Gradie’s concerns. Fortunatelly, the groups sang most of their time on stage and didn’t stray from that with ‘chit-chat’.

By: Daniel J. Mount

Daniel J. Mount — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:07:28 +0000

I am not saying the following to contradict or oppose anyone. I just wanted to comment that the concert started roughly promptly. It was 6:45 on my watch when the Mountain State Quartet came on stage, and the Dixie Melody Boys came on stage at 7:30 (give or take maybe two minutes either way).

By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:18:07 +0000

Perhaps DMB was able toget in more songs because they didn’t encore every other one and beat the audience to death with feeble attempts at humor and/or innane stories. I’m not sayingthis is the case here but I’ve seen it too many times.

By: Gradie

Gradie — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:01:23 +0000

Now I remember why I don’t post much. I apologize. My remarks were in no way directed toward J&J Promotions. The last thing on earth I would do is try to offend anyone that is willing to put in the work and effort to promote southern gospel. They were general comments so please take them the wrong way. I was going by Daniel’s time estimates not the number of songs. According to what he wrote it was an hour and a half. Which to me, as a fan, would be too long. On the other hand, on a few occasions, I enjoyed a lesser-known opening group more than someone who is headlining (maybe twice). As a promoter you have to do whatever your attendees want. Again, I wasn’t there so my opinion is worth even less than normal.

By: Mary St.Clair

Mary St.Clair — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:34:49 +0000

IN response to Dean and Gradie’s comments, I will point out some things.
1) Count the songs. In the 1st round, GloryWay sang 7 songs, and Mountain State sang 7 also. Assuming all those are 4 minute songs (which they were not), then each group sang 28 minutes. We’ll guess half an hour as a total ,including group introductions.
The Dixie Melody Boys did 13 songs that first set. Assume these songs were all 3 minutes long. Then they had 39 minutes of singing.
In the 2nd round, GloryWay and Mountain State sang 4 each, and the DMB sang 5 .
2)As part of J&J Promotions, I can say that we gave Ed full reign to sing however long he wanted. If they sang an amount of time similar in legnth to the others groups, it was his choice.

By: Gradie

Gradie — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:26:43 +0000

Good review Daniel. I agree with Dean in that a local group should sing enough to give a good sample of what they are capable of doing and move on with the concert. I sing in one of those groups and realize, more so, as a SG fan, most folks paid to hear the pro group, not someone they can hear just down the road on any given Sunday night. It’s a good opportunity to showcase your group and I would never turn the opportunity to open a concert like this, but I would feel uneasy about a promoter who gave us equal time with a quality pro group. I saw DMB a few weeks ago and they were impressive. I believe Mr. O’neal will have a hard time holding on to these guys as well. New baritone and lead are good and if you like good old high as the sky quartet tenor endings you’ll love Mr. Keeton