Comments on: Once Upon a Cross (Mark Trammell Trio)

By: Amy Rogers

Amy Rogers — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:50:37 +0000

OK, I think I have settled it for myself. A few years ago, some of our friends gave us some tapes of “amateur” Bible Missionary singers. I haven’t gone through the tapes to confirm it, but I think they probably heard GV’s version and picked it up for themselves.

At least I’m not losing my mind!

By: Daniel J. Mount

Daniel J. Mount — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:13:03 +0000

Actually, the mid-90s is probably the weakest spot in my collection (which ranges from late 50s through today). I have a fairly extensive SG album collection, for someone who’s only been at this a few years, and a decent selection of current music over the past few years.

But for quite a few groups, the early 90s is the weak spot in my collection–even for groups like the Florida Boys, Inspirations and Cathedrals where my collection of their projects is fairly well represented elsewhere.

That’s all the long way around saying that if some other group did it at right about that point, I might well not know.

By: Amy Rogers

Amy Rogers — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:08:44 +0000

Oh, I know. But I also did a Google search and came up with nothing. And I think you have a lot more comprehensive selection of the last 10-15 years than I do. The majority of my albums are Cats, GV, and L5 … with some odd ones thrown in here and there for good measure. OK, make that heaped up, pressed down, and running over. I have quite a bit of other music. (Just now I searched my iTunes music too, in case maybe I’d had a “duh” moment, and I can say with some small degree of certainty that I don’t have a digital version of it anywhere.)

By: Daniel J. Mount

Daniel J. Mount — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:04:32 +0000

Do keep in mind that I don’t have every Southern Gospel CD ever released. It may be on a CD I haven’t heard / heard of yet.

By: Amy Rogers

Amy Rogers — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:03:36 +0000

Hmm, I guess it’s something weird, then.

Or I’ve been listening to MTT’s version too much!

I’m almost positive, though, that there’s something buried in the back of my mind … If it wasn’t written before ‘93, then it can’t be on our old albums. Maybe there is another song that is similar. I’ll have to keep thinking about it.

By: Daniel J. Mount

Daniel J. Mount — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:00:22 +0000

I’m not personally aware of any other renditions.

By: Amy Rogers

Amy Rogers — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:58:47 +0000

I just got this CD a few weeks ago (I guess in late October, actually). I’ve listened to it quite a bit to “get a feel” for it. I’ve been getting a stronger and stronger feeling that I recognized “Heaven Can’t Be Far Away.” That’s why I looked up this review, actually. So I can see now that GV recorded it, but I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard their rendition of it. Did someone else do it? Or is this just a weird déja-vu (sp) thing?

By: www.southerngospelblog.com » Blog Archive » Top 10 Albums of the 2000s

www.southerngospelblog.com » Blog Archive » Top 10 Albums of the 2000s — Sat, 05 May 2007 12:11:50 +0000

[...] I caught some flak a few weeks ago when I suggested that the Mark Trammell Trio’s current project was one of the best albums released this decade. Of course, the controversy got me to thinking: Which are the best albums released this decade, so far? [...]

By: www.southerngospelblog.com » Blog Archive » Concert Review: Greater Vision, Mark Trammell Trio

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:55:46 +0000

[...] The fourth song in the trio’s set was “Moving the Hand of God,” one of my favorite cuts off their recent project, Once Upon a Cross. I said when I reviewed the project that this Kyla Rowland song seems to have been misplaced from a Perrys project–about as high a compliment as I can give to a song. It was good on the CD, but it was even better live. [...]

By: Paul Jackson

Paul Jackson — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 06:37:45 +0000

You go Daniel!!!!
Mark is one of our AR home boys (like Roger Bennett). We are proud of him down here. I need to get a copy of the CD real soon…then I can register a qualified opinion.
However…
from my long time relationship with Mark, I do know this: Given the right tools and resources he is as capable of putting together a “super” project as anyone in SG.
His years with the Cat’s and their association with Lari Goss was the finest of prep for doing what he is doing now…how does the saying go?…”He learned from the best!”…well, he did. Congratulations Mark!

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