CD Review: It Just Started For Me (Cross 4 Crowns)

Last year, when Cross 4 Crowns released Turning Point, I gave it a 5-star rating (here)—pretty much unheard of for a debut project, particularly from a group not started by an already known personality. Since that album’s release, the group’s one previously known name, Dallas Rogers, left and...

CD Review: No Trace of Rain (Paid In Full)

Paid in Full started in 1991 and really took off when the late Jake Hess started mentoring the group in 1996. For years, they have been content to be weekend warriors, even as an increasing chorus of critics and fans say that they’re on par with the best out there. It’s not the sort of situation...

CD Review: Decennial (Dove Brothers)

Often, when a group celebrates an anniversary like ten years on the road, they will mark it with a compilation of some of their greatest hits. But the Dove Brothers can be trusted to think outside the box, and they don’t disappoint. Decennial is a collection of eight Dove Brothers classics and two new...

CD Review: Expecting Good Things (Jeff & Sheri Easter)

Two years ago, after thirteen or fourteen years on the road with Jeff & Sheri Easter, Charlotte Ritchie resigned and started a solo career. When Jeff & Sheri announced that their fourteen-year-old daughter Morgan would be taking Charlotte’s place at the soprano spot, many fans wondered if she...

CD Review: What You Hear is What You Get (Randy Byrd)

Randy Byrd, bass singer for the Blackwood Brothers, isn’t the sort who needs a big orchestration or Auto-tuning to sound good. And that’s a good thing, because neither are to be found on his debut solo project. Except for the fact that the recording technology was undoubtedly digital, this...

CD Review: I’m Looking Through New Eyes (The Primitive Quartet)

The Primitive Quartet have put out another great project with five of the ten songs written by lead singer Reagan Riddle. I love the way he writes and I’m really glad to see him writing more. The CD starts with a song the quartet recorded years ago called “Come Back Home.” It’s an...

CD Review: Then and Now (Olivia Collingsworth)

Several years ago, when the Collingsworth Family first came on the national scene, one of the first things people noticed was that their little four- or five-year old girl had an incredible voice and control for her age. Olivia Collingsworth started singing on stage at age two and recorded her first song at...

DVD Review: NQC Live Vol. 9

Much—perhaps too much—has already been said here and elsewhere about what’s not on this year’s NQC Live. That topic has been exhausted, so let’s talk about what is there. Twelve songs from leading Southern Gospel artists are featured on the CD/DVD combo; two bonus tracks also appear on...

DVD Review: Live at Oak Tree (Greater Vision)

Live at Oak Tree is a DVD / CD series released by Daywind Records, featuring several Daywind artists singing in a studio setting at Oak Tree Studio. Greater Vision’s entry in this series features quite a few songs from their Not Alone CD (their most recent recording of new songs), as well as several...

DVD Review: The Legacy, The Legend, The Lady (Eva Mae LeFevre)

About a year ago, several former LeFevres family and group members gathered for a special concert to commemorate Eva Mae LeFevre’s 90th birthday. Though nobody there knew this, it ended up being Eva Mae’s final recorded performance. Performances from the former members are interspersed with...