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1 December 2008

An Interview with Christian Davis

Posted in: Interviews — Daniel J. Mount @ 3:34 pm

Recently, I had the chance to interview Christian Davis. After singing bass with the Old Time Gospel Hour Quartet, Christian Brothers Quartet, and Mercy’s Mark, he recently launched a solo ministry and has reorganized the Christian Brothers Quartet for select dates. His website is www.christiandavisministries.com.

For a formatted version of the interview, click here: http://www.southerngospelblog.com/features/20081201.pdf. A text version is below.

DJM: How did you get interested in Southern Gospel?
Christian: I started at an early age, growing up around it. My family were big Southern Gospel fans. Being involved in church, and listening to tapes and records, it just kinda sunk into my system and my blood.
My dad had a Sunday morning radio program and I always loved to pick out songs for him to play. One of my favorite things to do on Sunday morning was go to the radio station with my Dad.
As I got older, that’s when I really developed more of a love for it, because I understood it better. Not that I didn’t love it at an early age, but I was able to comprehend it a little more.

DJM: So your first experience traveling professionally was with the Sounds of Liberty?
Christian: Yeah, my first professional musical experience was with Sounds of Liberty, a recruiting group for Liberty University. That was only for the year of 1999.
At the time, the Sounds of Liberty weren’t singing Southern Gospel. One Sunday morning, I had an opportunity to speak with Dr. Jerry Falwell in his office and talked to him about starting a quartet. When I said that, it was like magic words to him. He had always wanted his own quartet, for his church, ministry and TV program (The Old Time Gospel Hour), as well as traveling with him when he goes around and speaks. He told me, “Christian, I want you to be the bass singer. Robbie Hiner doesn’t know it yet, but he’s gonna be my tenor singer!”
You can read a little about that on my website.

DJM: You were with them from ‘99 through ‘03?
Christian: Yeah, I was with them for four years.

DJM: And then you started your own group…
Christian: Yes, the Christian Brothers. (Continue Reading >>>)

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Pick one Greater Vision recording…

Posted in: Commentary — Daniel J. Mount @ 10:00 am

A friend mentioned the other day that she thought Everyday People, Greater Vision’s last A-list recording with Jason Waldroup, represented the peak or culimation of Greater Vision’s sound during Waldroup’s time with the group.

I didn’t say anything at the time, but that comment got me thinking. What was Greater Vision’s best recording during their Waldroup years? And (if the answer is any different), what recording would you point to as the culmination of that era?

It was easy for me to narrow it down to three finalists: Live at First Baptist Atlanta (2002), Quartets (2003), and Hymns of the Ages (2006).

Mainly since it’s the last of the three, I’d point to Hymns of the Ages as the culmination. Every track on the project is fully orchestrated and arranged perfectly for the three voices; the project really doesn’t have a single dud track.

It would be a harder call for me to say which I think is the best of the three.

What do you think? What was Greater Vision’s best recording during their Waldroup years? And what recording was the culmination of that era?

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