An Interview with Pat Barker
I recently had the opportunity of interviewing Pat Barker, bass singer for the Dixie Echoes and recently a top 5 nominee in the Singing News Fan Awards for Horizon Individual of the Year. A formatted version of the interview is here: http://www.southerngospelblog.com/features/20081215.pdf.
DJM: How did you get interested in Southern Gospel, and what sparked a desire to sing it yourself?
Pat: My dad was the one who got me interested. He loves Southern Gospel, he loves quartet music. So I was raised on it as well.
DJM: Was he a bass singer, too?
Pat: Yes, he was.
DJM: Did his voice sound anything like yours?
Pat: You know what’s funny—for a Father’s day gift, I took every recording he’d made, some he didn’t even known about, and put them on CD. When I was listing to them, I thought, “Wow, that sounds just like me!”
Without knowing it, I just got his voice. He can sing the solos, and he got quite an incredible range. I wish I had a voice half as good as his.
DJM: What sparked a desire to sing it yourself? (Continue Reading >>>)
