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From the program aired the weekend of Sept. 12th & 13th, 2009: This was our annual All-Quartets Edition, in honor of the start of Southern Gospel music's biggest annual event, the National Quartet Convention in Louisville, KY. Quartet singing has formed the foundation of Southern Gospel music ever since, as Gary Casto mentioned on the program, the Vaughan quartets traveled the country singing (and selling their songbooks) nearly a century ago. And, although mixed groups, trios and even soloists now form a large part of the genre, quartets still provide the music's foundation. I hope you enjoyed (as I did) the two special features on the second hour — the recreation by Ernie Haase & Signature Sound of a 1940s quartet radio program as well as the special "Yesterday's Voices" feature remembering the late Hovie Lister, the consummate quartet man. (This concludes this season's run of "Yesterday's Voices" features. They'll return next summer.) Our Featured Artists on this program were the Dove Brothers (a quartet, of course). We visited with McCray Dove, Eric Dove, Jerry Martin and David Hester. (We'll visit with pianist Jerry Kelso separately on an upcoming broadcast.) The six songs you heard during our Featured Artist visits were from their new CD, "Hold On." I'm glad McCray added the opening and closing lines to their current radio song, "A Little Good News," because, as the song now says, "the Gospel is the good news needed today." Very true, and more urgently than ever. McCray's story about where he wrote his song "Jesus He's Everything" was amusing. (Fortunately, we have no photos of the writing session.) I really enjoyed their song "When I Wake Up In The Morning." I hope it'll be a future radio release for them. The Dove Brothers' CD featured on this program, "Hold On," is available from our mailorder service, Springside. You can order easily from our webstore by using this link to go directly to this item. (Orders over $40 in the USA qualify for free shipping.) Information about the National Quartet Convention, mentioned frequently on this broadcast, can be found at their website: www.natqc.com.

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