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| From the program
aired the weekend of Oct. 17th & 18th, 2009: |
 Our Featured Artists on this broadcast were the
Inspirations from Bryson City, North Carolina. If memory serves, they
were one of the first Featured Artists we had on our broadcast nearly thirty
years ago. They're one of those quartets that, although members have changed
along the way (especially recently), they still have a very distinctive sound
and style. Their latest CD is called "The Son Came Down" and is the
first regular recording of theirs to feature the current vocal lineup —
Mike Holcomb, Melton Campbell, David Ragan and Dallas
Rogers. David joined the group this year and recalls that the Inspirations
were the first Gospel quartet he ever heard, back when he was entering 8th
grade. Although Dallas has sung with other major quartets, he, too, is new
with the Inspirations, joining them when original tenor Archie Watkins
decided to leave.
 The Inspirations' CD featured on this program, "The
Son Came Down," is available from our mailorder service, Springside.
You can order easily from our webstore by
using this
link to go directly to this item. Note, too, that our "Featured Artist
Discount" applies to any other currently in-stock recordings by this artist.
(Orders over $40 in the USA qualify for free shipping.)
 It was a special pleasure visiting with Neil Enloe on
this program's Artist Spotlight segment. Being a fellow Central Pennsylvanian,
we heard Neil with the Couriers many years ago, and still enjoy hearing
him sing with Dave Kyllonen and Duane Nicholson, the other
original Couriers. On this program we visited primarily about Neil's songwriting.
Included, of course, was his best-known and most popular song of all time,
"The Statue of Liberty." I thought Neil's observations about how that
song is sung and enjoyed around the world — not just in America —
were especially interesting. Shelia and I were especially honored to attend
Neil's recent induction into the
Southern Gospel Music Hall of
Fame in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. More information about Neil and what
he's doing now can be found at his website,
www.neilenloe.com.
I hope you caught our brief visit with Brenda Ruppe Hurte and her
husband, Steve Hurte. They dropped by our studios recently to talk
about what they're doing these days and, especially, that one song they have
put out to radio called "God Is Working." We've been getting a lot
of calls about that song. But I must reiterate that the song is not yet available
on a CD, as you heard Steve explain on the broadcast. Nevertheless, even
through just radio play (and, of course, at their concerts) the song certainly
is touching lives, reassuring us that God is at work, doing His will, whether
we see what He's doing or not. As I mentioned on the program, we'll visit
more with Steve as a songwriter on a future program.
Ann Downing's new book "Skidmarks On The Road Of Life," mentioned
on the Headline Update, can be ordered through our webstore,
springside.com.
More info about the Harvester's Quartet Reunion, also mentioned on
the Headline Update, can be found at
www.harvestersquartet.com.
That concert is October 30th at the Dennis Wiker Civic Center in Sanford,
North Carolina.
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