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the weekend of March 13th & 14th, 2010: |
I always enjoy our All Listener Favorites
editions, and this program was no exception. I love to hear what songs
people are enjoying most and especially the reasons. For many, as
you heard, the songs carry a message of comfort or encouragment that they
especially need, perhaps due to illness or some other personal difficulty,
such as the loss of a loved one. Many of the songs looked forward to heaven
and meeting our Savior face-to-face. In fact, those two themes seemed to
run through many of the songs chosen. In fact, I'd say those are the two
most common themes running through Southern Gospel songs in general. Not
bad themes!
Our Featured Artists on this broadcast
were the Nelons. During our 30th anniversary year I keep thinking
back on how we've known and worked with many of today's groups throughout
that three-decade span. The Nelons are one such group. Although membership
(except for Kelly) has changed, the legacy lives on in their songs. I certainly
don't intend to minimize their church work of the past several years, but
I'm glad to see them on the road once again. And it seems Southern Gospel
music fans in general are glad, too.
The Nelons' CD featured on this program, "Beside
Still Waters," is available from our mailorder service, Springside. Just
call 1-800-38-MUSIC to order. 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.)
This was Week #3 of our 2010 Great Annual
Giveaway. Be sure to send off your entry promptly. We recommend using
the convenient entry form on our website. But if you prefer to mail in your
entry on a postcard, please remember that the mail sometimes travels slowly.
By the way, if you missed either or both of the previous two programs, you
can still enter for those weeks if you find someone who heard the "key word"
for each week and, with minimal arm-twisting, will agree to tell you what
they were. The entry deadline for all four weeks (for the monthly prizes)
is the same March 29, 2010 (noon Eastern for online entries).
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