The Alabama Experience; How Sweet the Sound

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that was the man with the middle class he's hoping to come out and see the gospel go to chicago from the cotton fields of steel mills to people who were saying you know the depths of the heart the rhythms that they came forth with dowling so they came for well certainly influenced r and there's a whole community world who love gospel quartet music and they pretty much the same things talk the same language support the same people and it's just a great fellowship and that's what happened they come from everywhere to unite during january it

as beth we have many caucuses which are just kept alive nacho bitches the birmingham event brings everybody together from all corners of the country as well as around the world it's the criminal process is all the major things that we have a national awards ceremony is this is where they interview artist of the year mormons thinks the region events can steer towards race in the battle for american gospel quartet convention was created to do with quartet his own the world an opportunity to unify so what we try to do is to educate we try the fellowship and would try to go back to iraq a lot of what we sing about and iraq is jesus

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been the case but it is our job to teach them about songwriting how lawfully copyrighted songs and how to affiliate with the summer the performance rights organizations held to go about recording and how to find studios how to just be is basically tap into what manager should do and what contract should read like to be to your advantage and rather than just to the advantage of a record company because we don't know what to look for you except any and everything so our attempt is to get them into this environment and to share with them the knowledge of bringing in the expertise from throughout the country

see so distrustful robinson is a legit is a legend in that he's been linked to other great groups as well as others were too great groups the five blind boys of mississippi and the five blind boys of alabama roscoe robinson no the business he has relationships with people like sam bobby womack who started out in gospel and just all in all in all so to have russell roberts as a part of our convention is a blessing for us and it's it's

bleak you couldn't use guitars guitar bass drums and people who are quite a while and it's about a place of them that they would jetta that you could even get in the pulpit to say you can get up to lubbock was communicate and to do and say what then eventually come from to holiness church like they start using drones in its tambourine time and here comes a good job based in the people he was

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traveling from all parts of the country and they come in the car he's been trying to play in bands they just come in from everywhere and the fellowship wants a while what we find is that they all look for people that metaphor and they enjoy meeting all those who have a scientist gospel quartet music we were to make this representative of the love of god and so that's our get the charcoal and that's ira so once it starts at the top it simply flows down through the body it's my desire to see everybody happy is my desire to see everybody fellowship me and if there's a problem i wanna know about it immediately so that we can cut that problem out in rome with love and soul we promoted from the stage we promoted in the hallways be promoted throughout news larry we're coming together to a fellowship to love each other and i say to everybody you meet somebody that you haven't met before don't come here and not as a well as the cameraman oh

whether it's the the roadie for one of the groups of the trial and that means some of it so that we can make lifelong relationships in this is the night that we have our savings throughout the days when you get up and you could say here's such of such groups from north carolina is a group from florida is a group from michigan is a group from california back to back each night each day that's the amazing thing about the american gospel quartet convention

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and then the popular these guys look for the best places to buy their clothes they look for the best musical instruments the best musicians i mean when you talk about coming to a place where you have two hundred groups gathered you won the car half staff you want to make sure that your shoes a shirt you want to make sure that your vanity obama says looking good you want to make sure that you have or hers

and lots of months for your five or ten minutes that you're going to get on stage and all that saying is unless there's a balance there is the professional side and there is the god sir it's been cleaned in the old days the guys each community had its group and what they would do is come together and then compete with each other on a regular basis and they would compete with things like the way they dress the tones of song dissident the

harmonies and everybody would want the show porsche didn't have the instruments overshadowing the voices were the instrument and so you had to have someone to train and that meant a lot of practice for seventy competitiveness still lingers although we tried to take it away from the competitive atmosphere to just lifting of the name jesus in our songs so they say now they're going to have at the end of the few personally lived in or just outside the convention and also to larry summers it's

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