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Why Not Both?........

So, how many of you love (or loved)  the old hymns and Southern Gospel Quartets, like The Statesmen Quartet, The Chuck Wagon Gang,Speer Family and The Blackwood Brothers Quartet ?   How many of you love (or loved) The Hinson’s, Goodmans or The Imperials and Couriers?  How many of you love Steven Curtis Chapman, Chris Tomlin, Natalie Grant and Casting Crowns? And there are those great choirs as The Christ Church Choir and Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir,how about that great music.

How many of you heard your parents or grandparents say that they didn’t like the artists that you liked?  It’s too loud!  I don’t like those drums!  What is it with those guitars, what’s up with that!  Why do they sing the same line, so many times?  Why do you have to have four men singing together (dressed alike?)  So, are you having similar conversations in your homes and in your churches today?  It’s amazing how things come full circle, huh?  

How do you think gospel music was kept alive throughout all these generations?  It’s because God gave his children a vision and they got out of their comfort zone!  It’s tough; it isn’t easy to get out of your comfort zone!  But, we must in order to grow and progress!   Isn’t that how we run our businesses?  Why wouldn’t we run God’s business in the best, effective method?  So, I ask you, why not both, southern gospel music and praise and worship music?

Gold Harbor loves our Seniors, Middle Agers and our Up and Comer Kids!  We want to bridge that gap as those did that came before us!   As “Children of God” we must find new and creative ways to appeal to all audiences (Seniors, Middle Agers and Up and Comer Kids) or Gospel Music and it’s legacy will not be carried on to the future generations.  How many of us want to see that happen?  I didn’t think so.

For this season, Gold Harbor is taking some of the praise/contemporary songs and putting a slight twist or bend to Southern Gospel to make “Southern Praise and Worship”.  We want our Seniors, Middle Agers and Up and Comer Kids to worship our Lord Jesus Christ, side by side, hand in hand.  So we are in the studio recording a new Southern Praise and Worship album so that all generations can worship together!  

In 2008, we released, In Christ Alone and in 2009 for radio, we released Holy Rain, written by Regi Stone and David Edwards which was the awarding winning choral song of the year in 2006.  Audiences are moved by both of these songs as they worship and praise the Lord Jesus Christ.  

JR Richards’ continued inspiration comes from his biggest cheerleader, his mother (87 years young!),Who traveled the sawdust trail in the 1930's and 40's.  He tried out the most recent Southern Praise and Worship Release, “Children of God” for her.  She cried softly and worshipped the Lord as she listened.  She said that song will reach and speak for generations to come.  

Now, this Southern Praise and Worship album is an electric season for Gold Harbor and is not the only genre of music GH has done or will do in the future.  Gold Harbor desires to be an instrument that God can work through to encourage the discouraged and hopeless!  And, to win lost and dying souls to Jesus Christ!  We want to have an open mind and heart to how God wants to use us and sometimes that requires even us to get out of our comfort zone musically by introducing new and different styles of music that will reach out in places we have never been.  

Just can’t wait for you to hear the next genre of music that God wants Gold Harbor to use to reach His children, The Children of God!