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My Own Personal Choir - Update

My Own Personal Choir - Update

June 8, 2009 UPDATE I heard from Chaplin Herbie Harris some wonderful results of our recent event. Of the 819 residents at Ellsworth Correctional Center 811 attended our recent event!!! WOW!!! I have been doing prison ministry since the early ’80’s and this has to be the most remarkable event I have ever been part of really, really, really remarkable.  So I just had to let you know. My... [Read more]

Gospel Music Week Notes

Gospel Music Week Notes

Gospel Music Week Notes Tuesday, April 21, 2009 This is my first time to be at Gospel Music Week referred to as GMA here in Nashville. As you may know we have contract a public relations firm to assist us in getting our message out to the world. Here are some notes on what I have been doing. Sunday evening, April 19 The McCain & CO 11th Guitar Pull A guitar pull is a Nashville tradition which is... [Read more]

Jammin’ with Clark & Keaggy

Jammin’ with Clark & Keaggy

Here is a video, cover of a Dylan tune of The Rev and some fine players… Enjoy The Rev, Paul Clark, Phil Keaggy, Eric Stark, Josh Meyers and Others  Read More →

Blues Revue Magazine talking about “The Electric Rev.”

Blues Revue Magazine talking about “The Electric Rev.”

Check out this review from the February / March 2009 issue of Blues Revue Magazine THE REV. JIMMIE BRATCHER The Electric Rev. Ain’t Skeert Tunes The Rev. Jimmie Bratcher looks like someone you might find on an East Coast college campus an intellectual hipster who reads Kant while sipping white wine. It’s all the more startling, then, that “Call On Me,” the opening track of Bratcher’s... [Read more]