On this Father’s Day, I find myself thinking of and being privileged to have had a truly wonderful father. His name was Bob Collins. He was a simple man, who loved his family and who was always willing to put his family first. He easily showed his love and always demonstrated a positive attitude, no matter what problems were [...]
Crossroads Publishing companies Asheville Music Publishing and Chris White Music are pleased to announce the addition of Larry Collie to our list of staff writers. Larry has been sending songs in on a song by song basis now for a while, but has been very consistent in his writing. Just in the last four months [...]
Thursday, April 23rd was a day of celebration at Crossroads as The Crist Family were promoted within the company to the Horizon Records label. Their new recording, Declaration has just released this April and Crossroads anticipates an incredible positive response to this exciting family’s new material. “Rich Crist and I wanted to continue to move the [...]
Crossroads publishing companies, Chris White Music, Asheville Music Publishing & Pisgah Ridge Music received awards at the BMI Christian Music Awards on April 18th in Nashville. Two songs from the catalogs were honored. “No Doubt Salvation” written by Jeff Weeks and recorded by the Palmetto State Quartet, and “I Can Pray” written by Nathan Markee [...]
Some people are not easily excited. I on the other hand get tore up about everything. What I am saying is that I try, and I emphasize “try” to see God at work in everything. When I am going through a hallelujah anyhow time, I try to see that God is preparing me for another [...]
Family harmony is hard to beat and that is certainly the case with this brothers trio, Voices Won from Dalton, Ga. I had the pleasure of producing this artist for a second time and really enjoy working with them. Jaron, Staclynn and Shantell Faulknor are talented singers and Jaron writes many of the group’s songs. [...]
What would you say are the three major reasons why a lot of Gospel songs do not get recorded? You can name more than three, if you wish, but I would like to know at least the top three.
Ivan is in the studio again working on his June 2009 release titled “Unity”. I have been working with Bridget (The person that keeps Ivan on the right track!) and Ivan on the layout for this new recording. Let me just say it is going to look really cool! Lots of great photo’s of Ivan, [...]
In the August issue of Singing News Magazine there is a feature article about the Crossroads website. We thank Jerry Kirksey for writing such a great article. After reading the article a new customer wrote us:
Until now I have not bought songs online. After reading Jerry Kirksey’s article in the Singing News I decided it was [...]
Popular gospel music studio musician David Johnson was recently inducted into the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame in Wilkesboro, NC. Johnson has appeared over the years on many, if not most, of yesterday’s and today’s top gospel artists recordings, a list much too long to list. His incredible musicianship through acoustic and electric guitar, [...]
