The church was a small, very friendly church on the outskirts of Nashville. We almost didn’t go because I couldn’t find an address. It turns out they don’t have a phone at the church.
- The Georgia Boys are a local area quartet. They were good.
- The Dove Brothers have been going through a lot of changes lately.
- The name has changed again. It was The Dove Brothers Quartet, then The Dove Brothers Band, and now McCray Dove and The Dove Brothers Band.
- It’s not ‘brothers’ anymore. Eric Dove has come off the road and has been replaced.
- The piano player is gone and McCray now plays piano, which stops all group interaction during songs. One of the groups main draws is their on-stage interaction and McCray’s ‘antics’ during “Didn’t It Rain” and “Get Away Jordan” which is gone now. McCray also doesn’t have the ‘flair’ of previous piano players.
- Bass singer David Hester left and Burman Porter (who, in my opinion, has the finest bass voice in all of Southern Gospel music) came back in Sept. 2011. Now 2 years later, Burman is gone and the bus driver David Cable is singing bass. He did an okay job, but certainly can’t fill the shoes of the likes of David Hester and Burman Porter.
- They sounded good, but are moving more towards the ‘twangy’ bluegrass style with the steel guitar and sound. They butchered several of their standards with the ‘twang’.
Don’t misunderstand, these guys are still one of our favorites, we just miss the days ‘before the band’.