Common Bond is a Lexington, Kentucky based quartet whose members are Rick Melton, Kevin Willis, Mike Bradshaw and Bryan Stevenson. Common Bond won the Branson Gospel Music Revival 2011 Pathway Records Talent Search; first prize was being signed to the Pathway Record label and a full track project, CD soundtrack of all songs recorded, and 100 CDs. Come Down out of the Boat is their latest release recorded in Pigeon Forge, but is not on the Pathway label.
The strongest songs on the project and my personal favorites are Sailing Towards Home, written by Dottie Rambo, has good harmony, a decent mix and great lyrics that talk about going home to heaven that will truly touch your heart and Beulah Land. I like the arrangement; as this is one of the “old standards” for quartets. Every quartet out there has sung this song at some point and it’s nice to hear a little different arrangement of it. Not so much that you don’t recognize it, but enough to make it different than anyone else, like Sailing Towards Home the harmonies are great and really strike a chord as you listen to it and think about heaven and loved ones gone on before.
I’d like to give the CD a higher rating but really, in my opinion, is an average recording at best.
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Written: 01/16/2012
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