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Topic: "Cowboy Church Band" |
autry andress
From:
Plano, Tx.
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Posted 29 Mar 2008 4:24 am |
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Any Steel players in the cowboy church band?
How many songs do you play on a Sunday morning?
If you have a guest singer does the band back the
singer, or they aloud to use their on sound tracks?
I feel like if there is a church band, the band backs
the singer...(No sound tracks)
How does your church band deal with this?
I see some Issues in the days ahead & need some of your Imput.
Thanks
Autry |
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Jim Harper
From:
Comanche, Oklahoma, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 29 Mar 2008 7:03 am
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| I play once a month with a Cowboy Church Band. When we have a guest we back the singer,alway,s.We have a mandolin-2 guitar,s-fiddle-me on steel. Enjoy it very much==Jim Harper |
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Skip Cole
From:
North Mississippi
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Posted 29 Mar 2008 7:26 pm
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Hello Jim,
I'd sure be interested in hearing you play . Do you have a date that i can catch you with the band ? I've heard Russ preach on the Church on RFD chanel a few times , but haven't seen or heard the band yet.
My best to you and Peg and the family,
Skip |
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Jim Harper
From:
Comanche, Oklahoma, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Mar 2008 3:50 pm
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| Skip we have a great Cowboy preacher,the first time i played with the band the preacher came up to me and ask me to play San Antonio Rose. I did and they sure appreciated it. Then i played What a friend we have in Jesus. It is sure a great place to Thank the Lord for what we have. Come see me==Jim Harper |
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Stan Paxton
From:
1/2 & 1/2 Florida and Tenn, USA (old Missouri boy gone South)
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Posted 30 Mar 2008 5:44 pm
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Hey Autry,
I envy all you guys that have a "cowboy church" to have a band in. Our little church is a "dukes mixture" of old & young, the music style is a toned down contemporary, keyboard, psg, bass & drums. My playing is just trying to put stuff in with the keyboards' style of his own; nothin' really country or Southern Gospel about it. Anyway, to your question: most of the time, singers want to use tracks to do whatever they want to sing. Occasionally we do the back-up if it is somebody with a Christian country or Southern gospel song.
God Bless..... 
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Nick Reed
From:
Russellville, KY USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2008 12:13 am
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If there is a Church staff band, I believe the Church should inforce a strict policy against guest Singers using tracks. If I want to hear Kyroke, I'll go out to a Club and hear it.
Nick |
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Larry Kinner
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2008 9:19 am
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| Stan my church is about like yours. Very little country gospel. I end up playing chords and occasionally trying to fit a single note fill. I've pretty well quit learning country fills because alot of them don't fit the church music. My biggest problem is no muscians practice. I learn new songs as they are sung. I guess that's good. It helps keep my ears trained. |
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JAMES BANKS
From:
Mineola,TX USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2008 1:31 pm
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I do not play at a Cowboy church, our church is pretty much traditional/southern gospel with a praise chorus or two mixed in. We play a total of 5 or 6 songs each Sunday morning. We however do allow soundtrax if the person singing is more comfortable withthem. Our band can play just about anything traditional/southern/country gospel. I also have a band and we play real country/southern gospel music with Goodman and Hinson styles and our own version of some really old Southern. We even do some early Jimmy Swaggart style material. Oh yes, and we do have some major fun doing what we do.
James |
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