Hello once again folks. I'm very excited about some possible future things happening with the show. I can't say yet where, but I'm in talks for a station (or couple of stations) that might be picking the show up. Praying God's will in this situation and hopefully my show will reach a new market or couple of markets in the very near future. Here are a few headlines from the world of Southern Gospel Music:

*After three months and 36 candidates for the position, Mark Trammell has announced today that Randy Byrd will be the new bass vocalist for the Mark Trammell Quartet. Mark shares, "We are thrilled with the overwhelming inquiry about this position. And after much prayer and consideration, the group collectively feels that Randy is the man for this season of our ministry." To read the rest of this article, go to www.singingnews.com.

*The 11th Annual Gospel Extravaganza in Bourbonnais, Illinois will be held July 31st - August 2nd. Many greats artists will be there including The Perrys, Red Roots, and the Kingsmen just to name a few. For more information and to purchase tickets, go to www.mcproductionsonline.com .

If you are interested in airing this show on your station or would like to advertise on my show, shoot me an email to sunmorninggospelhour@gmail. com God bless.

When Johnny Winter hit the scene back in the '60s, he looked and sounded like nothing else on the planet.

A ferocious blues guitar player with a snarling voice to match, Winter, who died Wednesday in a hotel room near Zurich, also cut a striking figure on stage with his thin, pale frame and long, white hair.

A 1968 Rolling Stone article described him as "a cross-eyed albino with long, fleecy hair, who plays some of the gutsiest, fluid blues you've ever heard."

If, as its mythology suggests, the blues comes from the crossroads, Winter, 70, found himself at a heavily trafficked intersection. Hailing from Beaumont, Texas, he was part of a lineage of Lone Star blues guitarists that stretches from Lightnin' Hopkins and T-Bone Walker to Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Johnson and beyond. Winter also arrived at a time when British rock guitarists were hearing the blues, then feeding it back to American audiences in new forms. Winter found himself right in the middle of all that, earning the admiration, even the awe, of those who heard him.

Winter released his self-titled major-label debut on Columbia Records, a deal he got after executives heard him sitting in with guitarist Michael Bloomfield and keyboardistAl Kooper at New York's Fillmore East. Bloomfield had introduced him as "the baddest (expletive), man," saying, "this cat can play."

1969's Johnny Winter featured appearances by blues greats Willie Dixon and Walter Horton. Later that year, Winter appeared at the Woodstock festival, though he wasn't included in the movie.

In the early '70s, Winter formed a band with members of The McCoys, known for their 1965 hit Hang On Sloopy. That group featured a guitarist named Rick Derringer, who wrote Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo. That song, recorded by Winter in 1970 and Derringer in 1973, became a staple of album-rock radio and a must-cover song for any high-school band worth its salt throughout the '70s.

Winter packed arenas during the early and mid-'70s, as he released albums such asStill Alive and Well, Saints & Sinners and John Dawson Winter III.

Even at the height of his rock stardom, his music never strayed far from the blues. As he got older, he returned to those roots more and more frequently. He produced four albums for pioneering bluesman Muddy Waters, beginning with 1977's Hard Again. That year also saw the release of his own album Nothin' But the Blues, which lived up to its name. Winter continued to focus on blues-oriented material on subsequent albums released on Alligator, Pointblank and Virgin.

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