I Love To Tell The Story

While you may not be familiar with his name, If you listen to country, bluegrass, or southern gospel music, you have undoubtedly been affected by Kyle Cantrell.

As a longtime voice of WSM Radio, former program director for Sirius Enlighten and Bluegrass Junction, and current host of BanjoMusic.com, you can just imagine the stories he can share.

In fact, that's the reason this interview goes a little longer than most of our episodes. Just as we thought the interview was about to end, the conversation veered into some stories we are confident you won't hear anywhere else. 

Sit back and enjoy the interview.

It's our one-year podcast Anniversary and we invited Josh Singletary to help us celebrate. Join us for a special conversation filled with some memories, plenty of stories, and enough laughter to guarantee a smile on your face.

Happy Anniversary to us! Come join the party!

Join Dusty and Dave for a conversation with Grammy-nominated pianist, singer and songwriter Sarah Davison, founder of Gospel Music's HighRoad. She toured with iconic Country Music Hall of Famer George Jones’ band on his final tour of Canada, she performs regularly on the Grand Ole Opry with ACM Award-winner and Opry member, Mark Wills, Emily Ann Roberts, Grand Ole Opry members, the Isaacs. She has been the pianist for Gaither Homecoming series tapings featuring Bradley Walker and actor, Dennis Quaid. 

Singer, songwriter, author, and humorist Mark Lowry is best known for penning the lyric to the Christmas classic "Mary Did You Know?" and singing baritone for the GRAMMY © Award winning Gaither Vocal Band for many years.

Mark Lowry is not your typical Christian Music singer and this interview with Dave and Dusty is not the typical Mark Lowry interview.

On Friday, July 26, word began to spread about the horrific plane crash that claimed the lives of seven people, including three members of The Nelons, one of Christian Music's most loved groups. On a more personal level, we lost some of our dearest friends and there are no words to adequately capture the heaviness of these past few days.

Rather than posting our normal scheduled podcast, we decided to just sit down this evening and try to talk through it.

This is that conversation...

Join us for a conversation with five-time Grammy and eleven-time Dove Award-winning artist Larnelle Harris. He has achieved nineteen #1 radio singles and countless top 10 hits.  Songs such as "How Excellent Is Thy Name," "I Miss My Time With You," and "I've Just Seen Jesus," plus many others, including his signature song, "Amen," are now considered modern gospel music classics.

Interviews like this one are why we love to tell the story. Stories you won't hear anywhere else and won't forget anytime soon.

This interview also available on our YouTube channel at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvV5S_bhP70

Gordon Jensen wrote one of Christian Music’s biggest songs, Redemption Draweth Nigh, when he was only eighteen. But fortunately, the story doesn’t end there. Over the next few decades, the songs continued to flow with classics such as Written In Red, I Should Have Been Crucified, Whisper Jesus, He’s As Close as the Mention of His Name, Bigger Than Any Mountain, and Jesus Will Outshine Them All.
 
This is an episode you won’t want to miss. Join Dusty and Dave for an insightful conversation with one of Christian Music's most recorded songwriters. 

Rick Shelton, one of Christian Music’s most successful song publishers joins Dusty and Dave for a fascinating conversation about songs written from dark places. The question is an intriguing one.   If you knew the story behind a song, or what the songwriter was going through when they wrote it, would it change the way you listen to it?

This episode features three old friends, doing what they do best, talking about songs and the songwriters who create them.  It's an episode you wont want to miss.

It's another example of why we love to tell the story.

Tony Wood, one of Christian Music’s most prolific songwriters,
joins Dusty and Dave for a fascinating conversation filled with the highs
and lows of a songwriter's road to success. In his thirty years as a songwriter,
Tony has amassed an unparalleled body of work that includes
multiple Dove Awards, nearly 40 #1 singles, and songs recorded by some
of the biggest artists in Christian and country music. As you can imagine,
journeys like his don’t happen without a serious work ethic, a good
plan, and some pretty funny stories along the way.

Our conversation with Tony Wood is also available for viewing on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/iQ9fnwi0XLA

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To many of us, the Holocaust is something we read about in history books.  But the story hits much closer to home for Lily Isaacs, matriarch of the family award-winning bluegrass Southern gospel group, The Isaacs.

Her parents survived the Nazi concentration camps of World War II and came to America as immigrants when she was only two years old. If you wonder how a poor Jewish girl growing up in the Bronx became a born-again Christian and a beloved member of the Grand Ole Opry, this is an episode you don’t want to miss. 

Her journey was unlikely. Her faith is unwavering and her story is worth hearing. 

Our conversation with Lily Isaacs is also available on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/cdiTlR48eXQ