Tell Someone

Kenny Smith | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 30, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rebel Records
• ASIN: B000LXST0E
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,578 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #70 in Music > Christian > Southern Gospel

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kenny & Amanda to reach out & touch people with messages of their Christian faith, January 31, 2007

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J. Ross "a-music_fan" (Roseburg, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tell Someone (Audio CD)

Playing Time - 39:38 -- Kenny Smith started his music career playing Southern Gospel music in churches. His rock solid guitar work with the Lonesome River Band from 1995-2001 twice led to his winning IBMA's "Guitar Player of the Year." Smith's solo project, "Studebaker," showcased his fine songwriting and wife's soulful singing. A couple years have now passed since Kenny and Amanda turned plenty of heads with their defining bluegrass album, "Slowly but Surely" (Farm Boy FBR-1001), that included band members Ronald Inscore, Jason Moore, Steve Huber, and Ron Stewart. It helped formulate the band's original, contemporary sound characterized by beautiful vocals, expert picking, solid arrangements, excellent repertoire, and high recording quality. It also resulted in the band winning IBMA's 2002 Emerging Artist of the Year award.

A couple years later in 2004, the versatile Kenny & Amanda Smith Band debuted on Rebel Records with their 2004 "House Down The Block" project. Now, in 2006, their first gospel CD, "Tell Someone," introduces us to three new young musicians in the band - Jason Robertson (mandolin), Jason Davis (banjo), Zachary McLamb (bass). All three are very solid instrumentalists, but one minor complaint is that I can hear some of McLamb's strings snapping on the fingerboard of his bass, particularly on the up-tempo numbers. While some of that would be acceptable in a secular bluegrass set, I found it just a tad distracting in a spiritually-tinged gospel set. Daniel Carwiles fiddles on seven of the tracks. Most of the band's vocal arrangements are sparse with only Kenny's tenor harmony below Amanda's lead vocal, but six tracks add a third harmony line courtesy of Rhonda Vincent (1 cut) or Wayne Winkle (5 cuts). The opening cut, "Shoutin' Time," illustrates the similarity between Amanda's and Rhonda's voices as they trade lead vocals on the first and second verses. Laying vocal harmonies in below Amanda's high lead gives the band a personalized sound.

The album features standards that Kenny and Amanda sang while growing up in church while also showcasing strong and effective compositions from more contemporary songwriters such as Craig Market's "Mary Had A Little Boy," Clay Hess' "I Know Why," and Richard Gulley's "Till I Get Home." The intent of making this CD was clearly for Kenny and Amanda to reach out and touch people by sharing messages of their Christian faith. Their poignant closer, "Tell Someone How Precious He Is," embodies the overriding theme of their ministry through music. While they had been planning to record a gospel album for over a decade, the impetus for the album was provided when Kenny's father died in a tractor accident in March, 2006. With their calm assurance and devout belief, they are ready to face tomorrow and the continued opportunities and challenges that life will bring. (Joe Ross, staff writer, Bluegrass Now)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Gospel Bluegrass CD, June 13, 2007

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C. Petrone "Radio user" (Glen Mills, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tell Someone (Audio CD)

This is a wonderful CD of Gospel bluegrass. Wonderful songs...beautiful voices. Wish they would do more Gospel Bluegrass CD's!

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Album!, April 29, 2008

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This review is from: Tell Someone (Audio CD)

This is really a great album. If you are a bluegrass fan, and a fan of gospel music, this is the album for you. I must admit, I am new to bluegrass gospel, but while traveling through Kentucky about a year ago, I came across a station playing this song, I immediately fell in love and purchased this album right away. It doesn't dissapoint. You will feel blessed after listening to this album.