Oregon Bluegrass Assoc. Gospel Show, Three Bands, 1-20-2007 (SBD)

The Sonny Hammond Memorial Gospel Show is an annual event, and fundraiser for the Oregon Bluegrass Association. It appears it is held at a church and this version has three bluegrass bands all doing gospel bluegrass. The bands are Fiddlegrass, Lee Highway, and Prairie Flyer. It fits on two CDs with the first two bands on CD one and the third on CD two.  This has some nice picking and the quality is very good. The first two bands are members of the Oregon Bluegrass Association. The third band did not show up on their website but appears to be from Washington. My friend Iggy should like this one, because it is a local show for him, being up in Forest Grove near Portland.

Sonny Hammond Memorial

Oregon Bluegrass Assoc. Gospel Show

Central Bible Church

Fiddlegrass

Central Bible Church

Portland, OR

1-20-2007

Soundboard

Chuck Haynie - banjo and vocals

Donna Reuter - fiddle and vocals

Doug Ward - dobro, guitar, and vocals

Lorri Connolly - mandolin, fiddle, and vocals

Guest players -

Bob Connolly - guitar and vocals

Holly Wyman - bass

01- intro

02- Amazing Grace

03- I Saw The Light

04- Hallelujah, I'm Ready To Go

05- If You Don't Love Your Neighbor, Then You Don't Love God

06- Wayfaring Stranger

07- Mansion On A Hilltop

08- When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder

09- The Old Rugged Cross

10- Cryin' Holy Unto The Lord

Lee Highway

Central Bible Church

Portland, OR

1-20-2007

Soundboard

John Averill - mandolin and vocals

Rich Hoglen - guitar and vocals

Sue Averill - bass and vocals

Mike Eisler - fiddle and vocals

Mike Stahlman - banjo, guitar, and vocals

01- intro

02- Take Me In Your Lifeboat

03- The Little Community Church

04- I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap

05- God Loves His Children

06- Give Mother My Crown

07- band intros

08- Let's Walk Along Together

09- The Stone The Builders Refused

10- Shine Hallelujah Shine

11- What A Friend We Have In Jesus

12- When He Reached Down His Hand For Me

13- So Happy I'll Be

14- Cryin' Holy Unto The Lord

Prairie Flyer

Central Bible Church

Portland, OR

1-20-2007

Soundboard

Jim Faddis - guitar and vocals

Andre Vachon - mandolin and vocals

Jason Stewart - banjo and vocals

Dave Hackwith - bass and vocals

Steve Blanchard - guitar

01- intro

02- The Old Crossroads

03- Calling My Children Home

04- I'll See You In Heaven (1st Time Played)

05- I Was There When It Happened (1)

06- Take Your Shoes Off Moses Your On Holy Ground

07- Who Will Sing One Song For Me

08- Be Assured

09- I Can't Feel At Home In This World Anymore

10- When I Get Home

11- I Saw The Light

12- band intros

13- House of Gold

14- Pilgrim

15- Travelin' The Highway Home (1)

Encore: (2)

16- I'll Fly Away

17- Will The Circle Be Unbroken

(1) = w/ Clyde Clevenger on mandolin and vocals

(2) = encore was various members of all 3 bands, plus Clyde Clevenger and

MC Mason Smith

Mp3/256k

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Fare you well, fare you well, I love you more than words can tell

My father was born in New York. He joined the Navy in World War Two as an electricians mate. He got a degree in electrical engineering and after the war moved to Arizona. He married my mother shortly after that. Dad's first job after the war was surveying for power lines for Arizona Public Service. He surveyed for the first power into Phantom Ranch in the Grand Canyon, and the first power in to Crown King as well as power coming off the rim into Sedona, and power lines across Mingus Mountain running from Prescott to Jerome. He saw every corner of this state, before much development happened.  He was on the first planing and zoning commission for Scottsdale Arizona. During this time in Scottsdale my mom and him were blessed with three children. My father latter got a job with General Electric where he got in on the ground floor of the computer industry and after a while was involved with projects including computer systems for the French government, Saudi Arabian government, as well as the IRS. Latter on we moved to New York and then to California where he worked for Xerox. This was how a kid who was born in Arizona went to high school in California.  Finally he cut ties with big cooperate work and bought a Delicatessen on the beach in Ventura California, and followed his passion for cooking and fine food and developed his business into two stores and a large catering business. Finally Dad sold the business and his house and bought a motor home and my mom and him traveled for several years. It was during this time he got involved in the tour guide business, working for Caravans De Mexico out of El Paso Texas, giving RV tours down to Mexico. He soon was also working for other tour companies doing western states National Park tours. during this time my mom was perfecting her skills doing fine art oil paintings. Eventually they decided to stop traveling and let my mother pursue her dream of being and artist. They picked Cottonwood Arizona as the place to settle. My mom and dad started an art supply store and studio and my mom sold paintings, did framing and matting, and taught painting, while my father ran the art supply store.  During this time my father got a job with an over seas tour company and got paid to give tours to Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti and Fiji, he also gave 36 day tours to South America. About 16 years ago my father's earlier smoking habit caught up with him and he was diagnosed with emphysema.  It was around this time I moved here to Cottonwood with my wife to help out my parents.  From there on he had a slow decline until finally he was completely house bound and wheel chair bound about seven years ago. 20 months ago he was no longer even able to get out of bed, where he has been since.  My mom has been lovenly caring for him this whole time.  Finally at around 10:00 on May 21st 2011 dad passed away in his sleep at home. He was a great husband to my mom, and was a great father to me and my sisters giving us a jump start in life so we had great opportunities. He taught me a lot about many things, including cooking, working with my hands, but most of all how to love living. He love good food, drink, and music, but most of all he loved my mother.

Fare you well my honey
Fare you well my only true one
All the birds that were singing
Have flown except you alone

Goin to leave this Broke-down Palace
On my hands and my knees I will roll roll roll
Make myself a bed by the waterside
In my time - in my time - I will roll roll roll

In a bed, in a bed
by the waterside I will lay my head
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul

River gonna take me
Sing me sweet and sleepy
Sing me sweet and sleepy
all the way back back home
It's a far gone lullaby
sung many years ago
Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come
since I first left home

Goin home, goin home
by the waterside I will rest my bones
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul

Goin to plant a weeping willow
On the banks green edge it will grow grow grow
Sing a lullaby beside the water
Lovers come and go - the river roll roll roll

Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul

Brokedown Palace

Thanks to all those who have prayed and shown compasion. It means so much!

The Gospel Message Hidden in Genesis 5?

I have read through the bible now several times, and each time I see something else.  Most of the times through Genesis I just skim over Genesis 5 but even in this un assuming passage there is something very interesting hidden inside.  Genesis 5 is the written account of Adam’s family line leading up to Noah, and it goes like this
      When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.  After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.   Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.
   When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father  of Enosh.   After he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.  Altogether, Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.
   When Enosh had lived 90 years, he became the father of Kenan.   After he became the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.   Altogether, Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.   And so on until you get to Noah. 
 
So there are 10 names of guys that lived and died (except Enoch) who was raised up.  (That is another thing of interest in this simple chapter, that I already wrote about  http://arizjones.blogspot.com/2010/07/was-not-or-i-am.html )  So there are ten names rattled off like a list, kind of boring I always thought.   
But hidden in it is something interesting.  You see all the names have a meaning, like Adam means man.  So what happens when we put together the names meanings?
 
Adam = Man
Seth = Appointed
Enosh = Mortal
Kenan = Sorrow
Mahalalel = The Blessed God
Jared = Shall come down
Enoch = Teaching
Methuselah = His death shall bring
Lamech = The Despairing
Noah = Rest, or comfort.

Put it together and you have the Gospel Message. In a nice short compact version.
I think that's rather remarkable! 

Man (is) appointed mortal sorrow; (but) the Blessed God shall come down teaching (that) His death shall bring (the) despairing rest or comfort.

Here's the Gospel hidden within a genealogy only five short chapters into the first book of the bible. 

   You will never convince me that a group of Jewish rabbis conspired to hide the Christian Gospel right here in a genealogy within their venerated Torah.  Or that Moses somehow knew to do this before he even knew there would be messiah that would die for our sin.  It is just one more thing that shows an incredible interconnection and unity of this book that was written by forty different people in different languages and times.  over thousands of years.