[8] In 1989 Jake's nephew Steve Hess & Eugene Baker (Hess & Baker, Skylite/Sing) were in Nashville to record several segments on Bobby Jones Gospel (BET Network). This browser does not support getting your location. Most fundamentalists and many conservative evangelicals believe this return will be presaged by certain historical events, including cataclysmic conflict between Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land, the rise of Anti-Christ, and the emergence of a one-world order. Learn more about merges. She was an extremely happy child with bright eyes and an infectious open mouthed smile. Sunday services to reach the unchurched through polished music, multimedia, and sermons referencing popular culture and other familiar themes. "[citation needed] In 1997, when Hess was preparing to get a passport to travel overseas, he discovered that his birth certificate actually read Manchild Hess. We loved Jake and all of you. God Bless and keep you. He was a blessing to us. He was 76. He was a founding member of the National Quartet Convention and received a Life Achievement Award from SESAC. Thank you Jake for your Music. Although the male quartet continued to dominate southern gospel's self-image, the genre as a commercial enterprise became home for strains of more traditional white evangelical vernacular sacred musics, including explicitly pietistic bluegrass and country gospel. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. For discussions of the Traveler trope see ". As a pre-teen I used to go to the V.F.W. Drag images here or select from your computer for Emily Joyce McWaters Hess memorial. Includes Address(11) Phone(4 . we Miss you, but God needed you. Thanks for your help! Fortunately, new and forthcoming work in the study of southern gospel is beginning to scrutinize Gloria Gaither's role as a Christian entrepreneur, thinker, and writer much more closely. Our heartfelt sympathy to the Hess Family. July 30, 2013. http://www.religiondispatches.org/books/culture/6221/the_gospel_ church_and_the_ruining_of_gay_lives__an_interview_with_anthony_heilbut/. Failed to delete memorial. These were his family by blood, but Jake also leaves behind Bill and Gloria Gaither and all of his "Homecoming" friends. The Martins are a Christian music vocal trio composed of three siblings: Joyce Martin Sanders, Jonathan Martin, and Judy Martin Hess. In 1977, Jake sang at Elvis' funeral, just as he had at services for Hank Williams in 1953. Jake was one of my very first heroes. Through it all, Jake told Elvis that he only wanted to be his friend. "The Gospel Church and the Ruining of Gay Lives: An Interview with Anthony Heilbut," interview by Douglas Harrison. To add a flower, click the Leave a Flower button. I just know that she is now enjoying him singing in heaven right now. Lovingly, J.W. Survivors include his daughter, Becky, and husband, Brent Buck of Columbus; son, Chris, and wife, Cindy, of Columbus; son, Jake Jr., and wife Judy, of Murfreesboro, Tenn.; 10 grandchildren, Emily Trotter and husband Jim, Brent Buck, Lauren Buck, Ansley Buck, Megan Hess, Natalie Hess, Casey Hess, Jake Hess III, Hannah Hess and Emma Hess; one great-grandchild, James Purdy (Bo) Trotter IV; and a sister, OmaDee of Haleyville. With the dissolution of the "Christian-cultural synthesis," fundamentalists, Noll concludes, "made a virtue of their alienation. Photograph by Judy Baxter. [1] Contents 1 Life 2 Career 2.1 Statesmen Quartet 2.2 The Imperials 2.3 The Jake Hess Sound 2.4 With Elvis Presley 2.5 Solo career 2.6 Television 3 Family 4 Book 5 Death 6 Awards and honors 7 Discography 7.1 Solo albums Judy M Hess, 51. This is My Story presents 146 of the most beloved gospel singers. The southern gospel condemnation of CCM has long and deep roots.28Although CCM borrows heavily from mainstream secular music and performance styles, it does so to cultivate a canon of popular music that signifies Christianity's cultural relevance and the music's evangelistic savvy, while claiming a special status derived from CCM's pious commitments to conservative evangelical values and theological positions. Jake accompanied them to the studio and liked what he heard. Amen Bill. Explored through the Martins, how do non-musical categories of knowledge, patterns of affiliation, and cultural valuessuch as sense of placehelp clarify, sustain, or revalue religious music traditions, identities, subject positions, and the ideological commitments those traditions encompass? They live in Columbus, Georgia, and have five children. . This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. I have loved Jake's singing for 50 years. Directed by Bill Gaither. Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music. . Also known as Judy Lynn Martin. LOW HIGH. Its fans and participants aspire to transcend or dissolve regional expectations, theological boundaries, and denominational classifications. I will miss you. Its primitive construction and the faded color photo intensify the contrast between rustic lifeways and the warmly lit, generously appointed, and contemporarily decorated set in which The Martins appear comfortable, coiffed, and professionally poised. The piano was delivered to that church on Sunday after the singing on Saturday. As a result, the southern gospel group the Masters V was born. Try again later. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_35', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_35').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); The National Quartet Convention, southern gospel's annual flagship event that at its height in the mid-1990s drew crowds approaching 25,000 for four or five nights in a row, no longer attracts audiences or interest to warrant multiyear leases with the Kentucky Fair and Expo Center in Louisville. This account has been disabled. Gospel music has truly lost a legend. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_3', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_3').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); The seven-shape notational system (and culture) of songwriting, singing, and music education that took root in the southern uplands in the late 1800s has heavily influenced the music of southern gospel and its values.4Here, following Loyal Jones, "Southern Uplands" designates the regions and people of trans-Appalachia and extends eastward into the Piedmont and westward to the Ozarks. In 1977-1978 Hess reunited with the surviving members of The Statesmen Quartet, Hovie Lister, Doy Ott, and Rosie Rozell to record three projects, including "Songs Elvis Loved". Over the years, he received numerous honors. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_36', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_36').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); This retreat from metropolis to outpost acknowledges that southern gospel is no longer a national phenomenon.37 Douglas Harrison, "Slouching Toward Pigeon Forge." He was a blessing to us with his smiles and his singing. My heart is breaking-Jake was my friend for 55 years. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_7', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_7').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); "southern gospel" brings with it additional layers of interpretive complication regarding race, class, and geography. You were a blessing to the world. Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009), 5. I have so much history with this amazing young man. Jake Hess III Judy Nelon August 1, 2017 Jake Hess III, not only gets his family musical talent but more than that he has the families humble personality. Southern gospel's negotiation of them has often manifested in overt racism or a way of thinking, talking, and singing that renders whiteness falsely normative. To our Lord, thank you for giving us Jake - his song, his smile and his spirit. Jake's daughter remembers the occasion where the piano was moved to the center of the auditorium and all four of the Statemen were singing on top of the piano. Kevin Kehrberg generously included me on a panel he organized on shape-note gospel and its half lives in Arkansas and beyond, and Meredith Doster encouraged me to expand the paper into a submission for Southern Spaces. . The result has been labeled simply as Martin Music. April 13, 2013, accessed October 15, 2013, http://bber.unm.edu/. The Martins's singing by the sea resonates with the disjunction of three "kids" from a cold-water backwoods shack harmonizing in an exotic locale with an international gospel touring company. He was a true gentleman and a Gospel legend. He won four Grammy Awards: for "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" in 1968, for "Ain't That Beautiful Singing" in 1969, for "Everything Is Beautiful" in 1970, and for "The Masters V" in 1982. Joyce Martin Sanders, Jonathan Martin, and Judy Martin Hess are a vocal group from Arkansas. Joyce: We went to Indianapolis [in 1992] with Michael English and Mark Lowry [of the Gaither Vocal Band and the Gaithers' inner circle]. [1], The son of "a sharecropper who was a shape-note singing-school teacher," Hess was born in Mt. You can always change this later in your Account settings. Mark Five, [no identifying number]. Son Chris was born on December 17, 1955, and was named after one of Jake's brothers. For an extended discussion of "southern gospel" see, Douglas Harrison. A system error has occurred. "Northern urban" gospel is the historical forerunner of today's Contemporary Christian Music (CCM). Get the Latest Updates with the News 3 App! "51Harrison, Then Sings My Soul, 5. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_51', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_51').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); As The Martins achieved fame and renown, they did so less because of what and how they sang, and more because of the way in which they have presented themselves and their music, and the way the Gaither Homecoming appropriated them as children of traditional gospel values at a moment when the viability of these values was perceived to be in question. 1.80 3.81 /5. Pisgah, Ala., the youngest of 12 children born to the late Stovall and Lydia Hess of Haleyville, Ala. At one point in the interview with The Martins, Gaither describes their music as "sophisticated," and Judy Martin Hess jokes that Gaither was not saying The Martins themselves are sophisticated, only their music. Recent Episodes Molly Worthen has mapped contemporary evangelicalism's uneasy relationship with post-modernity and religious self concept. And that was actually the first time Bill heard us sing. When visited in the hospital or at home, Jake wore his baseball cap. Similarly, Gerald Wolfe, also originally a pianist for the Cathedral Quartet and subsequently the owner and emcee of his own professional trio, Greater Vision, was famously plucked from obscurity (or so the story went onstage in his early years as a performer) while singing with the Dumplin' Valley Boys.49References to Bennett's birthplace in Strawberry, Arkansas, were staples of Cathedrals concerts, several of which I attended, in the 1980s and 1990s. For more on cultural-geographic conceptualizations of place, see John Agnew, The United States in the World Economy: A Regional Geography (London: Cambridge University Press, 1987), and Cresswell, Place. I can't think of a time that I saw him when he wasn't smiling or crying tears of joy. Directed by Debra Granik. Jake Hess is on findagrave.com in the "famous" section. Jake was born Dec. 24, 1927, in Mt. They live in Columbus, Georgia, and have five children. Researched in the 1990s and published in 2002, Close Harmony traces the music's development from the nineteenth century. Christ's return coincides with the rapture of living Christians and the raising of the righteous dead to heaven. There will never be another voice like Jake's. He and Mrs. Hess always impressed us in the fact that even though Jake was who he was in his profession, they were always just mama & daddy to their family and showed such love. "17On "lived religion," see David D. Hall, Lived Religion: Toward a History of Practice (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), 321. I thought you might like to see a memorial for Emily Joyce McWaters Hess I found on Findagrave.com. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_1', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_1').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); In its modern, commercial form, southern gospel emerges "from a broad-based, post-Civil War recreational culture built around singing schools and community (or 'convention') singings popular among poor and working-class whites throughout the South and Midwest. For more on southern gospel's shift within Christian entertainment from a "dominant" to a "residual" status, see Harrison, "Seeker" sensitive models of congregational development and worship emerged in the 1970s and 1980s as part of the so-called church-growth movement, an organized effort to expand church membership and participation beyond traditional populations. Nor is its cultural function exclusively or even primarily of scholarly interest for what it may tell us about southern whiteness in an ever more racially diverse and pluralistic world. Through Thick and Thin. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_60', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_60').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); What emerges in The Martins's interview echoes Anthony Harkins's observations about constructed hillbilly rusticity: "Middle-class white Americans [can] see these people [hillbillies] as a fascinating and exotic 'other' akin to Native Americans or Blacks, while at the same time sympathize with them as poorer and less modern versions of themselves. We call Jake III "Trip" from the time he was born. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. Douglas Harrison is Associate Professor of English and Assistant Director of the Center for Faculty Innovation at James Madison University. Make sure that the file is a photo. Thank you. Whether its trying to find your range or trying to find correct placement shes pushed me to do my best and to try my hardest.. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. Color me. Only eternity will reveal the lives Jake Hess has touched. (Jennifer Jones, "Natalie Grant Responds after Leaving Grammys Early," Christianitytoday.com, January 29, 2014, accessed January 31, 2014, http://www.christiantoday.com/article/mass.wedding.at. We will miss him greatly but he is having the greatest Homecoming ever! I think as a vocalist he was bar none, he was the best, says the youngest Jake Hess. There is 1 volunteer for this cemetery. Anti-aging serums in particular offer many benefits to aging and mature skin. Jake in a casual manner and loved him andthe music he shaared with the world. In cultural geography, "sense of place" refers to the feelings and emotions a place evokes and that help constitute it.14Tim Cresswell, Place: A Short Introduction (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004), 169. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_14', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_14').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); More than just feelings or emotions, such sense of place encompasses perceptions, assumptions, and habits of thought and behavior of people who are part of a place. Jake Hess was an idol of Elvis Presley, and had a major influence on Presley's career. As Jake sang, "We are so blessed" and we are. I used to go to the wings when the. Southern gospel denotes "an overlapping, commercialized national network of musical products, professionals, and their fans, commonly referred to as 'the industry'" (Harrison, Then Sings My Soul, 45). Just as significantly, while From Kentucky With Love, or From the Smoky Mountains With Love, would probably be received with the same warmth and enthusiasm that greeted The Martins's music, the precise structure of a Kentucky imaginary or a Smoky Mountain imaginary would be located in the meaning-making of those places. As a part of The Martins, Judy has received a Grammy nomination, multiple Dove Awards, and countless fan awards. Hess and Joyce McWaters were married on October 5, 1952. Gaither Gospel Series DVD cover. We will miss Jake's beautiful music and humble, sweet spirit. His mom (Judy Martin) and Dad (Jake Jr) courted here at my house. [7], Hess and Joyce McWaters were married on October 5, 1952. )[4] After that, he sang with three of his brothers as the Hess Brothers Quartet. Our deepest sympathy goes out to the entire family, and our prayers that God will strengthen you in this time of sorrow. Dayton, The Theological Roots of Pentecostalism (Grand Rapids: Francis Asbury Press, 1987); and Dodrill, "Evangelicalism Examined . But so too are there imaginaries rooted in the history, mores, and culture of more particular geographies requiring study to understand their cultural formations and uses. My cousin called various churches until he found one that was in need of a piano. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_33', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_33').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); Southern gospel product sales also experienced what now appears to be a last-gasp micro-surge of popularity, with market shares reaching an inflection point somewhere in the mid1990s, followed by a precipitous sales decline by as much as 90 percent in the decade between 2000 and 2010.34Goff's remains the most extensive and influential account of southern gospel's market decline. jake hess was my hero. And see Jos Casanova, Public Religions in the Modern World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994). And I've never been more sure of the path I've chosen." I would like to know about recording artists, The Martins. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. or don't show this againI am good at figuring things out. I will always remember the way I felt when Mr. Hess would sing a song. Stephen Marini has provided the most sustained interpretive examination of bluegrass families in southern gospel: Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music, and Public Culture (UrbanaChampaign: University of Illinois Press, 2003), 296320. Bio. We believe heaven's choir just became louder and clearer in song. The history and role of bluegrass, old-time, and mountain musics, particularly songs with pietistic lyrics that have found a home in southern gospel, is understudied. In its resurgence, one hears from the gospel stage and in other acts of self-representation an intensification of emphasis on social resentment and cultural grievance. He was a friend of the Wilson family going back to his days singing with the Statesmen.We will hear him sing again in heaven one day. There is also the sense that The Martins's appeal reaches across the spectrum of religious beliefs and musical tastes that form the conservative end of the white Christian music entertainment market. Music publishers of seven-shape notational gospel music and the convention singing tradition to which these publishers catered were familiar with the term for much of the twentieth century. "2Ibid., 2. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_2', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_2').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); This tradition is distinctive for its cultivation of close harmony sung in ensemblestraditionally male quartets, a formation that dominated the commercial sector of southern gospel through roughly the first half of the twentieth century, and more recently, mixed-gender foursomes and trios, often comprising family members.3Today's professional southern gospel includes many family and mixed gender foursomes and trios, configurations that were and are common in the singing convention world that dominated southern gospel in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. I loved to hear Jake sing, he will be missed. Although southern gospel is undoubtedly white, not all white gospel is southern, and not all gospel of the US South is white.11Following Harry Eskew's lead in the Grove Music entry for Gospel Music, Stephen Shearon uses "northern urban" gospel to designate commercial Christian music of and for primarily white Protestants that emerged in the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century revivalism in urban areas outside the South. See you one day in Heaven. In 2002, Jonathan left the group in order to spend more time with his family. You have chosen this person to be their own family member. Jake continues to walk the musical path laid down by his grandfather, but he also says he believes his music serves a higher purpose. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_4', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_4').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); This musical culture subsequently spread across trans-Appalachia, and then later throughout the Midwest, Southwest, and, after the Great Migration of white southerners in the postWorld War II era, into other parts of the United States influenced by southern migration. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_47', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_47').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); Yet The Martins remain beloved members of the Homecoming cast and reputational avatars of gospel traditionalism carried on in the music of a new generation of songbirds. The couple had known each other from his touring, and after two dates, she agreed to marry him six weeks later, on October 5, 1952. Evangelicals and fundamentalists have never agreed on how best to live out the scriptural directive that Christians be in the world, but not of it. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. We knew Bro. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. We are very sad, but im sure Jake and Vestal and Howard Goodman and all that have gone on before are singing those heavenly songs only the saints that have gone on know, And I am sure he would want us rejoicing that he is with His lovely wife and Jesus and all the angels. Audiocassette. Heilbut notes that this vibrancy is driven by the rise of name-it-and-claim-it prosperity gospel in the black church, which is intensely homophobic and discourages its members from thinking in "broad sociological" categories in favor of a self-aggrandizing theology that links spiritual well-being with personal wealth (See "The Gospel Church and the Ruining of Gay Lives: An Interview with Anthony Heilbut," interview by Douglas Harrison, ReligionDispatches.com, July 30, 2013, accessed January 28, 2014, http://www.religiondispatches.org/books/culture/6221/the_gospel_church_and_the_ruining_of_gay_lives%3 A_an_interview_with_anthony_heilbut/; and Heilbut, The Fan Who Knew Too Much: Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations [New York: Knopf, 2012]). He was an inspiration to many. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_42', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_42').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); Each video or concert is a variation on a format: Bill and Gloria Gaither invite many of the aging stars of southern gospel's mid-twentieth-century golden age to join them and their musical friends, peers, and rising stars from southern gospel and a range of subgenres on the more traditional and conventional sides of North American Christian musiccountry gospel, bluegrass, inspirational, and choral and hymnody. In 1989 Jake's nephew Steve Hess & Eugene Baker (Hess & Baker, Skylite/Sing) were in Nashville to record several segments on Bobby Jones Gospel (BET Network). Jake Hess was born on December 24, 1927 in United States (93 years o We love you. Beyond the style it captures, this clip points to the structures of thought and feeling that underlie The Martins's appeal and southern gospel music more generally. Professional black gospel, which has a historically longstanding relationship with African American worship traditions to a much greater extent than commercial white Christian music has with white Protestant churches, has remained creatively vibrant. You have inspired us to do the same. Of the home of her daughter. 5 [September, 1996]: 386405). My Mother took me to hear Jake Hess from the time I was born 48 years ago. Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager. So, we're in the little church in Anderson, Indiana, and they are rehearsing for the next day and we're in the foyer. Los Angeles, CA: Roadside Attractions, 2010. Within southern gospel, perhaps the most polarizing figure thought to embody this accommodationist dynamic is Amy Grant, who began as a CCM ingnue ("Father's Eyes," "El Shaddai" and "Angels") and subsequently landed crossover hits in American pop during the 1980s (her debut outside of CCM came in a duet with Peter Cetera, "The Next Time I Fall In Love"). I learned a lot about part singing with the group that I sang with, Jake says. (See Harrison, Then Sings My Soul, 182183). Comparatively little has been published about The Martins's biography beyond birth, marriages, and professional accomplishments.41The basic details provided here derive largely from The Martins's disclosures on stage, press coverage, conservations I have had with industry professionals, and my experience. This period was followed by the mobilization of right-leaning Protestants (and many conservative Catholics) into a political base for the Republican Party in the Reagan Era and a power base for evangelical leaders (including Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, Pat Robertson'sand later Ralph Reed'sChristian Coalition, and, more recently, Donald Wildmon's American Family Association, and Tony Perkins's Family Research Council); and the not-entirely unrelated realignments within conservative and fundamentalist Protestantism wrought by the rise of non-denominational evangelical mega-churches and the Tea Party. November 13, 2001, accessed September 23, 2013, http://www.crosswalk.com/1108828/. Copyright 2023 TBN - Trinity Broadcasting Network. To this day I still listen to Jake's wonderful music. Jonathan Martin and his wife, Dara, live in Des Moines with their six children (Craig Harris, "Martins Storm Back onto the Scene," sgnscoops.com, December 17, 2013 [accessed January 31, 2014)]. These were "places so divorced from the frenzied modernization of twentieth-century America" that they presented an easily caricatured type from which to generalize about the state as a whole.59Ibid., 516, 67. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_59', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_59').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); The conflation of The Martins's southern Arkansas bayou background with upstate Ozark hillbillyism emerges through the rhetoric of Bill Gaither as host and interlocutor. See Shearon, email to H-Southern Music Network mailing list, March 27, 2009. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_12', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_12').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); Of course, race is never far from any discussion of southern cultures, but it is also true that, in southern gospel, "overmuch emphasis on black-white polarities diminishes our understanding of cultural dynamics submerged beneath the surface of the music. God bless you. It was Mark, Mike, of course the three Martins, Gloria and two or three other people. Just as I Am: 30 Favorite Old Time Hymns, was nominated for a 1998 Grammy in the same category. 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