Friday, January 23, 2009

Signature Sound's Cathedrals Tribute

Ernie Haase has been posting video clips of Signature Sound practicing songs for an upcoming Cathedrals tribute album. The clips seem to be working as far as getting fans excited about the idea. They will be shooting a video for the project this summer, as well. The songs that have been seen in the video clips so far are:
  • Movin’ Up to Gloryland
  • Life Will Be Sweeter Someday
  • Wonderful Grace of Jesus
  • I’m Gonna Live Forever
  • This Ole House
  • I Thirst
  • God Delivers Again
  • Champion of Love
  • Mexico
When Scott and Roger first started Legacy Five, the first project they did was a Cathedrals-based album. My biggest complain with Songs We Used To Sing, however, was that (with two exceptions) they simply recycled the original Cathedrals tracks and replaced the vocals. On songs where Roger or Scott were featured, you basically got the same song as before with new BGV's.

What excites me about EHSS's project is that, from what I can tell, every song gets a fresh recording, and they're not just carbon copies of the original tracks. I am especially impressed with what little I've heard of "Champion of Love;" Ryan Seaton gets to take the notoriously-challenging lead, and the arrangement sounds a lot smoother than the original track.

I'm hoping we can hear more samples of this project in the near future....if these clips are any indication, this should be quite a project!!
Posted by Kyle Boreing at 3:27 AM

1 comments:

quartet-man said...

Concerning using the same tracks, I have mixed feelings. Some were so well done that anything less won't be as good. For that matter, I doubt if they are because face it Signature Sound or Legacy Five are not the Cathedrals. I can appreciate them doing some songs on request at concert, or keeping their memory alive, but if you can't do it as well or better, drop it. ;-)

Actually though, I guess it has been around 9 years since the Cathedrals retired so it has been a decent amount of time. Either way, in some ways I think it better to make your own mark with your own material than doing a tribute album.

January 24, 2009 5:58 PM

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