This is a great CD -- both upbeat and uplifting -- a great combination for my workday listening!  HL, I love your voice....
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I was very pleasantly surprised by two things with this CD:
#1) hearing country music with a Christian message (how unique!) and #2) finding myself listening to it over and over (and for me, not the biggest country music fan, this was indeed a surprise!)
But what most impressed me were the beautiful and insightful lyrics.  HL you are truly blessed with a great talent in songwriting!
I loved everything about this CD and I am anxious to hear more!  You definitely have a BIG fan in me, HL!!!
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Howard Tapley,
This is a very easy listening album, which is radio friendly and up front, I have notice nerves in your voice, you need to just relax when you are singing to a mike, and this is not easy, I find that when you have an audiance, you can feel the vibes coming from them, but in a studio it is very differant, it's like doing an interview over the phone when you have never done it before, all your interviews have been face to face, and you can feel the vibes from the artist. This is the same as being in a studio, you have some great christian songs here and you will go along way, expect some great airplay worldwide, and wake up Nashville with their Rock Country if you can call it country music, I wonder at times, we have the same problem here in Australia, with ABC & EMI as the main contenders in the country music arena. We are finding that country music needs to rebirth itself, as it's more rock than country, Howard stay the way you are, you have a great voice, a little more tuning up with uptempo songs with some oomp, itto your style and you will make Nashville sit up and take notice where you are coming from.
Great album Howard.
This is my contact for any other artists who would love to be heard on radio in Australia, we also run a distribution network with over 50 + DJ's who will play your music & songs
Peterco Entertainment Promotions
Radio F.M.Country 97.4 FM 24hr Network
PO Box 3038, Tuross Head, NSW, Australia, 2537
E-mail: peterco-media@southernphone.com.au
Man/Dir: Dave Peters, CEO.
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Have you listened to country radio recently?  If you have then I am sure you have noticed the number of songs that express the artists Christian faith.  Josh Turner's Long Black Train, Randy Travis's Three Wooden Crosses and Buddy Guy's Help Pour Out the Rain are just a few of the great country songs that have climbed the charts that contain a strong faith based message.  It hasn't always been like this.  In 1990  H L Tapley began telling people in the Nashville music industry that Country music needed to get back to its Christian roots and presented songs like Something Different, Brand New Man and Heart as Hard as Steel to many of the then top country artists.  At the time the current trend in country music was dance mix music like Boot Scootin' Boogie by Brooks and Dunn and Honky Tonk Attitude by Joe Diffie.  The gate keepers in Nashville told HL that his songs were good songs but that a secular listening audience would not be interested in country music with a Christian message. After a couple of years of trying to convince everyone that  faith based country music was where the genre was headed he decided to record the songs himself as an independent artist.  Today Joe Diffie is singing Stronger than Nails and  Brooks and Dunn are singing Red Dirt Road. Both songs that show a strong Christian influence.  It's safe to say that that HL Tapley's CD Something Different was one of the first CDs of the genre.  Take a listen to the CD that helped start it all.
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