Crabb Family - Crabb Fest Live-2003 DVD/CD, CD Review

Mar

2004

Crabb Family - Crabb Fest Live-2003 DVD/CD

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Producer: Dottie Leonard Miller/Gerald & Kathy Crabb

Label: Daywind

Website: [url=http://www.thecrabbfamily.com]http://www.thecrabbfamily.com [/url] and [url=http://www.daywindrecords.com]http://www.daywindrecords.com [/url]

Riding high on the Crabb Family’s hugely successful annual CrabbFest Homecoming in Kentucky, they have released, through Daywind Records, sort of a “Best of CrabbFest 2003” CD and DVD. Featuring performances by the Crabb Family, there are also featured performances by Gerald Crabb and Mike Bowling along with fellow Daywind artists Brian Free & Assurance, LordSong, Perrys and Hoskins Family.

The Crabb Family starts off with their former #1 song, “DON’T YOU WANNA GO” and interspersed throughout the DVD and CD, we are treated with excellent performances by the Crabb Family on “PLEASE COME DOWN TO ME” (which shows some glimpses of a proud Gerald Crabb singing along off stage), “THE WALK”, “THE CROSS” (with Jason leading the crowd to a rendition of “The Old Rugged Cross"), “YOU LET THE LIGHT BACK IN” and their signature song, “THROUGH THE FIRE”.

As the recording moves along, Mike Bowling leads into a chorus of his former #1 song, “THE CALL” , and then quickly moves on to his more recent #1 song entitled, “I TAKE HIM BACK”. Gerald Crabb steps up later and sings his current charting song “HARD KNOCKS” from his solo recording “Roads That I’ve Traveled”.

Brian Free & Assurance turns in a classy performance on two of their recent chart songs, “WHEN WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN” and “SO CLOSE TO HOME” while LordSong takes their turn with their recent hit, “WHILE I WAIT” along with the title song of their current Daywind release, “I REFUSE TO BE AFRAID” .

The Perrys really ‘show out’ with “ DAMASCUS ROAD “ and “ CALVARY ANSWERS FOR ME”. They perform these songs with great conviction and the crowd seems to thoroughly enjoy them. The Hoskins Family are on top of their game as well with stellar performances with “WHEN THE SAVIOR WIPES THE TEARS FROM OUR EYES” and “SAFE THUS FAR”. In contrast with the DVD, the CD features an encore of the latter song.

Closing out the DVD (this song is not on the CD) as the whole Crabb clan gathers up on stage to sing the Gaither classic, “GOING HOME”.

With the exception of a couple of vocal slip-ups, these are flawless performances and makes for a great advertisement CD/DVD for CrabbFest 2004! Most of these songs were performed from the main stage during CrabbFest 2003, but Gerald Crabb, LordSong and the Hoskins Family were taped at the Showroom Lounge at the Executive Inn during the event. But no matter where at CrabbFest 2003 these artists were taped, the crowds are large and they are thoroughly ‘into’ each of the artist’s performances.

Some features you get on the DVD, that of course are not on CD, are a sneak peak at their Midnight Pajama Party while Aaron shares (with mud on his face!) his thoughts of Mike Bowling as they throw Mike a Birthday party and you also get a sneak peak inside the Crabb Family’s bus as Cameron Isaacs and Hope Bowling sing you a song. There are other scenes of CrabbFest on the DVD as well and like I said earlier, it all comes together to make for excellent advertising for CrabbFest 2004.

Reader Comments

Thanks for the awesome review of our CD/DVD. Our intent in recording CrabbFest was to capture the energy and feeling of the live performances. This provides the listener a new experience with each artist. We felt that "fixing" things in the studio would be inappropriate. Therefore, nothing on this record is "fixed." LordSong's performance on "While I Wait" was real and full of passion for the lyrics being sung. Being vocal perfectionists, they likely would have prefered to fix the part where one vocalist sings another part for two beats toward the end of the song, but they were not given that opportunity. We truly appreciate this forum because it gives us great feedback on the records we make. Thank you for caring about our artists' music.

Commented by On 04/21/2004

I have both the DVD and the CD and I enjoy them both so much! I really enjoyed having other artist on the DVD/CD, even though the Crabb Family are my favorite it was nice to see other groups as well especially the Perrys!! I can't wait for CRABBFEST 2004!!

Commented by On 04/26/2004

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