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Sing It Again
Our latest project, "Sing It Again" is here and is doing extremely well!  This is the first project that Randy is featured on and we think he did a superb job.  We went to Nashville to record this one and had some of the finest Nashville musicians to play on it, including the renowned Gordon Mote on piano.  Bryan and Jeremy played on it as well and had a blast recording the music tracks.  Produced by Louie and Susan Swift and engineered by Howard Hibbett, "Sing It Again" is quickly becoming one of our best selling projects!  They are available at our concert table and will be in our online store when it opens.
 

 
Lightning hits our sound equipment!
To most Nashville, TN residents, May 2, 2010 will be written down in history as the worst flood in centuries.  Everyone in the area was affected by it in some form or fashion.  Even our studio engineer, Howard Hibbett told me although he suffered no damage to his home or studio, he was trapped in his neighborhood by the flood waters.
 
May 2, 2010 also went down in history for TKMQ.  As the storms moved through Nashville, they swept through Graysville, AL where we were singing that Sunday.  We were at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, pastored by our dear friend Gene Shelton, singing at their homecoming and noticed that the rain picked up considerably.  Arvil was looking out the front doors while Kevin was singing "I Won't Walk Without Jesus" and said, "As soon as Kevin sang the part of the verse that said 'Then teardrops came like rain a'fallin'', the rain really did started falling outside!"  But it was during the second verse of that song when a bolt of lightning hit somewhere behind the church and ran all through our sound system.  It didn't knock the lights off nor did it affect the monitors, so we didn't think anything happened.  We finished up the song and that's when we realized something bad had happened.  Margaret Shelton told us she saw blue sparks fly out of one of our speakers and couldn't hear anything after the lightning hit.  Sure enough, both of them were dead and so were our subs.  We turned our monitors around toward the congregation and finished up the singing.  After a quick assessment of the situation afterwards, the lightning hit both powered house speakers and ran straight to the crossover because the subs themselves were working when Jeremy connected them straight out of his bass amp.  Our sub amp was hit as well but we didn't discover it until we set up for our next singing at Kilgore Hardware's 50th anniversary two weeks later.  The speaker that flew sparks had a hole blown out of the speaker cone inside, and had a melted circuit board as well.  Jeremy and I discussed what to do if our powered speakers couldn't be repaired, and we both quickly came to the same conclusion; Yamaha passive top cabinet speakers!  We already were using custom built Yamaha 18" subs and we both had used Yamaha tops before, so going with a matched set of speakers was the logical choice.  We presented our recommendations to the rest of the guys and they liked it.  And thanks to Jeremy's connections at the music stores in the Shoals area, we were able to get everything we needed for less than half of retail!  There's something else we purchased that we want to highly recommend to everyone.  Peavey has developed technology in their power amps that will produce 400W @ 8 ohms per channel and only weighs 7 pounds.  That's right, SEVEN POUNDS!  We have two of them in our rack right now and it is so much lighter.  It really makes maneuvering it around on stage a lot easier.  We loved our old QSC amp but we didn't love the weight, as most of you who have handled audio equipment can attest.
 
This is just another example of how Satan tries to stop our ministry but we have determined in our hearts and lives that it will not happen, as long as we depend on the Lord to see us through anything Satan throws at us.  And he is extremely creative in what he comes up with too!  Arvil even said, "Out of the 41 years The King's Messengers has been singing, this is the first time lightning has blown up our equipment!"  To God be the glory!
 

 
New Project
Since Randy Toone joined us, we have wanted to go back into the studio to capture the vintage sound we have now, and to commemorate our 40th anniversary.  We have talked to several record companies and producers and we think we have found the one.  We will keep you informed of any further developments.
 

 
Our 40th Anniversary Homecoming
We have been singing the Gospel for 40 years, and what an incredible journey it has been!  From our humble beginnings back in February 1969 to May 2009, God has been with us every step of the way.  During our 40th Anniversary Homecoming, Arvil and Alan were both presented with appreciation awards for their unwavering dedication and service for 40 years of singing the gospel.  The original King's Messengers were on hand to sing a few of their well known songs.  Although Billy Smith has gone on to meet the Lord, his voice was clearly heard through Randy, making this year's reunion complete.  Danny Austin, Trillman Steele and former bass guitarist Randy Cagle all made an appearance, an event that hasn't happened in several years.   We have determined to sing as long as the Lord will let us, and we hope it will be a very long time!
 
Click here to see more pictures from the anniversary concert.
 

 
Introducing Our Brand New Website
Our website gets a facelift!  We are proud to announce our new website with a fresh new look.  It was designed for easier navigation and with a more modern look, plus Bryan says this new layout is easier to maintain than our old website.  There were some improvements made to the guestbook, and a scripture lookup tool provided by BibleGateway.com was added.  Tell us what you think about our new website by signing our new guestbook here.  As always, thank you for being such loyal fans and supporters!
 

 
Randy Toone Joins The King's Messengers Quartet
We are proud to announce the addition of our new tenor singer, Randy Toone.  Whenever you hear him nobody would ever guess that this is his first time singing tenor - EVER!  His first singing with The King's Messengers was June 8, 2008.

 
Randy and Kevin sang years ago in another quartet in which Randy sang lead.  He had been out of the singing world for quite some time, and it wasn't until the spring of 2008 that the burning desire to sing again rose up in him.  For a long time he was hesitant to approach us but when he did, it was evident that God was working in his life.  To us, it was like Randy stepped in from out of nowhere and made the tenor position his own.

 
Arvil Nix comments, "Randy is such an amazing singer!  Whenever I hear him sing, I can't get over how much he sounds like our original tenor, Billy Smith."

 
Randy and his wife Katrina have two children, Randall, Jr. (now deceased) and Rachel, and reside in Caddo, AL.

 
Brand New Project
Our latest project "Change" has been quite a departure from the TKMQ norm, but it is holding it's own.  This project features ten relatively new songs to us, two of which have never been recorded before.  Songs include "Waymaker" (featuring our bass Kevin Hood) and "A Better Land" written by a gifted songwriter, Doris May of Nashville, TN.  Alan sings the powerful ballad, "Jesus Is His Name" which has a contemporary feel.  Arvil is featured on "I Have No Doubt" and the patriotic "In God We Still Trust" introduced to the Country Music recording industry by Diamond Rio.  This song has such an awesome message about our country's freedom bestowed upon us by God that it has crossed over into the Southern Gospel genre of music.

 
"Change" was recorded and produced at Lamp Music in Whitesburg, GA.  Mike and Rhonda Pillow were gracious enough to put up with us each time we traveled out there to record vocals, and made us feel at home every time.  Our thanks goes out to them.

 
"Change" is now available at our product table and in our online store (coming soon).