Yesterday morning my gospel quartet spent three hours working on our CD. I set up the equipment in a large dining room which is open to our kitchen. It's a beautiful place to record, with glass on three sides and the sun streaming in in the morning. There's plenty of laughter to go with the singing. The guys get up here around 9:30-10:00 and we go downstairs to hear what we did the previous week on a good stereo system, then go back up to the dining room to eat breakfast and just enjoy each other's company. When we're recording, we make every mistake known to mankind and burst out into laughter when we do. We accept that we are people, not machines and the mistakes will come. And boy, do they ever. But, it's a good group of men and no matter how much we have to work to get the song right, we still have a good time. We don't have a separate track for the Spirit, but he sticks with us, no matter how many times we have to do the song over until it all finally comes together. My attitude toward singing is "why settle for being happy when you can be joyful?"

Jerry