Gaither Homecoming

[1] On February 19, 1992, the Gaither Vocal Band had just wrapped up a recording session in a Nashville, Tennessee, working on an album called Homecoming, which featured many of the great voices of southern gospel music: The Speers, The Gatlins, Jake Hess, The Cathedrals, Howard & Vestal Goodman, Buck Rambo, Eva Mae Lefevre, James Blackwood, Hovie Lister, Jim Hill, and J.D.

After the session, the artists stayed around to chat, swap stories and sing old standards around the piano.

The recording was so well received that Gaither began a series of professionally produced videos with larger gatherings of gospel musicians.

A studio set or concert stage is home to a group of several dozen singers, with the front row featuring artists with longstanding and legendary careers in Southern Gospel music.

They would be joined by younger artists, some of them up-and-coming acts in the Gaither Music Group publishing stable.

The videos and CDs regularly top sales charts, even many years after the series' inception and after the death of many favorite artists.