But I'll say this: I've never been more honored to sing about Jesus and for Jesus. David Kessler's top 4 tips for dealing with holiday grief. Within southern gospel, perhaps the most polarizing figure thought to embody this accommodationist dynamic is Amy Grant, who began as a CCM ingnue ("Father's Eyes," "El Shaddai" and "Angels") and subsequently landed crossover hits in American pop during the 1980s (her debut outside of CCM came in a duet with Peter Cetera, "The Next Time I Fall In Love"). I was able to meet him at the NQC that year and have a picture made. My deepest sympathy to the Hess family. You have inspired us to do the same. November 13, 2001, accessed September 23, 2013, http://www.crosswalk.com/1108828/. My focus on professional southern gospel music is distinct from the avocational or amateur tradition, known as convention singing. Goff, Close Harmony, 264282, traces these and other important bluegrass groups in southern history. There will never be another voice like Jake's. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. Thank you for fulfilling this photo request. My heartfelt sympathy to all. as elvis said, he was the best. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Southern gospel's negotiation of them has often manifested in overt racism or a way of thinking, talking, and singing that renders whiteness falsely normative. Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 7, at Morningside Baptist Church in Columbus, according to McMullen Funeral Home. Jake recorded a song I wrote called "I Just Love Old People" on his ALL OF ME project. James and Claudia Stewart and The Seeker's Quartet. I grew up listening to him and hearing my parents speak of him and watching him on T.V. At first, this meant reclaiming (or sonically imitating) mainly rock 'n' roll, but ultimately it came to encompass almost any kind of popular mainstream American music heard on commercial radio, especially among teen and youth audiences. The cultural difference between the Ozark/Ouachita and Mississippi Delta regions of Arkansas is aptly captured by/in two recent films. Between 2003 and 2010, they were somewhat inactive as a group in order to spend more time with their own families, although they did reunite for concerts periodically. Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_7', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_7').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); "southern gospel" brings with it additional layers of interpretive complication regarding race, class, and geography. One of the best added to God's Chorus! Pisgah, Ala., the youngest of 12 children born to the late Stovall and Lydia Hess of Haleyville, Ala. Search above to list available cemeteries. Jennifer Lena has exhorted scholars of music culture to deemphasize sounds and instead examine "social structures and collective actions. I will always remember the way I felt when Mr. Hess would sing a song. The grandson of a four-time Grammy Award winning singer is following his musical dream. Between highlights, Bill Gaither interviews Joyce, Judy, and Jonathan,54The interviews are actually excerpts taken from long conversations filmed in a homey setting in which The Martins sit side-by-side on a large couch facing the camera and Bill Gaither sits in an overstuffed armchair to the right of the frame. You are my friend. [5], Jonathan Martin (b. Only eternity will reveal the lives Jake Hess has touched. We will miss Jake's beautiful music and humble, sweet spirit. These congregations structured worship, congregational culture, and church outreach to target "those who had never established a relationship with Christ and the Church, and those trying to reconnect" (Lester Ruth, "Lex Agendi, Lex Orandi: Toward an Understanding of Seeker Services as a New Kind of Liturgy," Worship 70, no. . In 1989 Jake's nephew Steve Hess & Eugene Baker (Hess & Baker, Skylite/Sing) were in Nashville to record several segments on Bobby Jones Gospel (BET Network). tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_26', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_26').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); From this traditionalist perspective, CCM's project of reclaiming the devil's music for the Lord amounts to little more than evangelical apologia set to music in "Jesus is my boyfriend" songs: notionally Christian tunes that overlay the stylistic trends and tastes of secular music with lyrics about a love beyond all measure, directed toward a pronominally vague beloved who could be divine, or more sublunary. The Gospel Music World has lost another great singer. Sorry! Hess' career started at the age of 16, when he joined the popular John Daniel Quartet in 1943,[5] making his recorded debut on "Just a Prayer Away". Tom and Fran Stewart. "2Ibid., 2. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_2', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_2').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); This tradition is distinctive for its cultivation of close harmony sung in ensemblestraditionally male quartets, a formation that dominated the commercial sector of southern gospel through roughly the first half of the twentieth century, and more recently, mixed-gender foursomes and trios, often comprising family members.3Today's professional southern gospel includes many family and mixed gender foursomes and trios, configurations that were and are common in the singing convention world that dominated southern gospel in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. When she came out, Mark grabbed her arm and said, "You have to hear these kids sing!" Hess sang backup on several albums recorded by Elvis, and also sang at Presley's funeral in 1977. To the Hess Family I want to extend my deepest sympathy in the loss of Mr. Jake. The reunited Statesmen sung at Elvis's funeral. They live in Nashville and have two children (Martin Sanders was married previously to Harrie McCullough, with whom he had a child). See Shearon et al., "Gospel Music." The siblings all lived most of their formative years in Arkansas, where they learned to sing and with which their comments in public indicate a strong identification. ", References to Bennett's birthplace in Strawberry, Arkansas, were staples of Cathedrals concerts, several of which I attended, in the 1980s and 1990s. Joyce: So we went into the bathroom. Joyce Martin Sanders lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband Paul, and she has two children. What kind of arrangement is appropriate, where should you send it, and when should you send an alternative? My deepest condolences to the Hess family on your loss. See you one day in Heaven. Researched in the 1990s and published in 2002, Close Harmony traces the music's development from the nineteenth century. The camera cuts back and forth between The Martins and Gaither, occasionally taking in the four of them in a wide shot. Photos larger than 8Mb will be reduced. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. Jake's daughter remembers the occasion where the piano was moved to the center of the auditorium and all four of the Statemen were singing on top of the piano. Jake Hess December 24, 1927 - January 4, 2004 OPELIKA, AL - Beloved gospel singer Jake Hess died early Sunday at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika. From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism. My prayers go out to the family,he will be missed. Gospel Music has lost many great singers lately, Jake was one of the best. In its resurgence, one hears from the gospel stage and in other acts of self-representation an intensification of emphasis on social resentment and cultural grievance. In commercial Christian music, this transformation foregrounded oft-blurred distinctions between "evangelicals" and "fundamentalists." Absence of biographical detail about The Martins clears space for the Arkansas imaginary to operate. Photos. Published by Columbus Ledger-Enquirer from Jan. 5 to Jan. 6, 2004. Judy Martin Hess is one-third of the Southern Gospel trio The Martins. In the latter part of his life, Hess sang with The Old Friends Quartet which was featured on the Bill Gaither Homecoming videos. The camera cuts back and forth between The Martins and Gaither, occasionally taking in the four of them in a wide shot. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. Dayton offers an alternative account of "evangelicalism," emphasizing the rise of Pentecostalism and holiness traditions, which, as Jonathan Dodrill notes, "do not seem so bent to ward off liberalism." Jake Jr. was born on June 25, 1960. Slanted Records and The Martins. 2014.grammys.criticized.as.political.stunt.to.push.gay.marriage.agenda.natalie.grant.responds.after.early.exit/35586.htm). "8Stephen Shearon, Harry Eskew, James C. Downey, and Robert Darden, "Gospel Music," Grove Music Online, July 10, 2012, accessed October 15, 2013,http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/A2224388. The Martins. But, Jake Hess is the real deal. Son Chris was born on December 17, 1955, and was named after one of Jake's brothers. Unlike "northern urban" gospel (a phrase with no currency outside academe), it is the preferred way to self-identify within the culture and the most widely recognized way to describe the music to outsiders. (Jennifer Jones, "Natalie Grant Responds after Leaving Grammys Early," Christianitytoday.com, January 29, 2014, accessed January 31, 2014, http://www.christiantoday.com/article/mass.wedding.at. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_24', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_24').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); If much of CCM musically enciphers the aspirations of evangelicalism's dominant demographicsuburban, white, seeker-centered25"Seeker" sensitive models of congregational development and worship emerged in the 1970s and 1980s as part of the so-called church-growth movement, an organized effort to expand church membership and participation beyond traditional populations. Gaither's questions establish Jonathan's lifelong love of "huntin'" as linked to his Arkansas adolescence. Arkansas has long been defined by poverty and isolation born of the cashless frontier societies of the state's uplands and the agrarian barter economies that prevailed in the lowlands.55Morris Arnold, "The Significance of the Arkansas Colonial Experience," Arkansas Historical Quarterly 51 (Spring 1992): 7880. Jake married Joyce McWaters, the . Jake, you have run a good race, you have fought a good fight. His book Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2012. Similarly, Gerald Wolfe, also originally a pianist for the Cathedral Quartet and subsequently the owner and emcee of his own professional trio, Greater Vision, was famously plucked from obscurity (or so the story went onstage in his early years as a performer) while singing with the Dumplin' Valley Boys.49References to Bennett's birthplace in Strawberry, Arkansas, were staples of Cathedrals concerts, several of which I attended, in the 1980s and 1990s. He was 76. These were his family by blood, but Jake also leaves behind Bill and Gloria Gaither and all of his "Homecoming" friends. My heart is breaking-Jake was my friend for 55 years. SUE. Beyond the style it captures, this clip points to the structures of thought and feeling that underlie The Martins's appeal and southern gospel music more generally. More deeply, the decline in market share and cultural capital has eroded southern gospel's self-concept and induced a crisis of authenticity. It is difficult to lend much credence to this account unless Gloria Gaither's opinion and judgment plays a much more determinative role in the Gaither image and Homecoming productions than is generally allowed or assumed. LOW HIGH. To plant trees in memory, please visit the. For an extended discussion of the psychodynamics of southern gospel, see ibid., 149. They call themselves the Martins. Elvis has been quoted as noting Hess as his favorite singer. Jake Hess III Judy Nelon August 1, 2017 Jake Hess III, not only gets his family musical talent but more than that he has the families humble personality. Instead, CCM performers and fans came together around a common commitment to reclaim the devil's music for God. Bill Gaither sighs contentedly, then adopts an avuncular, lightheartedly admonishing tone, commenting that The Martins had only sung the first verse and indicating, as if unplanned, that the trio should "finish it" on the couch at that moment. See David Fillingim, "A Flight From Liminality: 'Home' in Country and Gospel Music,". "I am becoming more and more comfortable with myself and who God wants to be in me." Judy lives in Columbus, GA, with her husband, Jake Hess Jr. Through thick and thin . Color me, color me. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_38', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_38').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); Certainly this is true of southern gospel. It keeps me reminded of what God has brought me through and what He was done for me and the people I love," says Judy. Mini Bio (1) Judy Martin-Hess is an actress, known for Gaither's Pond (1997). Again: Continuing the Debate between Donald Dayton and George Marsden," in The Continued Relevance of Wesleyan Theology: Essays in Honor of Laurence Wood, ed. My mother passed earlier this year, and Jake Hess was her favorite singer of all time. Consequently, much of conservative Christian culture challenged secular narratives and norms. Recent Episodes The Martins's singing by the sea resonates with the disjunction of three "kids" from a cold-water backwoods shack harmonizing in an exotic locale with an international gospel touring company. Examining the rise of the gospel singing trio The Martins and the deployment of their rural Arkansas roots to shape their popularity in Christian music entertainment, this essay reveals how an evocation of place functions in the practice of religious life within commercial southern (white) gospel music and fundamentalist Protestantism. A great friend, a godly Christian, and wonderful person--Jake. Lower compositional sophistication, more uneven production quality, and rougher cuts by commercial standardsall defining features of the southern gospel sound of the past twenty yearscan function for many evangelicals and fundamentalists as indices of a more real music and catalysts for a more authentic experience of the religious self. In its current, commercial form, this tradition "is most powerfully defined by common historical, economic, social, and cultural connections among professionals and fans to a constellation of corporate and professional organizations that anchor the creation, consumption, and commemoration of the music," Gaither Homecoming among them. This thrilled her to meet him and she never forgot it. Judy Martin is married to Jake Hess, Jr., the son of the legendary southern gospel lead singer Jake Hess. The interviews are actually excerpts taken from long conversations filmed in a homey setting in which The Martins sit side-by-side on a large couch facing the camera and Bill Gaither sits in an overstuffed armchair to the right of the frame. See Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism (New York: Oxford, 2013). "38Pamela Fox, Natural Acts: Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009), 7. David D., Arkansas. The warmest thoughts of sympathy go out to you today. DVD. I have been a fan all my life. We send our love and sympathy to the family of Jake Hess. We love you, Jake. A fan's review of The Best of The Martins video on Amazon.com captures this dynamic succinctly: "I wouldn't consider the Martins southern gospel," the reviewer writes, "as their sound is more contemporary but they have a love of the Lord and that comes across strong in their work and their lives. The trio performed an a capella arrangement of the 1862 gospel hymn, "He Leadeth Me," a standby in the culture of Homecoming's fan base.44"Gospel hymns" refer to a repertoire of American sacred songs that "first appeared in religious revivals during the 1850s, but which flourished with the urban revivalism that arose in the English-speaking world in the last third of the nineteenth century and continued into the twentieth century." Moreton, Bethany. The sponsor of a memorial may add an additional. The group has also recorded over a dozen albums. Anthony Heilbut, "Black Urban Hymnody," on, Stephen Shearon, Harry Eskew, James C. Downey, and Robert Darden, "Gospel Music,". Judy Martin Hess (b. I have followed Jake for the last 40 yrs. More conventional black gospel singers (such as Angie Primm and the late Jessy Dixon, both of whom have appeared on Gaither Homecoming videos) and black gospel choirs are generally held in high regard in southern gospel. View More. Kevin Kehrberg generously included me on a panel he organized on shape-note gospel and its half lives in Arkansas and beyond, and Meredith Doster encouraged me to expand the paper into a submission for Southern Spaces. For them, Gaither's interview effectively constructs and encourages audiences to see in The Martins representative, unifying figures of white, evangelical populism whose home is, as Bethany Moreton has shown in her study of Wal-Mart and evangelicalism, the Ozarks of northern Arkansas and south-central Missourithe literal geographic location in which Gaither's colloquy imaginatively relocates The Martins. Our prayers and thoughts go to all the members of their family. It keeps me reminded of what God has brought me through and what He was done for me and the people I love, says Judy. Jake W Hess, W Jake Hess, W Jake Hess, W Jake Hess, Jack Hess, W Jake Hess, W J Hess, Jake J Hess, Jake J Hess, Jake Jr Hess. I learned a lot about part singing with the group that I sang with, Jake says. As Stephen Shearon has noted, both white and black gospel have "liked aspects of what the other was doing" ever since blacks and whites began singing sacred music near one another in North America. Except [we didn't] know where to go, all the rooms were locked, too much going on in the auditorium, so Mark suggests we go into the bathroom. For a recording of the set piece associated with Gerald Wolfe's time with the Dumplin' Valley Boys, see. I am so glad we got to meet. Jake was born Dec. 24, 1927, in Mt. [7], Hess and Joyce McWaters were married on October 5, 1952. The Arkansas imaginary has explanatory power for The Martins inasmuch as southern gospel music revoices and revalues the distortions and elisions of religious identity and cultural history central to the self-concept of many white fundamentalists and evangelicals. We loved to hear Jake sing. Heilbut notes that this vibrancy is driven by the rise of name-it-and-claim-it prosperity gospel in the black church, which is intensely homophobic and discourages its members from thinking in "broad sociological" categories in favor of a self-aggrandizing theology that links spiritual well-being with personal wealth (See "The Gospel Church and the Ruining of Gay Lives: An Interview with Anthony Heilbut," interview by Douglas Harrison, ReligionDispatches.com, July 30, 2013, accessed January 28, 2014, http://www.religiondispatches.org/books/culture/6221/the_gospel_church_and_the_ruining_of_gay_lives%3 A_an_interview_with_anthony_heilbut/; and Heilbut, The Fan Who Knew Too Much: Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations [New York: Knopf, 2012]). Group that I sang with, Jake was born Dec. 24, 1927, in Mt jake hess jr and judy martin today... Thoughts of sympathy go out to you today over a dozen albums, the son of the best,! 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