{"artistName":"Swan Silvertones","artistId":10985,"artistDefaultImage":"https://artist.radioairplay.com/airplay_pictures/pictures/000/062/043/img_0020_1_2__300.png","srcset":"//artist.radioairplay.com/airplay_pictures/pictures/000/062/043/img_0020_1_2__sm.jpg 50w,//artist.radioairplay.com/airplay_pictures/pictures/000/062/043/img_0020_1_2__md.jpg 80w,//artist.radioairplay.com/airplay_pictures/pictures/000/062/043/img_0020_1_2__lg.jpg 200w,//artist.radioairplay.com/airplay_pictures/pictures/000/062/043/img_0020_1_2__300.png 340w","artistBio":"\u003cp\u003eP.O. Box 78036, Indianapolis, IN 46278 ~ 888.350.0400 (phone) ~ 888.350.0400 ( fax) \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Where Serious Musicians Surf” ~ \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eP.O. Box 78036, Indianapolis, IN 46278 ~ 888.350.0400 (phone) ~ 888.350.0400 ( fax) \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Where Serious Musicians Surf” ~ http://www.indie-music.com \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtist: The Swan Silvertones \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCD: Need More Love (Bles Sed Records) \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Dan MacIntosh, Indie-Music.com \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Swan Silvertones have been around, seemingly, forever. Claude Jeter originally \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eformed the group as the Four Harmony Kings, way back in 1938. Jeter died in 2009, but \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Swan Silvertones live on with Need More Love, a traditional and worshipful new \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealbum. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing sums up enjoyable black gospel better than the track, “Let’s Go to Church”. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen The Swan Silvertones sing, “When you get there, you can leave your troubles at \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe door,” the same can also be said of the experience in listening to these 12 enthusiastic \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etracks. Gospel music is all about focusing on God, and turning away from all the (mostly) \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebad reports on the TV news. The black church experience is as much physical as it is \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eemotional and spiritual. Therefore, The Swan Silvertones encourage listeners to clap their \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehands right along with this vocal quintet during “Let’s Go to Church”. That’s an offer \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimpossible to refuse. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis CD opens with “New Jerusalem”, a traditional gospel powerhouse. The track \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efeatures unobtrusive drums and guitar, yet upfront church-y piano. This ‘New Jerusalem’ \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethey speak of is heaven, by the way, a place where there will be no tears or pain. “What \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout You” also rolls with a traditional feel, with its foot-stomping beat and call-andresponse \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evocal arrangement. This is the sort of lyric one can easily imagine being sung in \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea child’s Sunday school class. But deeper than that, it’s a personal testimony. This man’s \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elife has been changed by God; what about you? \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title track, “Need More Love”, is a slow burner, an R\u0026amp;B ballad. It is, as the title \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estates, a cry for more charity among mankind. It’s the kind of song that would have also \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efit in well with old, ‘70s O’Jays recordings. But instead of blaming the problem merely \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eon the lack of brotherly love, this lyric holds out hope of a better world with the help of \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJesus’ power. You can’t love “without Jesus on the inside,” they remind us. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack gospel music is also about holding onto hope and two of these songs speak about \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehaving good reasons to believe in the future. “I Can Make It” takes the familiar hymn, \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Amazing Grace”, and turns it into a lyric about dedicated perseverance. The track’s \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003earrangement utilizes keyboards that mimic a backing horn section. On “I’ll Make It \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHome Someday”, the hope of a heavenly home is specifically spotlighted. This time, the \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evocal is falsetto, in the tradition of The Chi-Lites and The Stylistics. Sometimes the road \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof this life seems nearly impassible to traverse, and heaven appears almost out of reach. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut The Swan Silvertones are here to remind us, that if we keep on keeping on, we’ll get \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethere. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis release ends with “Message/Prayer”, which closes the recording the same way most \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echurch services conclude – with a prayer. It’s the sort of conclusion that clearly sets it \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eapart from ‘just another CD’. You get the feeling these men truly care for the folks that \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebuy and listen to their CDs. Need More Love does not just carry on the name, The Swan \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilivertones; it also carries on a musical tradition that is as powerful as a jubilant Sunday \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emorning in church. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwan Silvertones is a Gospel music group that ACHIEVED GREAT POPULARITY IN THE 1940S AND 1950S, LED BY Claude JETER, JETER FORMED THE GROUP IN 1938 AS THE \"Four Harmony Kings, while he was working as a coal miner in West Virginia.  \u003c/p\u003e","musicPath":"/music/Swan+Silvertones","playStationPath":"/stations/265296773/play","stationId":265296773,"bioPath":"/music/Swan+Silvertones/_full_bio","similars":[{"musicPath":"/music/Hezekiah+Walker","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/56b/56babd5781694431e2b6e9aa6aeb15c1_md.jpg","artistName":"Hezekiah Walker","artistId":11122,"station_id":113270278},{"musicPath":"/music/DC+Talk","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/487/4879d8801d736189ae73b08bd5108b46_md.jpg","artistName":"DC Talk","artistId":2716,"station_id":113275780},{"musicPath":"/music/Steven+Curtis+Chapman","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/f56/f5638c581a24ec8756444395ae725176_md.jpg","artistName":"Steven Curtis Chapman","artistId":10649,"station_id":113264334},{"musicPath":"/music/Cece+Winans","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/441/4415a309a16a40f151aa50e8ead32102_md.jpg","artistName":"Cece Winans","artistId":11007,"station_id":113297794},{"musicPath":"/music/Sounds+of+Blackness","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/b2d/b2d34685965a83da1e30943650ff5ccd_md.jpg","artistName":"Sounds of Blackness","artistId":4421,"station_id":113563875},{"musicPath":"/music/Phil+Keaggy","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/95e/95e4dd1373a5cf862e56eaeb63d3c588_md.jpg","artistName":"Phil Keaggy","artistId":12444,"station_id":113309890},{"musicPath":"/music/Shirley+Caesar","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/609/609ed2230db26d01c337346665a1e030_md.jpg","artistName":"Shirley Caesar","artistId":7919,"station_id":113273567},{"musicPath":"/music/Fred+Hammond","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/e22/e22ba2a6ebc4c63381d1366ff19dbfe0_md.jpg","artistName":"Fred Hammond","artistId":11105,"station_id":113263581},{"musicPath":"/music/Take+6","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/c3a/c3a600b4f148d8c84010c6db508b914b_md.jpg","artistName":"Take 6","artistId":7659,"station_id":113408259},{"musicPath":"/music/Rev+James+Cleveland","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/bcc/bccf1d0e75390424bdac576dc62b5f1b_md.jpg","artistName":"Rev. 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