Chords for The Booth Brothers on Gospel Music Today

We [E] are at the National Quartet Convention [Gm] standing with me, the Booth brothers.
[D] Right next to me is Michael Booth and Michael, welcome to Gospel Music Today.
Great to be here and thank you for having us again.
[E] It's our honor.
Now, the other [G] guys probably don't need to be introduced, but I'll ask you to introduce
[F] I'll do it.
This is Jim Brady, [Bm] singer, songwriter [Em] extraordinaire, and my older brother, [D] Ronnie Booth.
I'm not going to tell you how old he is, but I'm 38 and he's six years older than I am.
Okay.
All right, we'll [Am]
try to figure that out later.
[G] _ Let me bring Ronnie over here.
I have a question for him [N] first.
_ _ Now, [G] of course, we know the Booth brothers came from a [D] gospel music family.
_ How [F] did you decide that this is what you wanted to do?
_ [G] When I give you an example, when I was two, three years old, my father sang with a gospel
group, the [N] Rebels Quartet, out of Tampa, Florida.
When she would take me to see Dad sing, she couldn't, she had to sit in the back of the
auditorium because I was constantly standing up in the chair singing to the top of my lungs.
That desire has been there all my life.
Through high school, that's all I ever dreamed about was to sing.
My dad was my hero.
_ That has never left me.
I never really believed I'd be able to do it, to be honest with you.
I remember graduating from high school and thinking, okay, what do I do now?
I just started singing anywhere and everywhere I could.
[G] _
[Gb] The Lord just opened the doors.
[B] To be able to make our living at it, singing [Fm] about our faith in Christ, [D] if this isn't a
big [Eb] time, I don't know what [Em] is.
You [G] guys have really been on the road that [N] long.
We actually, we sang our first time together, Michael and I, back in 1989 with our dad.
I was the music director of Brandon Fellowship Baptist Church in Brandon, Florida.
[B] _ _ The response [F] was really favorable and they encouraged us to do [C] more.
We did.
Charles Waller of the Grand Old Gospel Reunion saw us in 1993, invited us up there.
[Dm] That was really the door [Ab] that opened up for us to be able [N] to pursue a full-time ministry,
which happened in September of 1996.
_ _ That's excellent.
Let me get Jim over here.
How are you?
Very good.
Nice to see you again.
Now, you've been having, besides [Eb] your run with the Booth Brothers, some really great
success [D] with songwriting.
Absolutely.
In fact, you've got a [Eb] solo single on the singing news charts now. Sure. _ _
What's the newest Jim Brady project?
Well, I did that solo project a couple years ago.
[Ebm] We had a single go out from that that did really [Em] well.
That's been a couple [Eb] years.
The newest thing is a declaration project with the Booth Brothers.
We all were working with the wonderful producer, Larry Goss.
We're [B] excited about that project because growing up, I used to listen to the cathedrals and
Larry would produce for them.
What an honor to [Eb] be able to work with Larry Goss now.
That's [Gm] the newest thing that we have [B] out.
That and then a Jubilee 2 project that we did with [Eb] Legacy 5 and Greater Vision.
[B]
Those are the newest things that we've been working on lately and we're excited to have
those with us this week.
It's a lot of [Fm] fun to get to go into the studio, create the [D] music, and then bring it out here
and sing it for all the [F] folks.
It's a real honor.
We love it.
_ [D] The Booth Brothers too.
[Ab] Let me get Michael in here a little [Eb] _ bit. Yes, sir.
[E] _ [Ab] We know that there's been an added [G] dimension to Booth Brothers concerts in the last year or so.
[Eb] Long story short, I had a dear friend by [C] the name of Darryl Tony [Db] ride our bus for a couple
weekends and in a very [Eb] loving, kind way, I received a godly rebuke. _
[B] Bottom line, cut to the chase, too much ignorance [Eb] of the scripture.
When you're ignorant of the scripture, it doesn't come out.
Therefore, the things you say don't have the power they could have if you were speaking the word.
I was running off a raw talent.
Long story short, I start digging in the word to have something to say [Db] and I started digging
into [G] the fundamentals of salvation.
Well, [Db] when you do that, it [F] comes out.
The word just doesn't stay in you.
And [F] so presenting a clear, precise, concise [Em] message of the gospel has become a very large
part of what we do.
And [D] _ [F] we don't get into numbers, even hands held up and things like that.
[Fm] All we know is that when the truth [Fm] goes out, it doesn't return void.
[F] And the gospel presentation is [C] God's chosen method between that and the [F] word of how people
[Fm] are to be led to Christ.
Gospel music is great, but [B] it doesn't replace the word.
[F] Augmented.
Exactly.
[C] Now, what do the Booth brothers do when you get back to [Ab] Tennessee and get off [D] that bus? Divide. _
Spread out.
We spread out.
We do.
Everybody's kind of, you know, I pretty much camp out at home [Db] with my family.
All the business stuff I do, I [F] intermingle with the phone and [D] email and what have you.
[F] Ronnie and Kim run the office [F] and the finances of the organization, so their plate is full.
Jim is slammed with [C] writing and co-writing and running his [Eb] publishing company.
And his [F] wife has a solo career, as we were saying.
So everybody has a lot [Eb] to do.
And somewhere in there, we try to be husbands and daddies, too.
[Fm] You know, actually, [B] we try to do the business stuff while we're being husbands and [F] daddies.
Right.
That's right.
To keep the priorities.
[Fm] It's fun, but it certainly is a challenge.
Now, tell me quickly about those new projects again.
[F] Yeah, we've got Declaration [D] is our newest album.
And I didn't hear what else you guys, newest projects.
Jubilee 2.
Oh, the Jubilee, I [F] forgot.
You have those other guys we work with.
[Fm] Legacy 5 and Greater Vision, [D] we did Jubilee 2.
[F] And if you love the first one, I think [D] you're really going to love the second one.
It's my favorite.
[F] And Booth Brothers website.
Boothbrothers.com.
Okay, pretty easy.
Yeah, they had to make it so I can remember.
Well, we love the Booth Brothers and we're very happy to have you here on Gossip.
[Gb] Great to see you again.
Thank you.
Thanks,