The Best of…Heirloom

This year for Christmas I got what I’ve been wanting for the last 2 years…a CD recorder, whereby I can transfer my many, many, many records and tapes onto CD. Having this contraption has been everything I dreamed it be; only problem being my wife now thinks I love it more than I love her…though I continue to assure her that I do, as I sprint my way to my music room. She just shakes her head. LOL!

Anyway, while I haven’t gotten a lot of records done, I’ve been thumbing through some tapes and ran across this little gem I’ve had for quite sometime called, “The Best of Heirloom.” Remember them? They were a short-lived female trio originally consisting of Tanya Goodman-Sykes, Sheri Easter and Candy Hemphill-Christmas. Eventually Sheri left because of the demanding road schedule of Jeff & Sheri Easter. Tanya and Candy brought on board Barbara Fairchild and they continued on. I remember I loved listening to this recording and it evokes some powerful moments of worship, praise and reflection with such songs as “Prayer Warrior”, “Crying in the Garden”, “Beside the Bedside of a Neighbor”, “There’s Still Power in the Blood”, “Suffer the Little Children”, “I Know Jesus”, “Mountain of Sorrow” and “Send Down Your Glory”. When these ladies were going strong back in the early 1990’s, I don’t think I fully appreciated their music. But as I’ve grown, so has their music to me. I find it quite relevant to my life today and have found these tunes coming back to minister and speak to me.

My one regret is I never got around to getting their last recording, a “Hymns” project, which included all 4 ladies. I only heard one song from it, “Crying Holy Unto the Lord”, as it was the single release. I’ve never found this recording since the days after it was released, and would have loved to hear these ladies tackle those great hymns. I know the harmonies would have been heavenly.

If there was a title aptly used, it is “The Best of Heirloom”, because these songs truly were the best of the best from their 3 recorded offerings prior to this release. It is my opinion that these ladies need to resurrect Heirloom and record just one more time.