Tribute to Mack Evans: Beyond The Gates

mac evans entered professional gospel music at the age of 18. with his beautiful lead voice he sang with such groups as the weatherfords the rangers coy cook and the senators and the landmark quartet since 1975 mack had been featured soloists on the old time gospel hour with dr jerry falwell there was a man sent from god whose name was mike he was a man who whose priorities were in order faith and family a man who read the bible studied the bible memorized the bible taught and preached the bible and lived the bible dr john rollins of the landmark baptist temple in cincinnati where mac evans sang with a landmark quartet said this of mack evans it was said in the word of god there was a certain man that was a good man his name was barnabas and this bible is very thorough in its expressions about people it is a book about people [Music] there was a man that was called the friend of god another one was said he was a man after god's own heart and then to barnabas he was a good man i do not know a prefix that would be greater before any man's name than that a good man and i think beyond any doubt this descriptive term describes my kingdoms he was a good man only a few months before mack died he spent a few hours with his mentor jake hess he came to the motel hotel that afternoon brought his soundtracks and we sing together and discussed quartet days mack one time sent me a tape and you know he could just put a little effort there and sing like jake and the boys on the bus was playing this state and they said how you like that i said good he said who do you think it is i said well it sounds like me back in my younger days and mac had an entire track nothing was jk song and we laughed and talked about that disgusting music like death ain't no big deal that was his favorite song new song that come out he was a very dear friend i love him mac evans spoke of the grand old gospel reunion everywhere he went he was looking forward to being here with his many friends for all three days he always encouraged me in my promoting the grand old gospel reunion he said charlie he said don't ever let that thing stop he said that's one of the greatest things going and he had a love for his fellow gospel singers and he was just and he loved his family he he always couldn't wait to get back to his family we'd talk about that he missed him when he was on the road and i believe today without a doubt that mac evans is singing beyond the gates and my blessing jesus likeness forever we shall live on i know mac evans died may 28th after suffering a heart attack a few days earlier and just one hour after finding out his first grandchild was to be a boy mack evans was 52.

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Length: 4min 35sec (275 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 08 2021