Gospel singer Michele Thacker of Mathews fulfilled a lifelong dream this past summer when she went to Nashville and made a professional CD of some of her favorite gospel songs.
Titled “In His Time,” the CD contains covers of such modern favorites as “Jerusalem” by The Hoppers and “The Goodness of God” by Cece Winans, along with old standards such as “How Great Thou Art,” “Because He Lives” and “Softly and Tenderly.”
Thacker said people who have heard her sing at the numerous churches and other places she’s performed over the years have frequently asked for a CD, and she always wanted to make one but never had the money. This year she decided that the time had come.
An annual attendee of the Charles Novell School of Music, a two-week intensive training for gospel singers held this year at Bethel University in McKenzie, Tennessee, Thacker decided to tack on three extra days to her trip so she could stop off at Nashville’s Daywind Studios and finally cut her CD. The studio has access to a...