Jazz Articles about Isaiah Owens

Isaiah Owens: You Without Sin Cast The First Stone

by AAJ Staff
June 16, 2004

Honey-sweet contemporary gospel has saturated the market with a brand of testimony that's so smooth and over-produced that it loses track of its roots in the church. However, nobody will accuse Isaiah Owens of Montgomery, Alabama of sanding down the rough edges. Owens sang for four decades with Montgomery's Flying Clouds--but he only picked up the guitar around age fifty, and he now concentrates on solo performance. And between the singing and the picking, he's put together a sound that ...