Jim Rice
Founding Member
Mike Wilson
Gordon Jenewein
Mark Craig
Larry Myers
Dan Patterson
Kevin Watkins
Kevin Watkins, our long-time drummer and singer, is back in the band! After being our drummer for decades, he took some time off to start a drum company called K-WAT Drum Co. He has always had the best sounding snare ever. And that’s what he is manufacturing. Check it out on k-watdrumco.com. I’m truly grateful that he is back.
Who would have thought back in the early 70’s that this band, Brush Arbor, would go on to compose and record music and be doing concerts, encouraging the saints, for more than fifty years?!
I certainly wasn’t thinking about this in my future back then. Actually, I don’t even remember what I was thinking back then. What I do know with certainty though is that God is in complete control. We were on Capitol Records back then, and recorded songs that charted on the billboard country charts. We didn’t realize that God had plans to use us not so much in the country music business, but in Kingdom business and Gospel music. After the Academy of country music awarded us vocal group of the year and touring band of the year, God engineered our circumstances and our hearts so that almost every song that I wrote, and we recorded was about Him. We had some top chart songs in the contemporary Christian market and some number ones on the positive country billboard charts, after our country, music chart songs.
Capitol Records, then to Monument Records, Benson Records, Word Records, R&L Records; a journey of recording mostly original songs.
I continue looking forward to seeing what God does with us each year. Coming up soon we are performing at Hume Lake Christian Camp for their 80th anniversary, then at a Sonrise Church in Clovis, California, and then in Ventura at the Rubicon Theatre. Hope to see you at one of these places or beyond.
Jim Rice
Founding Member
