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The Rev. Jimmie Bratcher To Perform at Popular Texas Blues Concert Series on August 15

Harlingen, TX – Gifted bluesman, the Rev. Jimmie Bratcher will be the headline performer at the Blues on the Hill concert series in Harlingen, Tex. on August 15, 2009. Sponsored by KMBH Radio, Blues on the Hill plays host to fans from all over the Rio Grande Valley who gather to hear top national and international blues performers. Bratcher will perform songs from his upcoming CD, The Electric Rev, which will release on August 11, 2009 on Ain’t Skeert Tunes.

"I've been spinning the Rev. Jimmie Bratcher on the radio for the about a year now...what hooked me was the stingin' full-bodied guitar  riffs, his very souful voice and the songwriting elements that give a positive message about life in general,” comments Chris Maley, Program Manager at KMBH Radio and Entertainment Coordinator of the Blues on the Hill concert series.

Pastor, evangelist, author, singer, songwriter and guitarist, "The Rev" preaches in churches every Sunday, but on Saturday nights you'll find him sharing his amazing testimony and blistering guitar licks onstage in blues clubs and at music festivals, prisons and biker rallies.

Bratcher's brand of the blues has been embraced by the Christian market and the mainstream blues industry alike, allowing him to play at both Christian music festivals such as Creation East, Creation West Coast and Rock the Light, and at blues festivals such as Simply the Blues Festival and Boxcar Full of Blues. He has appeared at venues along with Christian artists including Mercy Me, Newsboys and Third Day, and with blues greats including Grammy winner and NARAS Lifetime Achievement Award winner David “Honeyboy” Edwards, Blues Music Award winners Zac Harmon and Otis Taylor, and Livin’ Blues Gold Award winner Hubert Sumlin, one of Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”

According to Blues Revue Magazine, Bratcher's upcoming release, The Electric Rev, "...erupts with a blast of righteously down-home funk. It's as if Ray Charles has been reincarnated in the body of a character from a Woody Allen movie."

Produced by legendary Grammy Award-winning producer Jim Gaines (Carlos Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Journey) and Nashville’s Mike O’Neil, The Electric Rev showcases performances that are both intimate and raw. From the New Orleans street march of “Green Bananas” to the Sunday morning sound of “Pray for Me,” The Electric Rev speaks the language of the blues with a spirit that touches the heart and soul. The CD's opening cut, "Call On Me," urges those struggling in their lives and marriages to call on Jesus, letting them know that He is there with them through their darkest hour, all over a sweet gospel groove. “When the Blues Come” and “One Rock” express Bratcher’s love and respect for the blues, while the dobro-driven songs “Elijah’s Road” and “How Far Down” come straight from the soul of a man who knows just how far down the bottom is.

Bratcher, who serves as the bandleader and frequent commentator for the new Sky Angel/TBN TV show "Love, Marriage and Stinking Thinking," is driven by the desire to point as many people as possible to the reality of the love that God has for them. “The blues is my most effective way to communicate,” says Bratcher.

The Rev. Jimmie Bratcher’s The Electric Rev will be available on Ain’t Skeert Tunes on August 11, 2009. For more information on Jimmie Bratcher and his new album, The Electric Rev, visit www.jimmiebratcher.com.

The Blues on the Hill concert series will be held in McKelvey Park, 1325 South 77 Sunshine Strip in Harlingen, Tex. From 6:00 – 10:00 p.m.

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For more information or to schedule an interview, contact:

McCain & Co. Public Relations
PH: 615- 262-1727
Email: mccainprnews@mccainpr.com

December 15, 2008

We just got word that the Man! It's Christmas video is airing on "Gospel Music Channel", "JCTV" & "TCT" Network. We are thankful for everyone who helped us, be watching for the video.

Jimmie Bratcher – Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Cleaning my office listening to Kelly Joe Phelps sing Cyprus Grove

Found my Bible again today, covered in dust there it lay
Maybe I should wipe it off open it and read?

Leather cover, paper page, and life's living inside
Think I'll dust it off open it and read?

If I read then I can change to the image Jesus gave
I believe I will pick it up open it and read.

Worked hard today it's time to sleep another day I didn't read
Tomorrow I will take the time open it and read.

Found my Bible a month away, covered in dust there I lay
When will I pick it up open it and read?

Jesus forgive, what can I say, covered in dust years away
Wish I'd dusted it, open it and read.


© 2008 Ain't Skeert Tunes

The Electric Rev on the Radio!
We just started a national blues radio campaign to let everyone hear The Electric Rev. The first station to report to us is WUCF, 89.9 FM Orlando, FL - Smokestack Lighting on 10/25/08 DJ Marvin Rooks played "Cadillac". Thanks to Marvin and all on the show. Listen for The Electric Rev on your favorite radio station.

Peace,
Jimmie

Finally it is done. Today we begin shipping CD.....

Peace,
Jimmie

A friend of mine wrote this. It spoke to me...

LEAP!

And shall I go on being casual and numb?
Pretending
Pretending that I know something about this being I so glibly call God
Or shall I dare to encounter Him?
Him
The One with whom I have to do
The One who can never be an object
Forever and always the eternal subject
Is it grammar or a much deeper truth?
The object is acted upon but the subject acts
God is not in my story—I am in His
How is it I can be unaware of this?
Did I think I invented this story called being?
Surely I'm not that crazy
I belong to His story
History
But there is my story
Mystery
God is no object—only and ever a subject
The Subject
You cannot trivialize The Subject to ology or ism
You can only be aware or oblivious
Of the One who alone possesses innate beingness
The most obvious of all truth
But all truth inheres in subjectivity
Oh!
Subjectivity
Where passion is permitted
Where we are in the story
Where we care
Instead of aloof and comfortably numb
Subjectivity is passion
Faith is passion
Life is passion
Sanity is passion
Objectivity is numb
Empiricism is numb
Death is numb
Madness is numb
Passion saves
My soul
From numbness
Prose
Prozac
Prosaic
Ordinary
Medicated
Unimaginative
Passionless being
Passion saves
Poetic prophetic extraordinary imaginative
Passionate being
Passion saves
To believe is to be passionate
Passion is found in the instant of the leap
When you leap beyond the fence
(Objectivity)
Into the Lion's pretense
(Subjectivity)
Will He kill you or let you live?
Either way you are alive in that moment
You are not cool or "cool"
One is dispassionate the other is self-conscious
In that moment you are neither
You are passionate and engaged
LEAP!
Leap the security barrier of objectivity
Into the presence of the Being Himself
It's the only hope you have of saving your life
Leprosy is not what you think it is
It doesn't eat you
It's only numbness
But numbness will destroy you
LEAP!
Before it's too late
Before the leprosy takes your legs away
Before the creeping numbness takes your soul away
LEAP!
The Leap of faith
That jumps the objective
To encounter the Subject
Where passion lives
Because now there is nothing between you and the Lion
And you know you live because you feel your heart beat
And you know you live because He lets you live
No more numbness
Passion saves
LEAP!

Blind Man at the Gate

It is at the duplicators and hopefully will be back in about two weeks. For those of you who have pre ordered thanks for your patience. I hope you love the CD.

Jimmie

We are in Nashville shooting 13 episodes of a pilot TV show with Mark Gungor. The show deals with the myths and bad thinking surrounding marriage we are the house band. Hopefully the show will be picked up by a nationally there are several networks are coming in this week to look.

The show opening is from The Electric Rev. the song "Lord Make Us Funky" and the close is "I Love My Baby from Red. We are also doing some tunes during the show as well.

Peace,
Jimmie

Well given a few tweaks The Electric Rev is through mastering!!! It sounds great to me I will post a couple of tunes as soon as I can to give you a listen..... Now it's off to duplication....

Peace,
The Rev.