Welcome to the official website of Archie Watkins, founding member of The Inspirations Quartet.
Another Single has been Released...
While the first single, 'He Will Remember Me', continues to climb the charts, the second single from Archie's debut album 'Pouring Out Blessings' has recently been released. Be sure to listen for 'The Gospel According to John' on traditional and satellite radio! To hear a sample of this newly released single, after the background music finishes on this page, click play below:
What a Wonderful Time... 2009 Year in Review
What a year it has been!!! This year has been full of blessings, transitions, and a few challenges, too. After struggling for many years with the direction God had planned for me at this point in my life, I left a ministry that I had worked my entire professional life to help create, followed His will and embarked on a new and wonderful journey. As a result, I was able to spend the last 10 months traveling to many states, seeing many old friends, and performing solo on stage for the first time in my career. And, I got to do it all with my wife and best friend, Cindy, at my side.
It was such a blessing to fulfill my calling while getting to travel and spend time together on the road for the first time in our married lives. It was wonderful to go to concerts, revivals, and perform services at so many churches along the way. We got to reconnect with a lot of old friends, and make many new ones, too. We had quite a scare in September, when Cindy had a heart attack while we were at the National Quartet Convention in Louisville, KY, but thankfully we were back on the road in just a few short weeks. Cindy is doing wonderfully well, and we are all so incredibly grateful for those particular answered prayers.
My first recording as a solo artist, 'Pouring Out Blessings', has been an amazing success, and there are still a couple of singles from that Album that will be released in the New Year. And I have been using this time off over the December holiday to get back into the studio. I am very excited about my new project, 'One Day', which will be released in early spring of 2010. I continue to be blessed to work with wonderfully talented song writers, performers and recording professionals along the way.
I'm also very excited to announce that I will be having around 12 reunion concerts in 2010. 'Archie Watkins and Smoky Mountain Reunion' will be performing a limited number of engagements together in the New Year. It will be great to be back on stage with some old friends who also shared the stage with me at some point through the years while I was a member of The Inspirations. Please visit Archie's Reunion page on this site for information about these special reunion concerts!
I want to end this letter by saying a sincere 'Thank You' to all of you who have supported my career over the years, and to those who continue to support my ministry going forward. It has truly been an honor to perform for you, and I look forward to continuing to travel and sing as long as people want to hear me, as long as my health will allow, and, most importantly, as long as it is God's will. Cindy and I look forward to seeing all of you in 2010, and wish our very best for you and yours in the New Year. We love you all!
Thank you Fans, DJs, and Promoters for making
'Pouring Out Blessings' such a wonderful success!!
Archie's first CD as a solo artist was released in June of this year, and has been received with such demand that a soundtrack of the new Album was released by Crossroads Music in early September! To date, the only single that has been released from his new album is 'He Will Remember Me'. It debuted at number 55 on The Southern Gospel Music Charts Top 80 of the Singing News in August of this year, by the following month it had risen to number 38 and as of October, it had reached number 27. There will also be other singles from this Album released in the near future, including 'He's Pouring Out Blessings' and 'The Gospel According to John', which Archie says are both also being very well received in concert and generating lots of excitement. Special thanks also goes to all the people at Crossroads Music and also to Charles Bennett for going above and beyond to make this first solo production such a success and amazing experience!
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*** Archie's first single as a solo artist continues to
climb the charts!! 'He Will Remember Me' is at
number 12 for January!!! ***
The KY concerts for the weekend of Jan 9 were cancelled due to bad weather & will be rescheduled...details coming soon.
