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It's a time-honored formula in the Gospel Genre... The Quartet – four powerful vocalists with multiple rhythmic and harmonic elements going on at the same time. Today the group in question is Image, four brothers (Mark, David, Nathan and Tim Mathis) from Jonesboro, Arkansas who offer all those key elements coupled with a down-to-earth and youthful perspective of quartet music. The debut self-titled album, "Image," show both a timeless relevancy of the quartet sound and serves as an indication of the future of the modern gospel quartet group.

Image, obviously has been singing together their whole lives, but it was around 2000 when they decided to really take their music to the next level. The family quartet first took their show to various talent shows and competitions and eventually got the opportunity to work with Marcus Cole of Commissioned in the studio. This led to a meeting with Paul Wright, now President of NuSpring Records and the rest, as they say is history.

Initially called The Gospel Chimes after their late father's group, Image decided it was time for a name change. From a spiritual and natural standpoint the name image has meaning to them. "From a natural standpoint we wanted to present a different physical image than what has been released and from a spiritual perspective we want to reflect who Jesus is and represent Him," explained Mark Mathis.

Image is definitively gospel music infused with up-to-date production to stay current and on par with their mainstream contemporaries. Vocally and musically the album is a perfect blend of traditional, old-school soul and a little R&B.

Opening up the album in literal high-gear is "I Feel Good," the first radio single, is a quintessential church song. It is what all great Quartets should and do sound like. It is literally a 'feel-good' up-tempo track that just makes you happy.

"We wanted to write a great 'church' song as we like to call it and at the time we just didn't have the right one on the record," said Mark. "We needed one more song, it was getting late and we were all tired and it seemed like it wasn't going to happen. Then Tim started to hum this melody and right there I knew he had something. The words 'I feel good' came out ... it's a song that we've heard in melodies growing up. It is like the old days when you would drive onto the church parking lot and you already knew they were getting crunk."