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Pallbearers carry the casket of Major Douglas A. Zembiec, USMC (1973-2007).

A pall-bearer is one of several funeral participants who helps carry the casket of a deceased person from a religious or memorial service or viewing either directly to a cemetery or mausoleum, or to and from the hearse which carries the coffin.

A pall is the heavy cloth that is draped over a coffin. The term "pall-bearer" is used to signify someone who bears the coffin which the pall covers.

Some traditions^{[citation needed]} distinguish between these two roles, with pallbearer being a ceremonial position, just carrying a tip of the pall or a cord attached to it, while casket bearers do the actual heavy lifting and carrying. There may otherwise be only pallbearers in the literal sense while the casket is on an animal, or on an animal-drawn or motorized vehicle.

In western cultures, the pallbearers are usually family members, close friends, or colleagues of the deceased. In some Asian cultures, pallbearers are not to be members of the family but are outsiders, given a tip to perform the services of pall-bearer^{[citation needed]}.

A pall-bearer in the USA will carry a casket by the handles, and at around waist height. In the United Kingdom, the casket is carried on the shoulders, and the handles are for the most part decorative. All lifting should be done from underneath the casket.

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Josh Turner
Background information
Birth name	Joshua Otis Turner
Born	(1977-11-20) November 20, 1977 (age 34)
Origin	Hannah, South Carolina
Genres	Country
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	2001–present
Labels	MCA Nashville
Associated acts	John Anderson Ralph Stanley Randy Travis Trisha Yearwood
Website	JoshTurner.com

Joshua Otis "Josh" Turner (born November 20, 1977) is a country music singer and actor signed to MCA Nashville Records in 2003, Turner has released four studio albums for the label. The first of these was 2003's Long Black Train, whose title track was his breakthrough single release. 2005's Your Man accounted for his first two Number One hits: "Your Man" and "Would You Go with Me," while 2007's Everything Is Fine included a #2 in "Firecracker." Haywire, released in 2010, produced his biggest hit, the #1 "Why Don't We Just Dance." Josh also released a Cracker Barrel album called "Live at the Ryman" in 2007. Overall, Turner has charted ten times on the Billboard country singles charts, with all but one of his singles reaching Top 40 or higher.

Biography[link]

Josh Turner was raised in Hannah, South Carolina. Growing up in the church, he found himself singing the bass and baritone parts in numerous choirs. His parents are both of English ancestry. After high school, he moved to Nashville to pursue a career in music and enrolled in Belmont University. After college, his fledgling career got a boost on Dec. 21, 2001, during his debut on the Grand Ole Opry, when he debuted a song he wrote titled "Long Black Train." He received a standing ovation in the middle of the song, then sang it again for an encore.

In 1996, Turner developed a lesion on his right vocal cord. Surgery was not needed, but he did have to rest his voice for a year. Turner states that he "learned how to whistle really well during that year."^[1] Turner was examined by the Vanderbilt voice clinic, where doctors advised him to let it heal on its own. While Turner rested his voice back at home, he learned classical vocal techniques and how to take care of his voice and avoid developing further problems.

Personal life[link]

Josh has one brother, Matt, and one sister, Carrie.

Josh Turner met his wife Jennifer Ford in 2003 at a classical training vocal program. His wife travels with Josh when he's on tour, playing keyboards and singing background vocals.

They have three children: Hampton Otis Turner, born October 6, 2006,^[2] and Colby Lynch Turner, born June 26, 2009.^[3] On August 27, 2010 the couple announced on NBC's Today Show^[4] that they were expecting their third son. On December 13, 2010, son Crawford Marion Turner arrived.^[5]

Music career[link]

[edit] 2001–2004: Long Black Train

On December 21, 2001, Turner debuted on the Grand Ole Opry with the song "Long Black Train".

In 2003, Turner released his debut album, also entitled Long Black Train. Prior to its release, Turner had released 7" vinyl singles of "She'll Go on You" and "Long Black Train." Both singles featured Long Black Train album track "Backwoods Boy" as a B-side. While neither "Backwoods Boy" nor "She'll Go on You" were successful (the latter peaking at #46 on the country charts), "Long Black Train" spent more than forty weeks on the Billboard country charts, reaching a peak of #13 and receiving a gold certification. The third single, "What It Ain't", was less successful, reaching #31.

[edit] 2005–2006: Your Man

In early 2006, Turner released his second album, Your Man. The album's first single and title track, "Your Man", was co-written by Jace Everett and released in late 2005. "Your Man" also climbed the charts slowly, eventually reaching #1 in early 2006. Your Man was certified Gold by the RIAA four weeks after its release, and went Platinum six months later.^[6]

"Would You Go with Me" was the second single released from Your Man. Like the album's title track, "Would You Go with Me" also reached the top of the country singles charts, holding that position for two weeks; it also reached #48 on the Billboard Hot 100. Turner also performed it on the CMA Awards in November 2006.

Shortly after the album's release, a song called "Me and God" was released as a single to Christian radio. A duet with bluegrass musician Ralph Stanley, the song also featured members of the band Diamond Rio on background vocals. "Me and God" reached a peak of #16 on the country charts.

In December 2006, the 49th Annual Grammy Award nominations were announced. Turner received nods for Best Male Country Vocal Performance and for Best Country Album. That same month, featurette on CMT Insider showed Turner in the studio working on the album. He mentioned that he wanted it to sound like music in the 18th and 19th centuries. Turner performed at the Ryman Auditorium where a live album was recorded, singing a song called, "Church in the Holler." Turner's album Josh Turner: Live At The Ryman was recorded in April and is available exclusively through Cracker Barrel restaurants.

Turner, along with veteran songwriters Brett James and Don Schlitz, wrote a song entitled "Say Yes"; recorded and released by singer Dusty Drake in 2007, the song was a minor Top 40 country hit for Drake, peaking at #36.^[7]

Grand Ole Opry induction[link]

On September 29, 2007, while giving an award to Roy Clark on Clark's 20th anniversary on the Grand Ole Opry, Josh was invited to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry. He was inducted by Vince Gill on October 27, 2007.^[8] He is the second youngest member, after Carrie Underwood.

[edit] 2007–2008: Everything Is Fine

Turner's third studio album for MCA Nashville, titled Everything Is Fine, was released on October 30, 2007. Its lead-off single, "Firecracker", became Turner's third Top Ten hit on the country music charts, peaking at #2. The second single from Everything Is Fine, a duet with Trisha Yearwood entitled "Another Try", was released in late January 2008, peaking at #15. The title track was released as the third single and peaked at #20. Everything Is Fine has been certified gold.

[edit] 2009–2010: Haywire

At the end of June, Turner wrapped up recording his fourth album, Haywire. The lead-off single, "Why Don't We Just Dance", which was released on August 12, 2009, debuted at #57 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of September 5, 2009. The song went on to become Turner's third Number One hit, spending four consecutive weeks at the top in February 2010. The album was released on February 9, 2010, along with a deluxe version. "All Over Me" was released in April 2010 as the album's second single; it became Turner's fourth Number One. On September 27, 2010, Turner shot the video for "I Wouldn't Be a Man" in Nashville, which was the third single from Haywire.

[edit] 2012–present: Punching Bag

Turner's fifth studio album, Punching Bag, is expected for release via MCA Nashville in June 16, 2012 and is preceded by the single "Time Is Love". The song, written by Tom Shapiro, Tony Martin and Mark Nesler, was released digitally on December 20, 2011 and went for radio adds on January 9.^[9]

Billy Graham Biopic[link]

Turner plays George Beverly Shea in the film titled Billy: The Early Years, about the evangelist Billy Graham. George Beverly Shea was a featured soloist with Graham's crusades.^[10]

Discography[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Official Josh Turner page at Universal Music Group Nashville
• Josh Turner Interview at CountryMusicPride.com
• Josh Turner at the Internet Movie Database

Bong-Ra is the performing name of Dutch breakcore musician Jason Kohnen from Utrecht. Formed in 1996, initially producing and DJing jungle music. Previous to Bong-Ra Jason Kohnen performed as bassist and drummer for stoner/doom metal band Celestial Season amongst others.

Kohnen's style contains a variety of crossovers and fusions of different genres, including metal, gabba, jazz, rave, and jungle, becoming one of the front runners of the breakcore genre, sometimes credited as "yardcore" or "raggacore", blending reggae and ragga with breakcore.

Biography[link]

Bong-Ra's 1998 debut album New Millennium Dreadz was released on Djax Records; it was the first Dutch full length drum and bass album ever released.

In 2001, Kohnen set up the Clash Records label releasing a mix of hardcore, ragga, and jungle on 7" vinyl, releasing artists like Parasite, FFF, Soundmurderer, I:gor and Murderbot. In 2004, the sublabel Kriss Records was set up, oriented more towards metal/breakcore, releasing material from Jahba, Drumcorps, DJ Scotch Egg, Maruosa, and Snares Man.

The "Breakcore a Go-Go!" breakcore/jungle parties in Utrecht and Rotterdam, together with FFF, where the first recurring breakcore parties in Holland, running from 2003 to 2005.

On 21 February 2002, a Peel session by Bong-Ra was aired on BBC Radio 1, which was later released on vinyl. John Peel regularly played Bong-Ra tracks after he had been sent a 4-track demo in 2000. Kohnen also got to meet John Peel in person and he considers the Peel session as one of the highlights of his career.^[1]

His second full length album Bikini Bandits, Kill! Kill! Kill!, released on Supertracks Records in 2003, saw a cooperation with US Gyromart, creators of the Bikini Bandits. The videoclip to the track "666 MPH" aired on nightly rotation on Dutch MTV, and the album became part of a multimedia exhibition in the Museum of Modern Arts in Arnhem.

Discography[link]

• New Millennium Dreadz (1998, Djax Records)
• Darkbreaks Volume 1 (1998, Djax Records)
• Darkbreaks Volume 2 (1998, Djax Records)
• Riddim Wars (2001, Death$ucker Records)
• Peel Session (2002, Death$ucker Records)
• Darkbreaks EP (2002, Russian Roulette Recordings)
• Clash001: Jungle Talk / Killah One (2002, Clash Records)
• Breakcore a Go-Go! (2003, Supertracks)
• Bikini Bandits, Kill! Kill! Kill! (2003, Supertracks Records)
• Clash002: as Killahman Machine (2003, Clash Records)
• Old-Skool Armageddon (2004, Death$ucker Records)
• Renegade Bubblin' (2004, Supertracks Records)
• Praying Mantis E.P. (2004, Russian Roulette Recordings)
• Conquering Lion (2004, Hydrophonic Records)
• Blood & Fire (2004, Soothsayer Recordings)
• Clash006: Soundwave / Warhead (2004, Clash Records)
• Warrior Sound (2005, Supertracks Records)
• Grindkrusher (2005, Ad Noiseam)
• Monsters of Mashup (w/ Enduser & Shitmat) (2005, Ad Noiseam)
• Colony of Electric Machines (2005, Vynalogica)
• I Am the God of Hellfire! (2005, Ad Noiseam, Very Friendly / Supertracks Records)
• Servants of the Apocalyptic Goat Rave (w/ Sickboy) (2005, Suburban Trash)
• 4 Adaptations of Rossz Csillag Alatt Született (w/ Venetian Snares) (2006, Planet Mu)
• Soldaat van Oranje (2006, Sublight Records)
• Stereohype Heroin Hooker (2006, Ad Noiseam)
• The Kill (w/ Enduser) (2006, Ad Noiseam)
• Sick Sick Sick (2007, Ad Noiseam)
• Full Metal Racket (2007, Ad Noiseam)
• Panther Fight (2008, Mashit)
• Vitus Blister EP (2008, Zhark)
• Megasaurus / Gargantuan (2010, RUFF Records)
• Monster EP (2010, Ad Noiseam)
• Monolith LP (April 2012, PRSPCT Recordings)

References[link]

1. ^ VPRO 3VOOR12 Utrecht JOURNALISM: Bong-Ra stoft Peel-sessie af als eerbetoon

External links[link]

• Official website
• Peel Sessions: Bong Ra – info on Bong-Ra’s Peel Session
• Bong-Ra discography at Discogs
• Bong-Ra at rolldabeats