With a name like his, John Boozer said he learned along the way to have fun with it, noting he’s heard all the jokes and has long embraced his nickname of “Booze.”
Serving as interim minister of music at North Shelby Baptist Church in the Birmingham metro area since 2018, Booze said his pastor even calls him that from the pulpit.
When he taught at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, from 2000 to 2017, his students also used the nickname. And now as the newly named director of Alabama Singing Men, he’ll see whether it sticks.
More than a music group
Booze joined ASM in 2025, but he participated in the group’s first-ever concert at a state convention annual meeting in 1973 while he was in college at Samford University.
“More than being a music group, it’s a group of guys who come together for fellowship,” he said, noting ASM has been featured at state convention annual meetings for 50 years running now.
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This article was originally published at TheAlabamaBaptist.org.