The recording career of this band from North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, smack up against the Blue Ridge Mountains was, like their name, brief, not to mention exceedingly modest when it came to commercial success. Originally calling themselves The Sounds Of Soul, they switched to Brief Encounter when it became apparent there were other groups using that original name. And they were a large group, which mitigated against a lot of public appearances to promote their music, with lead vocalist Maurice Whittington, vocalist/bassist/guitarist and keyboardist Gary Bernard Bailey, vocalist/keyboardist Montie Bailey, saxophonist Larry “Tony” Bailey, keyboardists Velmar “Spelly” Bailey and Barth Strempek, drummer/flutist Rufus Wilborn, drummer/percussionist Fredrick Alexander, trumpeter Charles Graham, and guitarist Michael Carter.