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Someone who seemed to be speaking for the Stamps-Baxter School of Music wrote today to say that in fact the school doesn’t have the worst website in sg. Actually, they have no website at all, […]

I’m pleased to see that my thoughts on the internet and its shaping force on sg have started a meaningful (if limited) discussion about the issue. And I guess someone else […]

Anybody know if SSQ’s website actually hit the four million mark in hits this month as threatened? I assume not, since I can’t find any trace of the news on the website. But maybe […]

A few posts back I commented in passing that it would be interesting to know the breakdown of hit counts on sogospelnews.com, whose owners semi-regularly let drop that their site has several million hits a […]

Word on the cyberstreet is that Ernie Haase & Signature Sound are waiting anxiously to break the Four Million Mark in hits (that’s four million in one month alone) on their website sometime tomorrow (and […]

Now that there are three known independent blogs devoted to sg, and all coming into either existence or wide circulation […]

The thinking right now about blogs and their effects suggests that the real challenge for any blog and its success is not just establishing a base of loyal readers whose regular traffic patterns bring them […]

Back during the convention, I worked myself up into a bit of froth over EH&SSQ’s surreptitious use of a sound guy off stage to stack the group’s endings. After one […]

Some thoughts on sg advertising as represented in this month’s SN:

Daywind: A few people over at sogosplenews got pretty worked up over a Daywind ad for the Perry’s in the most […]

Add the much revered and keenly insightful David Bruce Murray to the list of sg bloggerheads. Of course this is wonderful news, as far as I’m concerned. My only fear is that David will outclass […]

I’ve already gotten some pretty strident and/or emphatic responses about my rediscovery on the Nelons last night. Upset reader TG called the whole piece “useless,” “unfair […]

The Nelons, Glad You’re Here. Like the Goodmans, the Nelons occupy a position in the history and development of sg that is difficult to understate. Reduced to it’s barest essentials, the case for the Nelon’s […]

Since it seems to be all political stuff all the time tonight, let me make it a triple header and say, for once, that it’s time for the sogospelnews administrators to shut a post down. […]

Regular readers know I’m a pretty vocal critic of Jerry Kirksey’s editorial judgment at the Singing News. Still, even I wasn’t prepared for something Kirksey wrote in his October […]

Listening to the radio recently, the Steeles’ “God’s Cemetery” came on, and I was put in mind of, as hard as it is to say, how thankful I am that the Steeles weren’t on the […]

All of Kirksey’s macho-manly-man swagger about banishing homosexuality comes, of course, in the waning days of Jimmy Swaggert’s blurt-and-backpedal routine about homosexuality last week. You may or may not recall that […]

Ever watchful AC told me about this site. I hadn’t seen it, of course. It’s sort of entertaining (and a bit flattering) that I generated enough response to warrant a push-back […]

Ever since the convention (and more specifically, ever since the Perrys made such an impression), I’ve been thinking about the shifting dynamics within the top-tier sg groups. Certainly, the first thing to say is that […]

Given that GC, once the most logical quartet to take over the Cathedrals’ dominance of the male-quartet category, finds itself essentially a new group with a storied past (rather than a group full of tenured […]

How’d they go from solid middle-tier group to breakout success? It’s a good question, one that MNP put to me on the ride back from Louisville. I didn’t like my answer then […]