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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 […]