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Healthily skeptical reader BS writes to challenge my e-optimism about sg downloadables:
Do you really think that sg fans are ready for downloadable music, much less […]

It’s only November 29 and I’m already sick to death of “Jingle Bell Rock” and Burle Ives and “White Christmas” and the Ray Conniff Singers (”let’s all sing in unison everybody!”). Hasn’t […]

The Nelons
The Light of Home
Seraphim 2004
posted: November 28, 2004 11:32 AM
Perhaps the most telling moment of the Light of Home comes not from the […]

A few months back I mused wistfully about the prospect of iTunes for sg - heavy on the wistful since I don’t really think that will ever happen […]

So if you’re looking for something to watch other than football, the dogshow, or whatever crap movie is showing on Lifetime this Thanksgiving weekend, check out TBN’s Exalting […]

To be on the NQC advisory board, you must commit to being at NQC all six days of the convention. In Ernie Haase’s case (which I mentioned in a post yesterday), having decided he wasn’t going to be at the convention the entire week, he had to resign his position on the advisory board, thus […]

So I’ve finally seen the new Daywind ad about Mercy’s Mark that’s running in the latest SN, thanks to Susan Puckett from Daywind, who sent me a pdf of the ad itself (since I’m still waiting on […]

The Issacs
Heroes
Gaither Music Group 2004
Posted November 15, 2004 10:25 PM
A few years back when the A&E channel’s “Live” musical performances were all the rage (MTV Unplugged for Boomers, really), I […]

Helpful readers like DL have filled in the blanks for me, and so for those equally blanks slates out there, a follow up to the earlier post about Wilds & Associates, the outfit organizing the new SGM Fanfair next summer. Wilds is owned, I gather, by Randall Wilds, who usually travels with John Lanier. A […]

So XM radio has finally come to sg. Good. I’m hoping Chuck Peters will jump in here and comment on this development, but […]

Since Devon McGlamery announced his move from the Dixie Melody Boys to Karen Peck and New River a few weeks back, there’s been plenty of discussion and consternation - of the latter, especially from old quartet types who assume any non-quartet gig is a step down. On one basic level, that sort of talk is […]

There’s a not-so-secret scandal in sg that everyone involved pretty much agrees not to talk about: unpaid royalties. Not exactly Whitewater or Watergate, but non-payment of royalties does affect real people (mostly songwriters, whose livelihood often depends on royalty payments) and puts an asterisk beside sg as a whole. It’s a complicated issue, so let’s […]

My post on the Eddie Crook Company gave me a chance to a talk to ECC’s executive vice president, Dave Wilcox, for a while this morning. And in the interest of fairness to ECC, it seems worthwhile to summarize some of Wilcox’s main points for the record.

Of the 50 or so artists ECC works with, […]

It seems like almost every day Eddie Crook Company signs another artist, and every time I see these announcements I’m reminded that perhaps no one in the music development business could possibly have a more unfortunate name than Eddie Crook. If fate were to look upon, say, a heart surgeon with the same displeasure shown […]