Rediscovered: I Rest My Case at the Cross

The Perrys. “I Rest My Case At the Cross” (Changed Forever, Daywind, 2002).
Songs become lodged our lives and memories often because of serendipity. Sometimes by fortuitous happenstance, […]

Searchlight

It was bound to happen. US Gospel News and Lamon Records are hosting a Gospel Talent Search during NQC week this year. Chuck Peters (whose SG ShowPrep is […]

In Memoriam, George Younce

By way of homage to Younce, I’m going to avoid well-intentioned but essentially insubstantial eulogizing. Though my devotion to gospel music was (like many others’) significantly shaped by Younce’s influence and example, […]

George Younce, 1930-2005

George Younce died early this morning. There will be much said and much to say in the coming days and weeks about the remarkable legacy of this […]

Bejeweler

Chuck Peters’ SG ShowPrep for djs recently reported that the Perrys bus was robbed: “Be on the lookout for a missing guitar. THE PERRYS say thieves broke into their bus and made off with several items,.. including […]

Get a good seat

Oddly enough, I was just watching a CSPAN thing earlier today about blogs and journalism and the misfit quality to blogging, bloggers, and their precise role (to say nothing of effect) on the world of institutional […]

Help

A reader would like to know the following. Can anyone help out?
I’m looking for a song that was sung years ago for our youth gathering in Arizona by Robie Hiner. The main line […]

Quartet DNA

Some folks can go from quartet work to solo career pretty naturally: Janet Paschal, Ivan Parker, and Kirk Talley, for instance. Others, not so much. Case in point: Tony […]

Promoticus Outlandicus, subspecies pastoralis

Here at averyfineline, we’ve made something of an avocation out of tracking the wiles and ways of a popular breed of radio promoter in southern gospel (there is, in fact, an entire wing of avfl interns devoted […]

I couldn’t have said it better

The latest bunch of your letters is up. At this hour, you speak much better than I ever could.On Larry Petree and his message board
I just spent two […]