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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, […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Study different kinds of charts for any amount of time, and it becomes pretty clear pretty quickly that the form a chart takes and the methodology it uses is a product of its function (or should be), of what the chart is meant to accomplish. Charts spring up and take hold because there is a […]

Nah, but Anthony Burger is out with his new single (from a tribute project to Bill Gaither), “He Touched Me” - the same ubiquitous Gaither number that Dino covered on another […]

Now this is a fine idea. But even before trading music, I’d just be happy with a site that had a decent selection of used, rare, and out of print sg […]

“Stop barking up this tree,” a reader, whose opinion I respect immensely, wrote today. “All of the astute haranguing won’t change things. There are deeper problems endemic to […]

From Chuck Peters’ most recent post:
If I were one of the charting station programmers [to whom Rick Hendrix said “could it be a #1? […]

Ok, go take this poll … 50% ought to comprise more than 6 people (as it does at the time I write).

If you haven’t been following Jerry Kirksey’s photo posts lately, you really should. For once, it’s like the SN read my mind. Anyway, Danny Jones explains […]

While I regret to see a talented young musician leave the stage, I’ve got to say I’m delighted, on the face of it, to hear that DBQ’s Andrew Smith is leaving […]

As I threatened slash promised a few days ago that I would do, I want to elaborate fairly briefly (for me, at least, about this particular subject, anyway) on some of the alternatives […]

Alert reader CG noted that - miracle of miracles - Mercy’s Mark has been given the Wilburn’s spot on the Friday night lineup at NQC. Outstanding.