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1. From Googler and avfl reader KD:
Have you tried [Googling] the trend for Singing News? Very sharp spike right about the time they announced their new logo. Then, a sharp decline […]

There a lot of first-rate players in gospel music, many of whom make fine soloists and performers in their own right (Anthony Burger, of course, is Exhibit A here). And/but it’s a curious fact of southern gospel […]

Anybody know anything more about this outfit than what their website says?

From the “hyperbole in Christian marketing” department: Pat Robertson drinks a shake that helps him leg press Benny Hinn’s bus full of healed people. Take that Vitamins 4 […]

Here’s the link to Brian Speer’s website that I referred to a bit ago in re Anthony Burger and CNN.

Several of you have written in to say that the recording of “Man of Sorrows” playing on Anthony Facello’s myspace page is Mercy’s Mark. It’s Chris West and Facello, yes. MM, it is not. Whatever “fooling […]

Reader BN wonders if the decline in the quality of sg music in the last decade shouldn’t be attributed to the demise in good songwriting.
Our SG songwriters need to learn from Toby Keith…..yeah, I know, […]

Readers SK and TM sent (independently, as far as I know) two different MySpace links for former L5 tenor Josh Cobb (here and here; turn up the volume […]

ZE writes to suggest the a new sub-category of one-hit wonders: The recitation song, of which TE nominates “John 3:16″ as the “ultimate” recitation one-hit wonder, by the Gospel Messengers. TE notes that “It […]

This whole Burman Porter/PSQ/Blackwoods things is just bizarre. On Tuesday, Chuck Peters reported that “Brad Smith will be traveling with the Blackwood Gospel Quartet this weekend as the new bass singer.” After […]