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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 […]

In this latest post, Danny Jones writes:
With Southern Gospel music going through a mild case of changes right now (Gold City, Palmetto State Quartet), […]

Looks like the happy little diddy “Roll Away” from L5’s Monuments album will be the group’s next single. I still think it should have been singled earlier instead of “Out of My Darkness,” but nevermind […]

Reader DB alerts me to this bit on Brian Speer’s blog (which I don’t have a URL for):
“I spoke to [Anthony Burger’s] wife Sunday and she said he would be so […]

Reader HP writes about the GC/McCune deal:
I think some people are missing the bigger picture here. The choice for McCune is not for his ability to sing the “hits of old.” But for […]

A long overdue revisitation I promised a while back. (Why) Aren’t there more one-hit wonders in sg? And the survey says …

Reader BS and her dear, […]

Ok, I know we’re all getting a little weary of the Gayther hoopla lately, but in my exhaustion I’ve been wondering why exactly this old shoe got picked up and dropped again after four years. I chalked […]

So after Martin Roth turned me on to Google searches, I found Google Trends, a tool within Google that maps search trends for terms - that is, how frequently has a term been Googled over time. You […]

I’ve gotten a lot of email about this, so I guess I’ll comment, but only to say, This is just dumb. Honestly.

That Ernie Fletcher, he’s a sparky little fella. Despite a multi-count indictment against him, the governor of Kentucky (for whom Kenny Bishop works, but in a capacity that hasn’t been implicated […]

So I leave the volume on my computer muted most of the time … too many stupid sound files lashed to too many homepages and other websites. Anyway, this being the case, I missed hearing the song […]