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The Lexington Herald-Leader published a profile today of Kenny Bishop and his comeback in gospel music. It doesn’t plow any new ground for southern gospel fans and insiders, but what fascinates me about it is how presumptious and willingly obtuse the article is about Bishop’s downfall. According to Bishop and/but with more […]

Alert reader RPP writes in to note that as the credits rolled last night on Gaither Classics (episode 213) — a tribute to members of the Homecoming Friends who have died since the series was started — Bill Gaither in an overdub said something about (and this RPP’s recollection):
“…the people who sing here are stars […]

Dear reader, I confess. I am addicted to Grey’s Anatomy. The emotional pressure cooker of high-risk (and highly melodramatic) surgery, the vertiginous pitch of the surgical intern’s life, teetering dangerously between medical heroics and mortal cataclysms, the whiplashing between the highs of staunching multiple GSWs or saving abandoned newborns and the ordinary lows of trying […]

For those of you jonesin’ for some Crabb news, Daniel Mount (whose new blog I have failed to welcome to the wormhole until now … my apologies) has the round up here. Mount will also give you your “quibble with Avery” fix should that be one of your pasttimes (not that there’s anything wrong with […]

Chuck Peters of SGShowPrep fame and the roving reporter for the Southern Gospel Reporter caught up with me for a few minutes at NQC. We talk (briefly) about my blog philosophy, loving or hating avfl, and some of the names that the site didn’t get saddled with. Our conversation is streamable at Chuck’s website. Have […]

First, it’s worth noting that for all the expectation and big talk in the run up to NQC, I heard the American Gospel Music concept mentioned only twice: once from the stage between acts in a brief mention Friday night about the inaugural American Gospel Music festival in Dallas and once again from a reporter […]

The big stuff

The Booth Brothers: The group performed as if in and from another stratosphere than everyone else, save maybe the Crabbs. The set was perfectly paced and calibrated, pleasantly and originally funny in a way that appealed to more than the lowest common denominator fan (Michael Booth is a quickwitted and likeable showman with […]

The only afternoon showcase I managed to catch was an hour with several B-list artists who didn’t make the mainstage cut (though I did glimpse a very overtanned Dino and his very overtanned Wife with Anthony Burger’s widow and step-daughter playing the commemorative Steinway in the Exhibit Lobby and leading a singalong with about a […]

I’m reprinting a note from a friend at the Thursday awards show, which David Bruce Murray recaps nicely here (for my part, I really wish he’d do this for the whole week, but gosh that must be exhausting and demanding; perhaps he should find a partner and switch off next year … it’s really […]

[Note: Here is a roster of all the artists on the mainstage]
The big stuff

The Crabbs: The CF took the stage a little past midnight to a room approaching vacancy, which only added to the sense of sadness settling over them in […]