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What he said. (Congrats, btw, to Martin Roth on what looks like a book (re)publication?)

Via Martin Roth, an “absorbing” (his apt word) look both at Mary-Tom Speer Reid’s life and career and at gender and the SGMA Hall of Fame inductees on the occasion of Speer Reid’s induction. This is a much tougher issue to plunge into than you might think at first (there’s the competing values systems of […]

Just a quick note to explain that I’m going to start trying more consciously to write less cleverish or quippy titles and be more topical, mostly as a way to try to boost the circulation of my ideas and your feedback around the rest of the world wide web via Google. This article in this […]

The Lesters are in Illinois this weekend and one of avfl’s roving interns sent me this text message earlier tonight:
I am listening to the Lesters sing right now in Paris, Ill. — they have NEVER sounded better!!! IMHO. Ginger’s daughter is pretty freaking awesome!!!!

David Bruce Murray pulls out all the stops and stars and gives Valor’s new cd FIVE stars. Wow. Even for a reviewer who tends, in my opinion, to be a bit starry eyed in his reviews, this makes me want to go out and get this cd. A year or so ago I caught a […]

This comment from the discussion thread is worth promoting to the main page as a balance to the diesel-sniffing angle from a few posts ago:
The flip side of what you’re saying, Avery, is that there are many artists who are paranoid. They make themselves unapproachable in many cases because of their perceived vulnerability to […]

Daniel Mount thinks the results of a Singing News poll about downloading sg — 15% say they have downloaded sg online; 85% say they haven’t — are skewed by faulty wording. “My instant reaction upon seeing the poll was that it was referring to illegal downloads.” But isn’t the simpler answer that the results refer […]

This is the group name I think I’ll use whenever me one or two other guys (or gals) in the group I just started get ticked off about something – the way the take at the table is divided or who controls the sliders on stage or how many monitors I carried and you didn’t, […]

It’s been a slow week or two at avfl hq (which means a really busy real world). You know what that means. Yup. Emails about diesel sniffers. Take it away, Thorn.

May I broach the subject of obsessive fans? Having been around the industry for many years, both as a vocalist and as a promoter, […]

This could really be something: From Chuck Peters’ ShowPrep:
Ginger Pitchers [Brian Lester’s sister] and her daughter Jenny Revelle are returning to the Lesters. They will be replacing Liz McMillan and Trecia Cisneros. Pitchers and Revelle will be joining Brian and Jonathan Lester in their family ministry, at least until the end […]