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What he said.

Chuck Peters picks up where I left off a few days ago and confirms that indeed Ishee is leaving PSQ and, as far as we can tell right now, gospel music altogether (Ishee has said nothing himself so far):

BRYAN ELLIOTT HEADED FOR PSQ
Anchormen keyboard player Bryan Elliott will join Palmetto State Quartet on […]

1. Why doesn’t someone start a blog/website devoted SOLELY to rounding up non-sg press and media coverage of sg and then blast that roundup in to a daily feed that people (like me) could subscribe to? Yes, if you know what you’re doing Google and other search tools will do this for you, but I […]

Last night I saw 9/10s of the Gospel Songs of Elvis Presley or some such titled documentary that ran on PBS. I’m sure I’m mangling the title, but it’s on older piece (by the looks of it from the early 90s). Whenever PBS needs to drum up money, it pulls out old faithfuls like Elvis […]

While we’re on the subject of personnel changes, the last week or so has brought with it some muted but slowly building talk that Rodney Griffin is laying the groundwork to leave Greater Vision. Not so, says Gerald Wolfe, in a reply to an email I sent asking him about the situation. Griffin’s house is […]

I’m working with my back to the television and I hear this singer’s voice on the Macy’s Day parade and think “Wow that woman sounds a lot like Sandi Patty … singing a really schlocky song about Oklahoma rising.” I turn around and lo … SANDI PATTY herself … headlining the float from her home […]

That certainly seems to be the consensus (and I’m not just referring to this commenter, who I don’t know as far as I know, or this one, who we all know). One story has Ishee leaving PSQ to be replaced by the Anchormen’s Brian Elliot while Ishee goes home and into bidness with his brother. […]

KB makes some asute observations about Give it Away and living (and listening) in the age of stracks:
My only beef is with the tracks. Gaither’s got a full band that appears to be playing everything the track is doing, why not just LET THE BAND PLAY?! The real reason is because the Vocal Band (at […]

Reader TK breaks a long silence and writes with the email of the day:
Jason Crabb either created or revived a vocal move of sliding a note up during the last chorus of “I’m Amazed” with the Brooklyn Tab that Danny Riley is using in “Truth Is Marching On” and Kim Hopper is using in “He […]

So a little more on the Homeland resurrection: From what I can gather, Bill Traylor is partnering with the owner of a piano company that Traylor has an association with. The piano company appears to be moving operations to Nashville and the two of them are diving into the record bidness.

Speaking of pianos, be watching […]

I had a chance to see the full DVD of Give it Away this past weekend, and though I’m going to complain a bit about for a while (not least of all to retain my curmudgeonly bonafides and keep the interns from thinking I’m a softie), it’s pretty much engrossingly captivatingly good. Before I rhapsodize, […]

The Homeland label looks to be coming back (David Bruce Murray floats a “magic three” thesis about the need for a third established record company here). My first question about the Homeland resurrection is, yeah but will the new Homeland be any better at paying its bills and royalties than the old one? I […]

From one of our farflung correspondents:
Total meltdown at Gaither.com over the cancellation of Jubil…whatever in Memphis. Just a total meltdown. The issue is that no one from Gaither announced this and folks red it on The Singing News website and not on Gaither’s official site. The kids running the site apparently feel like those folks […]

Corresponding with a friend this afternoon, I talked myself into a more constructively concrete way of expressing what I’ve been trying (and, I think/fear, failing) to say about the Hall of Fame and the place of women in gospel’s music golden generation. My suggestion: create a Hall of Fame installation that reflects on and grapples […]

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I don’t think I’ve ever done so little to start so much of a conversation, and I’ve a good mind to just stay out of it, but of course I won’t. And before going in any further, I want to say (again) how delightful it’s been to be the host of such […]

There’ve been some excellent comments to my gender and sg history post about the hall of fame and women. A few people understandably wanted to know how I’d do things differently if I ran the world, but having thought about it I’ve decided 1) I’m not nearly ambitious enough to run the world (opinions don’t […]

Via Chuck Peters ShowPrep:

According to a press release from Goodman Family Ministries, the organization is offering, through an authorized seller, furniture items once owned by Howard and Vestal Goodman. The media info says that Southern Gospel Music fans and Music Memorabilia collectors may visit eBay to bid on.. “a beautiful leather sofa with two matching […]

As you may have seen from a comment in the Second Mile thread, it looks like Buddy Mullins and his wife, Channing Eleton and Paul Lancaster have formed a new group. See here. I kind of like the name, about as much as I did Second Mile, for what that’s worth. I had heard that […]

Update: Several commenters have asked about where Buddy Mullins’ wife, Kerri, is in all this since she was the third member of the trio. I only know what I read, but I assume that whatever transpired amongst Mullins, Henderson, and Eleton, Kerri Mullins went the way of her husband. And just for grins and giggles, […]

By now you may have seen the clever “news” bit about the Dove Brothers on Letterman. Here’s Chuck Peters:
They didn’t actually make an appearance, but the Dove Brothers were mentioned on CBS Television’s The Late Show with David Letterman. During one of the segments on last night’s program,.. Letterman pointed out humorus […]