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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Shalom, and Bon Nuit. I’ll see you in the new year.

Over at sogospeluvers.com, they’re having an “Oh What a Savior” festival … pages and pages about who does or doesn’t sing the best OWAS. Ho hum. But this comment seems worth plucking out of the tedium:
I would agree that Ernie does a good job on OWAS. If you notice though, he really pulls the mike […]

Reader CVH provides the comment of the day (from a few days ago), responding to my post on Janet Paschal and hymn projects:
I agree with you. Janet’s voice has always possessed a unique character, well suited to the catalog of material she’s done, but particularly nice when she finds a tune that’s a bit more […]

Via Martin Roth (seriously, give this man an award for finding the most fascinating mainstream media coverage of Christian music, and then withhold it from him until he consistently puts permalinks on his posts), a brave Washington Blade story that dares to talk about something that anyone paying attention has known for years but no […]

It doesn’t matter if you like the song he’s writing about - “And I’m Telling you I’m not Going” from Dreamgirls - or not (though I for one do). The writing here is just distractingly wonderful.

David Bruce Murray links to some vintage JD and the Stamps from 1967. DBM points out Sumner’s predictable subterranean ending and if that’s your bag you’ll definitely want to see the clip through to the end. But more enjoyable, to my ear, are the early verses. Before all the belching and growling around starts, Sumner […]

Daniel Mount does some nice work reporting out a bit of gossip on the sogospelnews message boards about changes to the SN Fan Awards. He’s got Salem big-wig Jim Cumbee on the record explaining the major changes, including the elimination of gender segregated awards for mixed vs male quartet as well as awards for part […]

Over at Janet Paschal’s blog, I see she’s working on a hymns project (be careful with this list, though, as there are some non-hymns here like “God Walks the Dark Hills” and “He Touched Me”). Where can I sign up for one? Seriously, if the album is anything close to as good as the “Jesus, […]

Danny Jones wheels out the phony war-on-Christmas trap-set and gives it a few licks. Sigh. Obviously, I’m unmoved by this crusade, not least of all because it’s simply not true that Christmas has been suddenly secularized by newly aggressive anti-Christian forces. On this point, I recommend David Greenberg’s recent article in Slate. Money quote:
The Christmas […]

I’m trying to get a fairly comphrensive list compiled of current sg blogs in two categories: artists/industry and fan/non-industry. The latter first. Here’s the list I’ve got (which relies heavily on Martin Roth’s list; h/t Martin). Who should be added to it?

Adventures of a Starving Artist
Chris Unthank
Daniel Britt
Danny’s Diary
Fan of Gospel Music
Front Row Follies
Global Southern […]