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Via Daniel Mount, the neverending soap operalet of the Anchormen’s personnel woes continues. All the current members have walked out to start their own group. Longtime readers of this site won’t find any of this all that surprising. Way back in the early days of avfl, there was this post in praise of Tony Rush […]

No one will believe me when I say this, but it has been genuinely nice to see Ernie Haase learning the lessons of Bill Gaither’s strategic benefaction toward EHSSQ and paying it forward by playing Bill to the Ball Brothers’ Ernie (if this website is accurate, they’re still opening for EHSSQ these days). And obviously, […]

Comment of the day:
I began reading Singing News in 1972 and remember seeing ads and “news articles” (read: rehashed press releases from the group or label) like this. Nothing new, nothing surprising. I can see where someone involved in the project may really believe there’s something special about the record but how it’s […]

Please. Is there an award for the most shameless PR overreach in an music industry full of shameless PR overreaches? Yes, this is gospel music, and yes, many artists and industry people believe their work is not just or even primarily bidness but rather a ministry. But honestly, “producer says KP&NR album anointed?” As […]

Patty Paige just followed the Four Aces on some Nostalgia-Fest PBS fund-drive this evening. I would be remiss not to report that the Four Aces took everybody else’s geritol money and stood as many of the people in the crowd who could stand on their feet no less than three times in a two-song set. […]

I’m surprised that there are not more southern gospel wikipdians out there sloughing off work, using up their employers’ bandwidth and generally obsessing over sg content on wikipedia. I seem to recall David Bruce Murray mentioning in passing somewhere that he’s contributed a bit to wikipedia (though I could be wrong), and you’ll see a […]

A while back I got this email from a reader:

Noticed today that Salem unlocked the Singing News website temporarily. To quoth the homepage: “For a limited time, we’ve opened all areas of SingingNews.com to everyone–FREE! Be sure to check out the Links, Personal Appearances, News, and Charts during this limited preview.”

After perusing […]

The American Gospel Music rebranding of southern gospel seems to be going …. very quietly. The big news about AGM seems to be the lack of news, big or small. According to Clarke Beasley, whom I asked to give me an update on AGM, “all our efforts right now are focused on the AGM Festival […]

The man of the hour himself, Kenny Bishop, took a few minutes out of the limelight today to exchange a few messages with me. Bishop had this to say, among other things:

When I received the call yesterday from Ed Leonard, letting me know that I had actually received the Grammy nomination, it was quite evident […]

I guess I should have listened more carefully to Kenny Bishop’s project when I got it back in the summer. What are we to make of the nomination and this album? Having just finished listening to it tonight, not too much, I hope. Not because the album isn’t good (it ranges from serviceable to enjoyable, […]