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Countrified reader SJ noticed the full-color treatment Bishop receives in the February 12 issue. According to SJ the article “talks some about his work in politics, the disbanding of the Bishops, his return to SG music, and his Grammy nomination. It is a pretty generic article. The thing that is interesting to me is that […]

Hawkeyed reader Tom comes up with the catch of the day:
It took awhile, but the Hoppers finally made a lowkey but nonetheless public statement about the situation with Denice in their fairly recent biography. At the end of a fairly long chapter about Dean & Kim, the chapter ends with a brief passage under the […]

Um, this bio of Charlotte and Greg Ritchie should really be updated. Not only is it written as if Doug Riley is still alive, but in paragraph three beneath a big ole photo of Greg, Charlotte, and their child, the text reads “The [sic] don’t have any children yet but hopefully one day that will […]

In a day or two you’ll be seeing a press release about Janet Paschal signing with Vine Records, the new label created by Wayne Haun and Kevin Ward. I usually don’t post on this kind of everyday stuff, but I’ve made an exception in this case because 1)I heart Janet Paschal music and this signifies […]

Date: Thursday, January 25, 2007
Location: Fort Myers, FL
Setting: Germain Arena
Occasion: Gaither Homecoming Tour, part of a big swing through Florida to catch all the snowbirds
Average age guesstimate: 61
Opening act: The very funny Kevin Williams cracked not a single joke in the entire 10 minutes he stood on the stage playing a few hymns from […]

So am I just not getting some kind of pseudo-ironic way in which the name of the new country-gospel boy band Austins Bridge plays off the name of the retro-pop band Austin Bridges? Seriously. I don’t get it. Are they trying to get themselves confused with four rock heads from Indiana?
Bonus: Try making their name […]

Three sets of photos to help you kill time before work is done: Reader BC sends along this link to some wonderful Hoppers photos from all over time and space (don’t miss the Festival of Hair shots, one of Kim Hopper and one of Connie). NM recommends shots from the Crabbs/Ball Brothers/Bowlings/Bishop taping here and […]

Sogospelnews.com’s SGN Music Awards nominees were announced yesterday. Normally I would let this go unremarked upon, as these awards tend to function mostly as an index of the people with whom the Unthanks, SGN’s family of owners and staffers, are currently attempting to curry favor or do business. And I hate to break the cold […]

Well, this is certainly an easier way to bill your act than calling it Everyday Driven.

Courtesy of alert reader BH, a weird connection between sg and the Duke lacrosse case (read down about half-way).

Just so no one thinks I’m picking on Daniel (and in the spirit of “the state of …”), where’s Martin Roth? Has Austrailia been drowned by a melting ice cap while I wasn’t paying attention?

Daniel Mount on the unknown-til-they-disbanded George Amon Webster Trio: I never heard them and didn’t listen to any of their music but I’m sorry to see them go.

Too much A lot has been said about Gerald Crabb ebaying a Singing News #1 plaque for “Don’t You Wanna Go.” I was mostly content to let people talk themselves through this one — until I read a comment that suggested gospel songwriters who don’t hang on to every last piece of hardware their best […]

Here’s what Gerald Crabb has to say about the ebaying of Crabb memorabillia:
Why would Gerald put a # 1 plaque on Ebay ?
First, because I live in America and in America after you have reached the age of twenty one you have rights. One of those rights is putting items on Ebay if you are […]

David Bruce Murray has been cranking out some provocative and thoughtful stuff about the nuts and bolts of the industry lately. Much of it is first-rate and insightful. But his latest list of ideas about how sg could be a “leader” in exploiting the popular of listening devices like iPods is well-intentioned but unnecessarily […]

David Bruce Murray revisits the ongoing discussion about work load and labor trends in southern gospel and their relation to the success (or not) of sg. Most notably, he provides the kind of historical comparison I was pining away for the first time he wrote about this. You can see today’s Kingsmen’s schedule lined up […]

That’s what I’m hearing. Of course I’ve heard Inspirations rumors before that went absolutely no where. So this could be another one of those. Honestly, it wouldn’t matter to me one way or the other. I don’t listen to the Inspirations unless the Erhler’s ice-cream line is short at NQC and I get back […]

Since we’ve been all about fashion in a few posts lately, I thought I’d add this to the mix, from worldly reader DA, who noticed this headline on the latest cover of GQ, regarding the untucked shirt look:
Please, Go Tuck Yourself.
Is your shirt making you look fat?

Somebody (Gerald Crabb?*) is selling off a bit of the Crabb Family legacy before the farewell tour is even over (hat tip, JB). Ouch. Current bid: $2.25. Double ouch.
*The Ripley, MS, connection is the tip off that this is probably Crabb.

I hadn’t heard “I Bowed On My Knees” in a while, so this clip (via sgblognews) of English with the GVB back in the day was pretty amazing to revisit. The singing is simply in a class by itself, though perhaps at this point that goes without saying. In his prime (now long passed, alas), […]