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Regular reader Montana Man brings up a good point about personnel changes that is worth bearing down a little harder on:

Speaking of money … How much are we speaking about? $400 a week is $20,800 a year … $500 a week is $26,000 annually, $600 a week is $31,200. And how many groups are […]

Seriously. You can’t make this stuff up:
Nashville, TN-Rumors created by on-air DJs, message boards and a misinformed concert promoter spread that legendary Gospel Music singer/songwriter Dottie Rambo had passed away last night (Thursday, February 15). These rumors are absolutely false, Dottie is alive and well and will be in the recording studio on Monday recording […]

The name Lane Rainwater has popped up as the replacement for Gene McDonald for the boys from Pensacola. A quick Google search turns up a guy by that name currently singing with a group from Georgia called Calvary’s Way (hat tip, avg). You can hear a sound clip of Lane on the song “In One […]

Jeremy Lile’s move from Crystal River to BFA, coupled with the recent loss of the CR’s former baritone, Jeff Snyder, reminds me of an email I got months ago from a friend, who wrote: “I find it troubling how easy it is for some people to leave one group for another. There seems to […]

David Bruce Murray makes the case for a Bob Carlisle tune as the highwater mark in P&W.

So I hear anyway. In case you haven’t heard of him or don’t recognize the name, Lile is the bass for Crystal River, a somewhat exciting quartet of up-and-comers whose musical skills haven’t quite caught up with their vision for themselves but who, to their credit, seem determined to stick it out and close the […]

From suggestive reader ST:
Why not have a Singing News Fan Award for Favorite Emcee (meaning the emcee for the group). This position is one of the hardest on stage and can make or break a group. I have heard a lot groups I liked on tape but did not like live because the emcee could […]

From songwriter Diane Wilkinson. Chances are you know (and probably like) one of her many songs (among them, “We Shall See Jesus,” “Boundless Love,” “High and Lifted Up”). Here she is responding to my thoughts on songwriters and big royalties.  
I’m always pleased to see that you are empathetic to songwriters. You were even observant enough […]

An interesting rhetorical history could be written about the spoken-word introductions to live recordings in southern gospel. This first occurred to me listening to the introduction of Legacy 5 on their latest live project, Live in Music City. I don’t know who’s doing the introducing but it’s not very good – lacks gravitas and polish, […]

The sales success that Signature Sound’s latest project is already enjoying has me wondering if there might be longer-term ramifications on the quality of top-shelf songwriting now that a group without a singer-songwriter on the payroll can pretty much name that tune when it comes to what they choose to record.

Here’s what I […]