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Daniel Mount argues that the Inspirations are so popular because their songs are so good. There is a bit of question-begging going on here. Mount seems to assume the songs are good to begin with and then uses that predetermined conclusion to answer his own question, which could have more accurately been phrased something like […]

Even though the blogger “debate” was over before it ever started, that doesn’t mean there isn’t a contingent in southern gospel – led, most vocally these days, by the Unthanks of sogospelnews.com — who won’t try to make the question of the media’s role in gospel music about how much more Christianly they are than […]

Via sgblognews, I see that John Scheideman has a (for the most part) thoroughly reasonable post about the bloggers summit. He wasn’t invited and doesn’t really care – admirable honesty. His post brings up an interesting point that Scheideman doesn’t really pursue but which is imbedded in his argument: what is the role of bloggers […]

I have, as reader DD puts it, evidently created a monster: see for yourself.

Prologue: I brought back some kind of North Carolina head cold from the bloggers conference that has funkified me the last few days. Thus the lag in putting together some reflections on the meeting.
By now you’ve may had a chance to read other summaries of what went on at the Crossroads headquarters in Arden, […]

David Bruce Murray pops the cork on a little get together of sg bloggers this weekend. I really don’t know what to expect (kickboxing? Kum Ba Yah around a campfire? Thumb wrestling? Earl Grey and biscuits served on lace doilies?) so I don’t really have much to add. Other than that getting there and back […]

A southern gospel artist up for a down-roster Dove nomination sent along this note:

I have enjoyed the back and forth banter on the Dove situation. We were nominated for XXXX and did not even know until someone called and told us. We put no effort into the nomination but found out our label […]

With apologies to the Carpetbagger report (whose mini-report idea I’m shamelessly ripping off), a roundup of stuff that doesn’t rise to a stand-alone post but seems worth mentioning anyway.

*From reader DC: “Watching Tony Peace today and he played a ridiculous song called “I lost my wife at Walmart.” Is this Southern Gospel? […]

Allow me the point of personal privilege to note an AVFL first: my father posted this wonderful comment in the unChristlike thread. As regular readers know, I try to keep the focus here on ideas and issues and themes rather than on me personally, and by and large I think this approach works. But one […]

I really wish there was a way to view details about a songs on my iPod. What I’m looking for here is for each song file to be associated with basic liner note information about it: who wrote it, year published, publisher. Obviously I’d be giving up some memory for this kind of info that […]