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I’ve tried to limit the traffic updates as much as possible, lest I seem self-aggrandizing. But now may be a good time update traffic stats. So for what it’s worth, in March (the last complete month of stats), AVFL averaged about 8000 hits a day, 1700 unique visits daily, and 3400 page views per day. […]

The Dove Awards present the student of sg with a bit of a quandary. In order to see the awards given in the southern gospel categories, you have to sit through the pre-show – a 2+ hour slog with very few (if any) live performances to interrupt the tedious scripted banter from the counter-intuitively paired […]

Zane King, this year’s SGMG president, sassily offers that familiar critique that I’m all carp and no constructive help:

[I]n the future, I would love to hear your wonderfully expressed dialogue about the “problems” of our genre followed by a carefully outlined strategy that helps to us overcome the hurdles that we face. I’m […]

I write to you, dear readers, from the middle of GMA week in Nashville the morning after the annual Tuesday night Southern Gospel Music Guild showcase of southern gospel talent. If NQC is a chance to hear the range of what southern gospel offers, the showcase is a quick finger on the pulse, a way […]

It’s GMA week. Didn’t know? Don’t worry. Only two or three other people in sg do, and unlike me, most of them get paid to care. One standard feature of the weeklong string of Christian music-related events is a songwriter’s showcase. I’ve been getting notes from a few people who attended, so I thought I’d […]

So this is pretty much off the top of my head and it may already be in place and I just haven’t seen it. But I’d love to be able to go to a radio station’s website, call up its play list, find the song I just heard that I liked or remember wanting to […]

Did I read this wrong, or is the songwriter Sue C. Smith very politely saying she wasn’t invited or otherwise notified that she was up for an award at the SGN’s Ovations awards? And she won! At least she didn’t have to bother fussing over an acceptance speech.

Some friends gave me a pair of their season tickets to the symphony the other night, and it was a delightful evening of Strauss, Bernstein, and Brahams (his angsty first piano concerto). This should go without saying at this point in civilization but from I hear (quite literally) it needs to be repeated a little […]

After reading Michael English’s new autobiography, David Bruce Murray is having some very serious, thoughtful, and (in the blogosphere) rare second thoughts about his longstanding support for English. Money quote:

I’ve drawn a few conclusions in the past few hours. One is that I was extremely gullible at the time…gullible to the point that I […]

Daniel Mount finds it “surprising” that Gold City took home so many awards at the Sogospelnews.com Ovations shindig recently. Which is, well, surprising. For my part, I’d have been surprised only if Gold City HADN’T won big. They’re the highest profile and most accomplished talent signed with Southern Spin Entertainment, a minor fiefdom in the […]