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He’s back on the road with the Old Paths Quartet, “and we don’t know why.” That last bit of barbed wire is from Chuck Peters over at southerngospelreporter.com, who appears to relish sticking it to Jeremy Peace just a scosh too much. But there is something admittedly strange about the way this has all played […]

I’m thrilled to see that the Crabb Revival – Adam, Terah, Justin Ellis, and Zach Smith – will be staging with a full band (thus Smith and Eillis). But doesn’t this act run the risk of pretty quickly degenerating into the “Is Jason Crabb Gonna Get Here Soon?” tour?

Color me a little creeped out too.

Yes, yes … Denny as Kenny. But do we really need another adenoidal cowboy poseur? Rather than America’s next whatever (or counterintuitive theorizing about the Kingdom Heirs giving up the gold mine at Dollywood for the pennypinching of the road), I’m more interested in whether or not anyone has heard anything about why Steve French […]

So given the Spring Hill implosion, the chances of the Oak Ridge Boys looking for (or needing) a new label seem pretty high. It would be unfortunate for the Oaks to wind up with a full blown country label: in the first place, it’s clear that despite the official distance that southern gospel puts between […]

So today is the day for calling it quits, I guess. Mitch Kenitzer and Dave McVay have resigned from Three Bridges, effectively ending the group as it has come to be known. I gather that Elliot McCoy has a desire to continue with a group of some as yet unspecified sort that will work under […]

I was just about to sit down and write a short post noting that evidently the Florida Boys had bumped lead Josh Garner up to tenor and Les Beasley was singing lead in wake of Harold Reed’s recent departure (if you’ve heard a certain bootleg audio clip of Beasley from a NQC performance a while […]

The master has signed an “exclusive agreement” with River Bend, the studio run by the former Goodman Johnny Minick and his son, Aaron. Now, “exclusive agreement” is a loaded and often deeply misleading term as it gets used in a lot of music-industry press releases (esp small-time southern gospel, where “X has signed an exclusive […]

1) An anecdotal report from a recent EHSSQ concert. These kinds of isolated pieces of testimony are interpretatively meaningless, of course. I offer it mostly as a way of paying my respects to the old adage that judges a performance by how well it plays in Peoria.
Update: In the interest of fairness, it’s probably worth […]

I’ve gotten a couple of emails about this and now I see a commenter brought it up, but Spring Hill has evidently fired all or most of its staff in a fit of corporate (yes, I’m going to pun now) spring cleaning. Reader quartet-man says one of the Oaks is writing about it at their […]