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No, that’s not my sister-in-law’s cousin who lives in Paducah. It’s 1/3 of what Three Bridges used to be until … well … whatever. He’s going solo. And apparently decided, what better way to launch a solo career than to change his name. So now he’s Mitchel Jon.

I emailed a friend about this […]

So way back when, when I was futzing around endlessly with setting up the site, and then again when I was working to migrate the original hand-rolled avfl to wordpress, I remember crossing a few different discussions of how to get your website’s icon to appear in the URL bar at the top of the […]

Allison Lynn has just finished up writing about her week at this year’s SB School of Music. Among other things, it appears SB has added radio promotion to its electives. Interesting. I wonder if anyone is telling the SB students how broken sg radio is? Anyway, since we last left her, Lynn and her husband […]

I’m hoping by linking to this amgs discussion about USB turntables that will burn or record to digital, I’ll get someone who’s actually used one to weigh in, because (like everyone else over there) I’d love to have an easy way get decent quality digital surrogates of my LPs. A while back a friend of […]

From the ever eloquent CVH:
When politics, right, left or centrist, starts to permeate art of any form, it’s time to read, listen or look at something else. It’s hard enough (as numerous discussions on this blog indicate) to encourage good art in a narcissistic, culturally-entrenched, economically-challenged genre of music like southern gospel. Subverting […]

I was a bit rushed with work when I originally posted the query below, so I should probably say by way of full disclosure now that I have time: I really am no big fan of the politicized subgenre of gospel tunes of which “We’ve Got to Get America Back to God” is a representative […]

It appears I failed to burn a copy of the Kelly Thompson Nelon and The Nelons’ disc that included “We’ve Got To Get America Back to God” to my iPod before I packed away the cd and buried it under a mountain of other really heavy boxes. Anyone have the song handy and care to […]

Was Canaan really relaunched to imprint a bunch of compilations and distribute The Ride? I’m prone to be somewhat circumspect about an unposted interview with a sales rep, but it does make a person wonder. Why isn’t Canaan aggressively courting artists like, say, Jason Crabb or Anthony Facello and his new group (or paying a […]

Citing the spate of dissolutions, retirements, and other destabilizing changes over the summer, a reader writes to ask: “Will there be more groups disbanding and is there a cleansing of groups going on in the industry because of the financial climate of sg?”

Answer: I don’t know and I doubt it. The Three Bridges and […]

Dottie Rambo is now hawking her old clothes (i.e. “retired beaded dress”) in a contest built around the sale of her new book, Driving Ms. Dottie (hat tip, CVH). I typically get in a great deal of trouble for criticizing Rambo’s penchant for Do-Anything publicity stunts because of Rambo’s untouchable status as a gospel songwriter. […]