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You’ll recall one of our evergreen favorites around here when things get slow is the deeply flawed world of gospel music radio and the even more deeply flawed system for charting “hit” songs (just search “radio” in the archives for more on all this). The upshot is, of course, that “chart-topping” songs in southern gospel […]

Any discussion of the Kingsmen in their heyday inevitably must involve Jim Hamill at some point, and I think that time has come. A reader writes:

Every reviewer of music worth his or her salt always looks for and notes those moments in a performance, whether recorded or live, whether created by a musician or […]

It’s an interesting question that reader Oldtimer poses here. OT’s point seems to be that the “three chords and a cloud of dust” approach that the Kingsmen epitomized would be a welcome relief in these latter days of uber-slick, hyper-choreographed, fully tracked, and stratospherically stacked gospel music performance. I’m not really sure the answer […]

I have up til now stayed out of this festival of list-making that Daniel Mount is breeding like citrus canker over at his site, if only because these sorts of things are rather like fantasy sports teams … a self-perpetuating fetish incomprehensible to those of us who have yet to have the fantasy chip implanted […]

A while back in one of our interminable discussions of the mysteriously well-financed phenomenon that is Young Harmony, I recall a crack someone (me?) made to the effect of, what will Young Harmony do when they get old? I guess we now may have part of the answer. According to this Dealer Business Journal report, […]

Avery lives. He just doesn’t write much these days. I’m afraid you’ll have to continue to talk amongst yourselves if you can’t stand the silence for a bit longer. But I promise to be back at some point in the nearish future. And at that point, remind me to tell you why Allison Durham […]