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That didn’t take long. A website devoted solely to pushing back against whining about the Singing News’s recent changes to the charting system. Gospel Music Coalition aims to “ensure every artist and songwriter gets an equal opportunity in airplay and charting privileges.” There are a lot of assumptions embedded in there that strike me as […]

Just a heads up. The next few days the IT interns will be doing some technical updates and adjustments to things around here so if you try to hit the site and it’s down or you try to post comments and it doesn’t work, that’s probably why. We’ll try to have you back to regularly scheduled programming […]

Scott McDowell is leaving (has left?) BFA? So says commenter undercover. If it’s true I’ll be at least as interested in where McDowell does (not) go as who his replacement is. Behind Stan Whitmire and Justin Ellis, he’s probably among the most gifted keyboard players in gospel music right now.

Commenter Bob writes:

I don’t understand, All three groups at a church for a L O. When I called to have just 1 group come to Ohio they want to charge $4 to $5K. How do you get all three to come for a LO.

[Am] I missing something ???

I can get 350 […]

Date: Sunday, November 3
Location: Orlando, Florida
Setting: First Baptist Church, Orlando
Occasion: FBC-O Free Gospel Concert event
Average age guesstimate: 58
Opening act: mercifully, none, but while I killed time before the show, I found this wonderful note scrawled in child’s script inside the Praise! Our Songs and Hymns book in the book rack: “OZZIE: Where is my gameboy? […]

There’s a fascinating thread of comments from readers at Matt Yglesias’s blog about finding an ideal balance in blog postings. I know you’ll be shocked to here this, but I tend to write long and tedious blog posts, so I offer all this without amendment to reform. (I have to communicate with discipline and […]

I still don’t know for sure how the Kingsmen would be received today, but someone who was reading our latest KM discussions seems to think the demand for the old KM music remains pretty strong. The bidding for two used cds of old Kingsmen live cds on eBay opens at $50.

Is it possible the NQC board unilaterally decided to move the Singing News fan awards from Thursday night to Saturday afternoon and to charge $20 a head for it - without consulting the SN? That’s what I’ve been hearing, anyway. And Kenneth Kirksey of the SN confirms as much. The only thing else he’d say […]

So my ISP tells me that the the Wordpress PHP script on my index file is apparently causing excess CPU usage (I’ve been quarantined to a special server, evidently). I know next to nothing about these issues, so I’m wondering if any savvier technical minds out there than mine have some theories. Could it be […]

My earlier post on SN changes to the chart has generated a flurry of chatter, including David Bruce Murray’s post here. Aside from ignoring everything after the “but” in my reaction to the SN changes, he makes some good points, especially about chart speed.

To be perfectly honest, I just don’t get too amped […]