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The Recording Industry Association of America’s latest claim? It’s illegal to create copies of your own CDs and store them on your personal computer.
Happy new year. See you in jail.
Update: you’ll want to note this update from the Wash Post on this story. On the question of the RIAA’s prosecution of file-sharing, the larger issue […]

I’ll be away from the blog most of the next week. That doesn’t mean a post or two might not slip by, but in case I don’t see you until then, happy new year too.

Apropos our discussion of what a post-Gaither landscape might look like, longtime reader Ben Harris writes:

Maybe a better question would be who is going to take Gloria’s place? From all I have heard from people who were often on the Homecoming series, she was the one with the plan.

An excellent point. For […]

Speaking of the singing convention tradition and Gaither, as I did in passing below, allow me to engage a little shameless self-promotion and mention this conference - Farther Along, a conference on southern gospel singing conventions - that Middle Tennessee State University is hosting in the spring of 08.
I’ll be presenting a paper titled “The […]

A longtime reader saw this announcement about the Nick Trammell engagement to Jessica Brown and asked me if I thought the Perrys would be much, much better if Trammell ends up joining the Browns after the wedding.

Interesting question. Obviously this assumes he would join the Browns in the first place, and there’s a long […]

What will the world look like after Gaither leaves the scene? I have no idea, I should say, but in a way, we’re already post-Gaither. The thing about the world after Himself is that, given what he’s done to Chrisitian music generally and gospel music specifically, it’s no longer a question of (with apologies to […]

I’ve been traveling through most of the latest NQC developments, which means that much of the time I’ve had one eye on the computer and the other on the roadmap. At any rate, and perhaps needless to say given the boneheadedness of my remarks in the post below on the issue, I hadn’t looked closely […]

Holiday traveling (I finally saw one of those YH/KPNR billboards outside Chattanooga … hooo boy!) and other stuff will keep distracting me from much new posting for a bit longer, so feel free to talk amongst yourselves. Will the Thursday night NQC line-up be strong enough to bring weekenders like me in a day early, […]

Writing that post on The Eddies, I was reminded of an email exchange I had with a friend recently. Thus my friend:

For a lot of different reasons, most of the concerts I’ve attended of late have been those of part-time groups. The weekend warrior types. To borrow the favorite euphemism of the Baptists - […]

I’m hearing that we might expect a big announcement from NQC about an “arrangement” the convention has reached with two major SG artists for 2008 whose recent absence at NQC has been conspicuous. That’s all I got, and it could turn out to be a bust, but I guess we’ll see. Stay tuned.
Update: our crack […]