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Eddie Crook is in the news a lot lately. First, the inaugural “Eddie” Awards were given out recently. And now NQC has announced that Crook’s recording company will be awarding prizes at the 2008 NQC talent competition (if memory serves, this isn’t the first time ECC has been in this role, is it?). Several of […]

I gotta say, I was really surprised by the stridency of feeling on both sides that the mere mention of Ricky Atkinson’s name brought up in the comments thread of a post that didn’t have anything to do with Atkinson or his group (at least not initially anyway). Beyond having heard the group a few […]

I’ve verified the authenticity of this post (having spoken on the phone with the author and contacted Roy Hayes and Vivici/CMP), and am as comfortable as you can be online that the author is who he says he is. Thus I’m resposting the Dissent of the Day as it appeared yesterday, with your comments (for […]

As you will see, I’ve taken down the AGM-related Dissent of the Day that I posted yesterday evening. It’s not something I like to do, removing posts, but the more I read some of your comments and thought about it, the more it seemed warranted in this case, until or unless I have additional information […]

Not too long ago, I got a note from Roy Hayes, president of Vivici Inc., an affiliate of Christian Music Presenters, which is a big player in the American Gospel Music boondoggle enterprise we’ve talked about from time to time here. Hayes was writing about the AGM Carnegie Hall event in late November and how […]

To begin with, a confession: I am among the many thousands across the Western world who at this time of year participate in choral events that inflict Handel’s Hallelujah chorus upon our communities. I apologize, dear readers. In the choir of which I am part, we attempt to atone for this musical transgression by singing […]

We’ve pretty much hashed out the gospel-music-and-Grammys issue in the past (see here, among other places), so no need to re-cover that ground. Put another way: I don’t have a lot to say about KPNR getting a nomination. My main reaction to the news, coming as it does a year after another Daywind artist who […]

Kyle Boreing asks an interesting question: if songs like “Jesus Take the Wheel” can come out in secular country and then be adopted by gospel audiences – a so-called reverse crossover – why can’t it work the other way? Why can’t some songs originally released in sg be (re)released to country and adopted by those […]

Now here’s something: Daniel Mount notes that several of Amazon’s top 25 Christian music videos are (Gaither) gospel. I’ll leave it to you to sort out all the various socioeconomic reasons for this (would nice to be able to compare these sales to top viewed YouTube videos for Christian music - my suspicion is the […]

Do the Hoppers really “average singing to over 1 million concert goers” a year, as recent press releases of theirs have claimed? (Hat tip, AD) The Singing News has them listed as doing fewer than 10 concerts in December 2007, or, counting generously, about 120 dates year. At that pace, they’d have to be singing […]