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On Tuesday, I’ll be posting a review of the forthcoming Mark Bishop album (streetdate: June 17), The Fields of Love. It will look and quack (and yes, probably snark) like a regular review. But it will also include an experimental component I’m piloting with Crossroads Music, Bishop’s label, and because, should you choose to involve […]

A new innovation in reviewing from a group of sg bloggers: Check it out. And now I guess we know the answer to the age-old question: how many regular bloggers does it take to write as many words in a single review as I do by myself?

#42: Super shameless cross-product placement promotion - tonight involving Ford hybrids and some select midget humor from - where else - a Mike Myers movie. Tonight’s finale is basically two hours of commercials with some songs ocassionally mixed in.
#43: Having contestants in a solo competition try to sing harmony so the show can whip up […]

If you can tear yourself away from the divorce-o-rama and Gloria Gaither impersonations going on in that most recent, festering open thread, you may have noticed RF’s comment in a more recent thread:

Years ago Guy Penrod pushed Jonathon Pierce right out of a job. Guy had such a big range and it put […]

The Tennessean writes up the Dottie Rambo memorial (hat tip, Jim2).

Is there such a thing? Some people would say, sure: scat. And indeed, Ella Fitzgerald - just to take the readiest example - improvised into existence a whole new vocabulary of the singer’s soul with her scatting abilities, perhaps most famously in this marvelous, classic, dazzling performance of “How High the Moon” from her […]

I’ll be away for a few days so here’s your chance to take the place over, though lately I have the feeling I’m just being allowed the illusion of control and the inmates are really running the asylum. No matter, now may be a good time to do a bit of housekeeping.
David Bruce Murray is […]

From the entertaining Jonathan Sawrie, an insightful take on a potential problem of too many self-proclaimed ministers in song:

Here is what I’ve noticed – countless times.

A gospel performer is on stage and all is going pretty well. The singing is good (most of the time), the crowd is responsive, some humor is intermingled […]

Meet Greater Vision’s new tenor. Actually, we’ve met him before, as the tenor for Tribute quartet, most recently of Harmony Honors fame - the guy who we last saw “prowling about the stage in a half-crouch, wagging his finger at us for emphasis, and generally behaving like a cross between an overheated televangelist and Cat […]

At the toll booth this morning, I gave the attendant a $5 bill for the $2 toll; she gave me back a one- and a two-dollar bill. It’s been so long since I encountered one of these oddities, it actually took me a couple of takes to figure out what was going on (hey, why […]