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Even though being bogged down at work has kept me  away from the blogosphere, I get the impression not a great deal is going on out there in the world of sg right now. Bad economy? Too distracted by the election? Fortunately we’ve moved on from politics around here, but we have had to go […]

From Wade:
“planned spontaneity.” onemadeupmind is RIGHT!!!
The VERY FIRST TIME I had JADED thoughts about Gospel Music was as a YOUNG Man of about 10.
My Uncle dated a daughter of a well known GM Player. I lived in Chattanooga, but we would go to Mull’s Singing Conventions in all the markets her was in. Knoxville & […]

Our favorite (and maybe only?) Irish reader, Irishlad, mentioned a clip of the Crabb Family singing the old Hinsons classic “I Could Still Go Free” and so I went and tracked it down. Take a look (the embed feature has been disabled, but it’s worth clicking through to). 
I remember this moment vividly from NQC […]

Eliminate “Maybe” from the first line and I’d say this gets it just about right.
Maybe it’s the money.  While secular artists/record companies/archivists really have the stash to properly preserve and appreciate the historical archives of their genre, maybe this industry does not.  And maybe no one really cares.
I have been on the front lines of […]

Via reader MM, a vintage Hinsons clip. At MM’s recommendation, I’d urge you to skip to around the 6:00 mark when the song slows down and Kenny Hinson improvises his way through a long verse. I have no idea what Ronnie Hinson means when he says, “Jump on it, Jesus” in response to Kenny’s vocal […]

I’ve been intending to write a post for a few days now about how disappointingly typical it is of southern gospel that no one seems terribly surprised to imagine entire swaths of a major label’s archive being destroyed, lost, or - at the very least - mismanaged and neglected. But then one of our favorite […]

Is it really true that, as commenter EM suggests, many of the old Benson masters were destroyed when it was acquired by Provident? Destroyed? Can anybody confirm this?

Kyle is on the case.

I don’t know exactly when it was, but at some point along the way I think this site’s critics lapped themselves, so that now the job of the dissenters is not so much to say something new but to level a version of the same basic critiques in more and more innovative ways. And boy […]

So last night, I watched Frontline’s biography of Richard Nixon (fascinating stuff, natch) and about half-way through, we get to the part where Nixon is bogged down in Vietnam. You may well remember this bit of history: In an effort to rally his core supporters, he goes to a Billy Graham Crusade and gives what […]