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Consider this your Thanksgiving open thread. See you in a few days.

Wanna get to know your local neighborhood blogger better? The site Typealyzer purports to analyze a blog and determine its author’s type on the Myers-Briggs scale. I’ve never taken a Myers-Briggs test before, so I don’t know how accurate the test is for me. But those who have suggest Typealyzer’s accuracy is “scary.” I’ve always […]

Because you can never have too much Teddy Huffam (big h/t, Grigs):

I wasn’t sure about the details of the clip, so I asked around a bit for some help. A friend of mine replied:

This is from Live In Orlando - Teddy Huffam and the Gems.  For a period of time in the late 80’s […]

In this past Sunday’s Times Book Review, Joe Queenan addresses himself to the problem of unjustifiably enthusiastic reviews. Perhaps not exactly a problem around here so much of the time (though not even I am immune). But nevertheless, it’s a timely discussion given the most recent flare-up of joyful noisers. Money quote (just replace all […]

I’d be really grateful if you’d take a few minutes to fill out Blogreaders’ 2008 survey that gathers demographic information about a blog’s readership. We did this last year, and the results were illuminating. AVFL’s readership has grown substantially since then, and even if it hadn’t, it’s helpful for me to have good data about […]

An interesting discussion is fitfully developing at the latest open thread about why more gospel singers don’t also play an instrument while they sing. Thus NG:

Paisley and Urban are two country artists who sing, play lead guitar tremendously and write much of their material.
Why can’t there be a gospel group with a tenor playing […]

In his response to my critique of the “Satisfied” clip from the Gaither Vocal Band Reunion, David Bruce Murray says:

Besides, the appeal of this upcoming GVB reunion video isn’t about whether or not the singers can still cut it. The appeal is seeing them together again. I enjoyed Danny Funderburk on the Cathedral Reunion Tour […]

From Tori Taff, the Gaitherite wife of Gaitherite Russ Taff:
OK, I do realize that attempting to address the vitriolic Gaither-hating on this site is an exercise in futility, but you know… sometimes the wife of a “histrionic, emotionalistic, over-singing, Gaither-light waving, badly dressed, prematurely atrophied career” singer just needs to get a couple of […]

I’ll be traveling the next few days for work, so consider this the place to entertain yourself if none of the other recent threads are doing it for you.
I’ll kick things off: Southern gospel managed to avoid getting cut from the lineup of the Sirius-XM sat rad merger. Discuss. Or not.
See you soon.

A clip from the forthcoming Gaither Vocal Band Reunion. This excerpt is a reprise of GVB’s Classics cover of “Satisfied” (h/t, dd). 

Boy howdy, what a mess. Nevermind that Terry Franklin is conspicuously missing from the tenor spot here (I’ve heard Terry Franklin; Terry Franklin was a favorite of mine … and Wes Hampton is […]

Like so many others lately, Salem Communications - or, as we sg provincials like to think of it, the Singing News mothership - has taken a beating in the stock market. In the past year, Salem stock has dropped from around $8 a share to, as of this moment, $.88 a share – well into penny […]

For the curious or those just wanting a distraction from the wait for election returns, here’s a clip of Jason Crabb holding down the center of “Worthy is the Lamb” with the Gaither Vocal Band at a recent Homecoming event (h/t, S).  I kinda had the same reaction as a friend of mine: “mmm…i never […]

Our fitful feature – wherein you ask me something and I hazard an answer – is back. This installment comes from regular reader CVH, sending along the press release announcing Janet Paschal’s new album release and asking:

So what do you think?  A hymns project (which was well done and well received) and now a […]