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Kyle Boreing has a delightfully geeky post about ephemeral recording oddities that only other careful listeners can truly appreciate.

If this entire Wade Weaver story (latest update via DBM) had been concocted for a parody news site, they would have rejected it as too perfect by half. I mean, c’mon. A guy who looks like he was sent straight from central casting for this story, running an outfit called the “Heaven Bound Talent Agency,” […]

This reader may be painting with a slightly overbroad brush, but the point is not inapt all the same:
Everybody is up in the air about someone “stealing” by copying an artist’s CD. All the while, most artists and so-called labels are not paying the songwriter royalties due from the CD’s they did sell at full […]

Watching this clip that Kyle Boreing dug up on youtube of Roger Bennett describing strategies for southern gospel pianists (particularly letting the bass guitar keep the down beats and learning to play in the hold), I recalled the set of instructional videos Bennett put out 15 or 20 years ago. I don’t think this clip […]

Whenever the issue of piracy and gospel music comes up, it’s only a matter of time before you hear some version of this story (via southerngospelblog):

I’m small-time compared to some of you folks. Still, it’s all I can do to hold my tongue when someone stands at our product table and says to his buddy, […]

Regular reader CVH nails it:
You can’t have a blog about an industry, even an industry that is based on religious music and its related culture, unless you look at it from a critical point of view. The people here who immediately take a thread and hyperspiritualize it miss the point. We’re not in a masters […]

Kyle Boreing has joined David Bruce Murray’s (mostly silent) group of blogging partners. Good luck, KB.

This two-man quartet clip (via DBM) that’s been making the round is really just wonderfully delightful. Take a look.

I’ve failed to mention this for a while but you may (or, more likely, may not) have noticed that the never quite […]

A reader calls out some fellow commenters for overplaying the “Love of Jesus” card, and in the process raises the dilemma that the orthodox believer faces when confronted with unorthodoxy, particularly in online conversation:

Every time any of us click on the site in our browsers or  take the time to post a comment, we’re endorsing.  […]