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He’s leaving Gold City, according to the group’s MySpace page:
Gold City has announced that Steve Ladd has resigned his position as tenor vocalist. Steve has been with the group for almost 5 years. He will be taking a job as worship leader in a church near Gadsden, AL. (h/t, CG).
His voice was never […]

I’m elbow deep in term papers and final exams, so you’ll have to make do with the wisdom of others. This, from one of today’s better comments:
If a CCM artist is copying a secular cousin, how does that make their genre worse than SG, who has been copying itself for the last 60 years?
To me, […]

I TiVo’d the Doves to watch later, and listened to the different genres with rather more pleasure than dismay.
Contemporary Christian Music is supposed to be CONTEMPORARY music, and that will slice across all genres, I would think. While some folks, the author of this blog included, will fuss and fume grumpishly about the “copycat” nature […]

I confess that in some ways I don’t feel qualified to comment on the Doves beyond 140 characters of length. For one thing, my awareness of CCM is peripheral at best, and more substantively, I just don’t like most of what I hear.
As I wrote during the show, “I don’t consider myself old fashioned but […]

Mostly because I feel bad that people keep “following” me on twitter and I haven’t tweeted in months, I’m going to try twittering the Dove awards tonight. Not sure how it will go. I last tweeted from NQC back in September but found it a mixed experience over all. I use my Blackberry to post, […]

Is southern gospel becoming the place where aging Baby Boomer performers from country music go to maintain an adoring fan base? The Oaks certainly seem to have found a second wind with sg fans. And Barbara Mandrell was honored just this week by the Southern Gospel Music Guild for … something.
The official reason: “Barbara Mandrell […]

Since I’ve taken shots after the years at the SN’s website (most recently noting the apparent disinvestment in the existing site),  it’s probably worth pointing out (via Daniel Mount) that the SN currently has a redesigned beta site up.

After reading this story, a reader wrote in to wonder what would happen if an Ivy Leaguer infiltrated an sg group (h/t, TM). Heheh.

This year I wasn’t able to make it to Nashville in time for the Tuesday night concert hosted by the Southern Gospel Music Guild last night. But a few folks who were there have promised to send in some thoughts. I’ll be posting these as they arrive.
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Some traveling is going to require a hiatus this week. Talk amongst yourselves. Some seeds for the discussion:

Bill Gaither will host a sing-a-long at NQC. The more things change …

I forgot to mention a week or so ago that there’s a new talent and management agency out there operated by none other than the inimitably […]