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From a new novel about  music and the muse:
Two months ago, she was raw and unblended; tonight she was reasonably effective; someday very soon she would be in danger of marbling over into a slick cast impression of herself. The target was only microns wide, and history’s great singers may simply have been those who […]

Given southern gospel’s tendency to exploit a concept long past its shelf life, it can be easy to forget how wonderful a thing was at one time. Via Adam Edwards, here’s a clip of Hamill horsewhipping the KingsGold boys through a gloriously garish rendition of “I’m Wingin’ My Way.”Listen to the way the tag restacks […]

A reader provides another view on royalties:
I work for an SG artist who is VERY committed to paying royalties. However, this business of royalty paying is more of an art than a science. I cannot tell you how complicated the process is. Not only is the publishing information near impossible to find on some songs, […]

That’s the way the good folks over at sogospelnews.com rendered the URL for this site in their version of the press release announcing the Diamond Awards finalists (Avery is up for favorite industry website this year). Because, you know, that way no one will find out what URL they’re talking about or be able to […]

Regarding the “Guy Is Burned Out” angle: The Gaithers do such a small amount of dates I am not sure how getting burned out would be the issue. It is all speculation of course, but Gaither has always subscribed to the “work smarter not harder” way of doing things and for years have had the […]

Some items that don’t really warrant a post of their own but are still worth pointing out:

Via musicscribe, The Nelons are doing some sort of reality show for SkyAngel television.

The SGMG’s annual Tuesday Night concert during GMA week appears to be ditching the format of last year’s odd pseudo-awards show  approach and going instead with […]

GMA week is coming up soon and it’s got me thinking a lot about sg within the larger contexts of Christian music, and so about the the macro movements in music entertainment (As an aside, I can’t say I have high hopes for this year’s SGMG GMA week southern gospel event. The past few years […]

Is it just me, or do these clips of Glenn Beck remind anyone else of a thousand hackilicious gospel performers who’ve tried to turn on the badly contrived affect and lacrimous chin-quivering in order to create a spayshul speerchul moment during a performance?