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Jason Crabb
Jason Crabb
Spring Hill, 2009
ALI: 83%
The first line of the first song, “Somebody Like Me,” on Jason Crabb’s new album says a lot about his debut solo album:

The congregation parted like the Red Sea,
When that old drunk stumbled in down the aisle
And took a seat, right in the middle of Amazing Grace
It suffers alone […]

Mickey Gamble has an interesting post up over at Gospeleer about what he calls “the poverty mentality” of southern gospel:
There is a widely held belief in our genre that degrades both the value of the artist and the level of support that fans will indulge.  That belief is that our fans live lives of economic […]

Last week, you may recall a discussion on this and other sites about the Perrys streaming a concert live via the internet. Mickey Gamble praised it as a stroke of great foresight … by “someone.”
Indeed.
In the mailbox this a.m., a note from Libbi Perry Stuffle:
We had nothing to do with video streaming the youth conference. […]

What’s on your mind? Some things to occupy the time while you think.

Mickey Gamble over at Gospeleer thinks the Perrys have the right idea streaming live feeds of their concerts for free. My question to anyone who caught the recent webcast: what was the quality? And if you’re a diehard (what Mickey calls “followers”), does […]

Via Avery’s old pal, Dean Adkins, and apropos the “what’s lost with overproduced band tracks” conversation:

Plus, you gotta love orange suits and shag carpet.

A while back, I mentioned having wished for some time for an effective remake of “God on the Mountain.” I think, via Adam Edwards, I may have found it.
The audio is crap (sorry, Adam), and the quality is what you get when Uncle Bob or whomever at the family gathering does the video work, […]

I had a post up here earlier this evening about Greater Vision and popular taste vs being led by your creative lights. But it turns out the post was based on a bogus reading of the facts, so I took it down. The point I was trying to make about the limits of the “nobody […]

This may not be of interest to you if you A) don’t know what DRM is and/or don’t care, or B) don’t own a Kindle. But given our regular discussion of new media and digital commerce, this story about DRM nightmares with Amazon’s popular new ebook reader sure does feel like a cautionary tale about […]

Basically, it turns whatever it touches to trash, according to David Sessions (h/t, RDB). Money quote:
[A]s long as the lumbering Salem monopoly controls the Christian music press, what Christians read about God’s music will be just as bad as the websites in the Salem network look.
[snip]
For now, the Salem monopoly’s presence is here to keep […]

It’s official. Facebook is making the world go completely, solipsistically insane. Avery just received this message:
Kyle Boreing became a fan of Kyle Boreing on Facebook and suggested you become a fan too.
I’m no Facebook hater, but WTF. Reminds me of that Conan O’Brien joke from a few weeks ago. “In the Year 3000 … all […]