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In the course of a discussion going on here about BFA’s failure to launch, reader SE diagnoses the group’s problem this way.

I think their last few projects are so pitch perfect and so sonically maximized that they leave the listener aurally tired after listening to an entire project. They electronically tweak the vocals to the […]

Great news, music fans. According to this comment, Daywind has released a slew of classic albums:
BLACKWOOD BROS/GIVE THE WORLD A SMILE SUNDAY MEETIN TIME
MASTERS V / CLASSICS OF YESTERYEAR & O WHAT A SAVIOR CD
OAK RIDGE QUARTET / RIVER OF LIFE & SING FOR YOU
SPEER FAMILY / FAMILY FAVORITES & KEEP A HAPPY HEART
STATESMEN / […]

I’m back, so let’s get started on the miscellaneous stuff we’ve missed in my absence.

Via Adam Edwards, there’s another clip out of the Perrys singing another song from their new album live.

Via Musicscribe, there will, evidently, be a sg quilt at NQC.

For those of you who enjoy southern gospel funerals, Burke has […]

From reader Paul:
I remember Susan Speer at Massey Hall in Toronto in the early ’70’s…I was a young university student and she sat in the back of the hall following intermission and fanned her face with a large stack of dollar bills received from album sales.
I love it.

My first reaction to the news that the LeFevre Quartet has “retired” the group’s family name - and rechristened themselves Priority - was WTF? As Adam Edwards said:

 Honestly, I don’t really understand this move whatsoever. … The group is based on Mike LeFevre’s name, status, history, etc., so is the expense of changing your name […]

Mickey Gamble, a Crossroads executive, has added his voice to the blogosphere. Since the southern gospel blog revolution back in the middle part of the decade, no single industry figure in sg has, to my mind, shown more meaningful curiosity about new media and music than Mickey. For artists and other insiders wondering what digital […]

By now you’ve all doubtless heard about the most recent personnel changes:

Derrick Selph leaving BFA, and Chris Cooper joining GC. Selph never really seemed to have found or hit his stride as a vocalist or a stage presence, and if we’re talking about the most sustainable careers for a young person to be in, […]

Though I haven’t been around here lately I have been busy and I’m going to take a few off this week, which will prolong the hiatus of regularly scheduled blogging. In the meantime, talk amongst yourselves. Some items to get us started.

Eric Phillips has left Mark Trammel Trio.

Bob Terrell has died. I learned of this […]

Driving back to my hotel just now, I heard Taranda Greene’s “There You Are” and nearly drove off the road (in a good way). In the mad dash I made to buy it on iTunes as soon I got to my room, I also saw she covered “God on the Mountain” - how I missed […]