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David Bruce Murray has posted what he calls “three generations” of “What A Savior.” First up is Ernie Haase a few weeks after he joined the Cathedrals. Then there’s Charles Billingsley at Thomas Road Baptist Church. And finally Rosie Rozell with the Masters V. They’re worth checking out (especially the Masters V, if for nothing […]

Over at southerngospelblog recently, Daniel Mount ran a couple posts about singer/songwriters in gospel music. And though we’ve been down this road before, Mount’s posts got me thinking about the singer/songwriter bias in gospel music, namely: what’s behind the preference for songs written and performed by the same person?
Mount argues it has to with the […]

Because I’m sure we were, at some recent point … speaking of quartets, that is.
Quartet-loving readers in and around Chicagoland might be interested in catching Million Dollar Quartet, now playing at the Apollo (h/t, SS’s FB page). The play is about the (real) time when Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins […]

In two parts.
Part one: Did anyone else notice the pic of Guy Penrod and his kid, Tyler, taken at a recent TBN taping (CeCe Winans hosting)? If you missed it, it’s still up over at gospelmusicupdate.  Because, you know, no one can get enough of GP. There are also some Barbara Mandrell shots, assuming you […]

Somewhere in the archives I recall our discussing the Speer Family’s concept video of “City Coming Down.” I can’t find that discussion but no matter. Since I’d never seen the actual video before (and since it’s now available on youtube), here’s a clip of the video (via avfl comments via DBM, who has a “name […]

Regular readers not doubt remember my prolonged swoon over Mercy’s Mark when the group debuted way back when, followed by the inevitable let-down when the too-good-to-last original formation dissolved and more mediocre replacements came on board. Eventually (and predictably), the group fizzled.
Now via Facebook (h/t, JW), Garry Jones is plugging two upcoming dates for the […]

Via Burke, they have one. Smart stuff. Lots of interesting possibilities. Inevitably there will be the Luddite reactionaries complaining, as one customer does at iTunes, that the app is basically “buy buy BUY” (uhm, duh) and another complained about the short clips.  But this is the kind of thing that pays dividends twice: once when […]

Some stuff that’s going on around the blogosphere and interwebs:

Gordon Mote won the Music City Award for Piano/Keyboard Player of the Year for 2009. My handy press release tells me this is “an honor awarded to the artist who has performed on the most Top 10 selling albums for the year.”And it’s quite […]

[Note: since this entry was posted, Mickey Gamble has addressed the issue over at Gospeleer]
As some of you may have noticed, it looks like that provocative Gospeleer post on sexuality and scripture we were discussing last week has been taken down.
When I first saw the post was missing, my reactions were, in order […]

So there’s that thing the Kingsmen were known for back in the day – you know, where they go from pianissimo to mezzo forte in the space of a measure or less, often using a drum kick and sometimes revoicing the harmonies and occasionally double-timing the rhythm to end big … Here’s an example, which […]