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Well, it happened, dear readers. I was out in a big box store minding my own shopperly bidness, when I heard the most dreaded, four-note sequence known to the American shopper in the months of November and December: that cutesy little ba-dum-bum-bum walk-down from the V to II just before Brenda Lee, whose voice I’m […]

Since I think we’ve pretty much exhausted what there is to say and re-say about scripture and translation and how it can(not) be that the KJV is the literal word of God and full of subjective translational decisions about how to get Hebrew and Greek into English, let’s have a new open thread!
Some things to […]

So the Diplomats – lightning rod group du jour – are on the cover of the Singing News. I’ve only heard them briefly at the NQC, where they were oversinging, out of tune, and out of any new material. This didn’t strike me as any big deal at the time, since I assumed they were […]

Thanks to reader KC for the heads up on this review of the Gaither Tour abroad.

In the course of a larger comment-thread discussion about scripture and music, a reader traces forward the evolution of Beulah Land in gospel song:
If you are looking in the Bible, you’re looking in the wrong place for the origin of “Beulah” as used by Squire Parsons and other contemporary gospel songwriters.
It comes instead from the […]

I’m about to head out the door to the airport, so you’ll have to continue to chat amongst yourselves … there’s some stuff here, here, here, and here (h/t, NG).