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What’s going on in the southern gospel world? Let’s turn on the interwebs.

The Gold City Dysfunction Tour continues, with tenor Chris Cooper gone just months after arriving. Daniel Riley couldn’t even muster up a “fair thee well”: “All I can say,” Riley is quoted in this morning’s ShowPrep as saying, “is that Chris […]

Today, a cd I bought off Adam Edwards on eBay arrived, the Perrys, Center Stage Live, from 1996.

This was the era of Mike Bowling and Nicole Watts, when the Perrys were still with Eddie Crook, and Crook’s fingerprints are all over the project stylistically: the driving country rhythms and often overbearing steel guitar; the […]

The Kingsmen, like you’ve never heard them before, put the ole Roadhog and his Cadillac Cowboys to shame (h/t, ME):

FTR the original is here, but somehow, it’s just not nearly as good.

Have I mentioned before how far superior the Cathedrals’ gobsmackingly good “Every Day, Every Hour” (High and Lifted Up) is to the Gaither Vocal Band’s silly techno-pop cotton-candy version (Peace of the Rock)? The Cats’ arrangement has such vocal presence and immediacy, such harmonic precision and perfectly arced musical thoughts, and then there’s that astounding […]

Part of what accounts my recent bloggerly silence is work on a couple of book chapters about the history (and historiography) of southern gospel, and one issue I’ve had to deal with recently is the question of race and southern gospel - specifically, how comparatively late into the twentieth century mainstream southern  gospel acts were […]

Reader HP writes to asks:
Since Singing News went to subscription based website, could that be hurting attendance at concerts, since that is making it much more difficult for folks like me to keep track of who is where and when? The last good SG concert info I got was on CCM’s […]