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With this Greater Vision tenor bidness at the moment, it’s not unlike that portion of the altar call at church on Sunday morning when the invitation is extended and intensified, and everybody waits to see who will peel out of the pew and head down front “while the pianah gently plays.” So while we wait, […]

Jacob Kitson’s short stint with Greater Vision is over. A new name is supposed to be forthcoming.

I’ll have to be more or less away from the blogospheric side of life for the next week or so, so you know what that means: talk amongst yourselves. Some things to get us started.

Reader BM thinks he’s spotted a trend:

It seems to me that it’s becoming popular these days to send out emails […]

Songwriter Joel Lindsey, remembering a tragically talented friend and the power and paradoxes of creative genius:
For all I know he may still be trotting up and down music row pitching his music but the sad thing is, if I had to guess, he probably drank himself to death.  His life was a country song and […]

My wish list for live albums with less talking sparked a lively and interesting discussion about what’s the right mix of song and speechfiying from stage. And the answer is … it depends.
In calling out two musically superior live projects for the excessive loquacity (from your garden variety emcee chatter to pietistic testimony to outright […]

Among the favorite songwriter nominees for the 2010 SN Fan Awards: Joseph Habedank. My only mistake was being too conservative in my guess about his ETA on this list.

Not here, but nearby, over at Musicscribe, where David Bruce Murray is conducting a multi-round survey to try to determine something he’s calling the “Song of the Decade.”

That’s more or less what the SN’s Kenneth Kirskey describes himself doing after getting his fill of fundamentalism’s legalistic self-indulgences. “The rest of us” (for those of you who remember that phrase from the early days) say welcome, Double K.

A one-woman mission to gospelize NYC (h/t, NG).

A friend of mine went to a Perrys concert last night in Springfield, Mo., and since we haven’t had a live music update around here in a while (too long!), I pass along his report fwiw (thanks, Jrod!).

First off, I am a fan to the ‘nth degree. I just love to watch Libbi Stuffle. […]