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In case anyone would like to talk about something other than Gold City, consider this space yours. A few things to kick us off:

Wilburn and Wilburn have signed with Daywind. According to Daniel Mount, Jay Parrack is singing occasionally with them. How soon before the Gold City Redivivus hype begins? Drat, Gold City again … […]

Well, judging by the 120+ comments proliferating around my most recent post on Gold City’s very long, very public goodbye to its own integrity, I think it’s safe to say that Gold City Fatigue Syndrome is not contagious.
For the most part, there’s been a lot of heat but not much light […]

A while back we had a conversation about the mediocrity of so much of what passes for Christian creative culture. Comes now The Book of Mormon, a new musical from, among others, the creators of South Park and Avenue Q. It sure doesn’t sound like it’s for the squeamish, but from the reviews I’ve seen […]

Not necessarily in that order.
First, a continuation of a post from a bit ago about the death of the music industry.  In the process of a larger discussion of the internet and the economy, this post quotes an expert explaining the way digital culture has rearranged music and commerce:
“Because you and I stopped buying CDs, […]

Dear readers, I’ve got a bad case of it. Yes, lately the group appears to have become something of a serially mismanaged hot mess. Yes, abruptly canceling a concert and leaving a vacuum of no information for days, and then putting out a snarky press release whose headline demands that we Stop The Rumors and […]

I’ve been so busy writing about gospel elsewhere lately (mainly, late-stage revisions to the book) that I haven’t had much time to write about southern gospel here. Mea cupla, dear neglected ones. I would apologize on behalf of Avery’s derelict interns, but they appear to have hied themselves away to some undisclosed location in protest […]

As part of a recent discussion about Big Chief Wetherington, ethnicity, and southern gospel, regular Irish reader Irishlad made reference to a moonwalking first generation Indo-Pakistani Irish kid who won a talent contest in Ireland Scotland singing “Happy Rhythm” a la Signature Sound.
No, really! Turns out, the kid’s name is Colet Selwyn. Here he is […]