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The iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch users will notice that when you open the home page, you will now (or should, at least) see a prompt that will ask you if want to add a shortcut icon for this site to your home screen.
I had asked the interns to look into this option while I […]

Some music recently performed in memory of Harold Lane (h/t, KC):

I covet that bow tie.
More clips here and here.

So John Ashcroft, former governor of and senator from Missouri, former Attorney General, as well as that great lover of southern gospel who wrote  “Let the Mighty Eagle Soar” and was part of the Singing Senators, will be this year’s keynote speaker at NQC. Last year, you will recall, Sarah Palin gave the keynote.
Evidently, the […]

Some writing projects and Other Stuff That Has Gotten Out of Hand will require a brief hiatus. Accordingly, here’s a long overdue open thread (justafan, here’s your opening). A few items that have piled up for a while:

First up, charts! Specifically, two charts that help visualize how the music industry has changed.

Closer to home, David […]

That’s the approach southern gospel songwriter Belinda Smith is taking to a live recording she wants to make for her 40th birthday. You can see all the details here, but the gist of the set-up is that the artist sets a goal for funding the album ($10K in this case, with production assistance by sg […]

That’s what the writer at anartistsperspective.com is trying to do with this recently launched blog, though with some mighty big carve-outs in the blog’s permissible field of vision:
I don’t intend for this blog to be negative in any way. I prefer to keep my anonymity for obvious reasons, but if it were ever discovered, I […]

So a while back I think mentioned that I was a writing short piece on how to listen to southern gospel. It was for the alumni magazine at the university where I teach (and the how-to column is a standard feature that’s shopped around to various faculty). Anyway, the article is out in the current […]

Prospect Magazine catches up with the Freedom Cruise, an evangelical Republican political rally at sea, set to the sound of southern gospel:
The irony of a Christian gospel gathering on a steroidal pleasure boat is not lost on the Freedom Cruisers (for one thing, Southern Baptists don’t drink). While they sit in this darkened theatre, their […]