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Leebob claims the complaints about EHSSQ are purely subjective:

The arguments against EHSS are personal tastes for the most part. I have not seen any argument against EHSS that are substantive. For the most part they have been made by people from a distance. When the attacks on their style didn’t work then the […]

From the Ask Avery file, Edie wants to know:

Hey Mr Editor-guy,
I’m wondering why you think there are all these Ernie-haters out there? Is it jealousy? I mean, Ernie is just as nice and just as normal (which means he has his faults) as anybody else out there.

On the one […]

So it seems that EHSSQ’s “Get Away Jordan” will go No. 1 in the next SN chart. I’ve been getting lots of email about it and, as you might have already seen, several comments. What I find interesting about all these comments is that no one assumes the No. 1 position actually reflects the popularity […]

Via Martin Roth comes a story from the Scott County (Mississippi) Times about Bobby and Hilda Woods and their, uhm, considerable devotion to Ernie Haase and Signature Sound:

The Woods started their “tour” following Signature Sound [around the country] in 2003 and have not missed a concert since. The Woods have attended over 50 […]

So this kind of thing makes for great press release fodder … “Ernie Haase’s group is the first of its kind to use this newest form of video delivery technology.” And so on. But what’s the real payoff here? As far as I can tell, the EHSSQ media channel is a slickly designed email harvesting […]

1) An anecdotal report from a recent EHSSQ concert. These kinds of isolated pieces of testimony are interpretatively meaningless, of course. I offer it mostly as a way of paying my respects to the old adage that judges a performance by how well it plays in Peoria.
Update: In the interest of fairness, it’s probably worth […]

Maybe this video clip is already making the rounds (I haven’t looked to see) and is old news by now. But still … what thuh…?
I mean, I know Wilburn and Ladd are trying to be funny and “just joshin with Ole Ernie … we love i’m.” But don’t you think some of the other guys […]

Reliable sources confirm that EHSSQ moved roughly 25,000 pieces of product (split about evenly between cd and dvd) in the debut week of Get Away Jordan. Of that, about 17,000 of the units shipped were part of “non-traditional” sales – that is, not part of the standard retail transaction in which one person purchases one […]

Daniel Mount says EHSSQ will top a few charts that really matter soon with sales of their new release, Get Away Jordan. Good for them. Mount notes that the cd/DVD is “catching some eyes,” which I imagine was just a figure of speech, but it’s apt in this case, perhaps more than he knows. It’d […]

In re my comment about EHSSSQ soliciting “videos of kids who imitate his group’s exuberant performance moves on stage.” No matter who came up with the idea, I […]

Ernie Haase is soliciting videos of kids who imitate his group’s exuberant performance moves on stage. The schmaltz factor here is through the roof on this one, but […]

A few of you have written to comment on the concert last month billed by promoter Alvin Currington as “Our Cathedral Years.” Conspicuously absent from the ads and stage, Ernie Haase (and/or Kirk Talley, and/or […]

Ernie Haase & Signature Sound
Ernie Haase & Signature Sound
Gaither Music Group
2005
This will never do.
And to know why I say that, one need only listen to the way EHSSQ sings the last word of the song “Godspeed.” The word is “goodbye,” and the sound of it perfectly captures the exquisite impersonality of this self-titled project, the […]

Ok, so before all you SSQ fans start plundering me with vicious emails, hear me out. Listening to Homecoming Radio last week and the brief SSQ stand that was included (as well […]

Thanks to alert reader RF for noticing this tidbit from the EHSSQ message board. Ernie Haase: “Things are great but busy. We will be in the studio every Tues and Wed of Feb. This […]

An interesting exchange over at EHSSQ on the Ask Ernie thread about why EH doesn’t answer all the questions people ask (though of course the one about EH […]

A note from reader FK, who attended an SSQ concert a bit ago and whose opinion I deeply respect:
What a refreshing concert!! I haven’t been so entertained in a very long time. […]

The recent resurrection of the Kingsmen name reminds me that the era of Great Quartet Names is over. There will only ever be one Cathedral Quartet, one Masters V, one Statesmen and, after Ray Reese is gone, only one Kingsmen, I suspect. Even so, I hope that doesn’t mean some of the recent new names […]