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I must say, it’s gratifying – in a bittersweet kinda way – to see people finally starting to say some of the same things about the sad state of mainstream media in southern gospel that I’ve been saying for years now (in fact, one of the many ancillary but not unimportant reasons I started this […]
That didn’t take long. A website devoted solely to pushing back against whining about the Singing News’s recent changes to the charting system. Gospel Music Coalition aims to “ensure every artist and songwriter gets an equal opportunity in airplay and charting privileges.” There are a lot of assumptions embedded in there that strike me as […]
A mountain out of a molehill? So says David Bruce Murray himself of my comments on the SN editing his review to soften his take on the McKameys latest project (and he suggests I’m an opportunistic flip-flopper to boot).
Doug,
As I recall, you were a lot more easy going than me a couple of […]
No, you haven’t gone crazy. At least not if you assume you’d have to be insane to see Avery’s byline in the Singing News. I indeed have a short piece on blogging and gospel music in the March issue (thanks to all of you who have emailed to comment on the article). It’s a modest […]
A regular reader (and quartet owner) writes:
Avery,
I find myself agreeing with you far more than I disagree, but on the subject of Roy Pauley. I must fervently disagree. I do not believe that slamming Roy for his personally held beliefs is quite fair, especially when you have likely never met […]
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And the January 07 issue stands head and neck above what’s come before it. The centerpiece is the Tori Taff cover story on EHSSQ. I would have preferred less fixation on profiling EH. He’s such a well-known figure by now that Taff struggles to say anything new about him and so must resort […]
Daniel Mount does some nice work reporting out a bit of gossip on the sogospelnews message boards about changes to the SN Fan Awards. He’s got Salem big-wig Jim Cumbee on the record explaining the major changes, including the elimination of gender segregated awards for mixed vs male quartet as well as awards for part […]
One of the best things the SN does that no one - including me, until now - gives them enough credit for is putting together the Just Call It Southern compilation discs for magazine subscribers. I purposely wait to renew my subscription at NQC every year just to get the cds. Yeah, the songs are […]
I’ve held off saying anything the new feature in the SN that David Bruce Murray aptly described as “Roy Pauley vs. the World,” hoping that it would return this month and I could get a better sense of how it will play out. Alas, that was not to be. So I’ll have to go on […]
1. From Googler and avfl reader KD:
Have you tried [Googling] the trend for Singing News? Very sharp spike right about the time they announced their new logo. Then, a sharp decline […]
In this latest post, Danny Jones writes:
With Southern Gospel music going through a mild case of changes right now (Gold City, Palmetto State Quartet), […]
Danny Jones wondered the other day, “are we over-analyzing Southern Gospel? By that I mean, are we trying too much time trying fix something that might not be […]
This latest issue of the SN unveils the new logo and cover design (hey I just thought of this: why not add an archive of covers to the website?). Nice. A good […]
Perhaps the biggest news whilst I was gone was the SN’s renewed promise/threat to throw up a subscribers-only barrier in front of their web content (the NYT just announced its own subscription model recently … so who says the SN isn’t with it?). I think sgmblog
gets it mostly right here, but for the sake of […]
If you haven’t been following Jerry Kirksey’s photo posts lately, you really should. For once, it’s like the SN read my mind. Anyway, Danny Jones explains […]
As I threatened slash promised a few days ago that I would do, I want to elaborate fairly briefly (for me, at least, about this particular subject, anyway) on some of the alternatives […]
SGMblog has the scoop on the Triumphity website issue. And for the record, I prefer Integriphant better than Triumphity too, but since the name change, I figure it’s […]
As I reported a while back, Heirline’s song “You’ll Never Run Out of Blood” went No. 1 in the May SN chart, which (by the strange logic of the SN […]
The April 2005* SN arrived yesterday, so here we go:
What a bunch of misinformed nonsense from Andrew Ishee, in his anti-tax screed on p16. […]
My spies come through once again (ok, so it’s not so much spying as … you know, remembering things … but still). The top 10 nominations for SN Fan Awards song of the year (as recently unreported […]
