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Reader Jim identifies some song types that there might yet be room for in the song mix of your garden variety sg album:
Most SG artists feel they have to include two blood songs, one every knee shall bow song, a couple of heaven songs and a slap in the face song to other religions, then a patriotic […]
Over at southerngospelblog there’s a discussion afoot based on a J.D. Sumner quote about songwriting to the effect that “songwriters only have so many songs in them, and then they run out and could / should quit writing.” Daniel rebuts the parts of this claim he disagrees with and you can judge for yourself the […]
Via David Bruce Murray, it looks like Chris Allman, of original Greater Vision fame (and more lately of this transfixing clip), has launched an ala carte co-writing and publishing business called, Write With Me.
DBM runs down the particulars of the service and raises some good questions about who owns what publishing rights in this sort […]
Quote of the day, from Casual Observer:
If you’ve ever read a press release for a new album, you know that the challenge is to distinguish the project from all the others vying for shelf space at the local Christian bookstore. They do this by presenting a list of “bullet points” - a string of trivia […]
Over at southerngospelblog recently, Daniel Mount ran a couple posts about singer/songwriters in gospel music. And though we’ve been down this road before, Mount’s posts got me thinking about the singer/songwriter bias in gospel music, namely: what’s behind the preference for songs written and performed by the same person?
Mount argues it has to with the […]
This story in the New York Times about country singer John Rich cutting a populist protest tune about the greedy gall of our banking overlords helping wreck the economy and then taking performance bonuses reminds me of something I’ve been meaning to ask: is there much of a history in gospel music of writing songs […]
So a radio station has now pulled Gaither Vocal Band’s “Jesus and John Wayne” from the air after listeners complained about the song’s allegedly bad theology. What rubbish.
Regular readers will know that I don’t like the song one bit, but reading this kind of nonsense nearly roused me into a fit of defensive pique, just […]
From a recent NYT profile of Clint Eastwood:
Some directors are known as an actor’s best friend. Mr. Eastwood may be the writer’s. “He didn’t change a word,” Mr. Schenk said. “That never happens.”
Mr. Eastwood said he learned his lesson after making extensive revisions on the script for “Unforgiven,” then calling up the writer, David Peoples, […]
Are jingles and advertising ditties the new driving force of creativity in music? So says David Singer (hat tip, M):
This year’s other giant smash has to be “Free Credit Report Dot Com,” with multiple versions clogging the airwaves. The real toe-tapper is the seven-note phrase that punctuates their radio commercials, its placid female harmonies beckoning […]
Some thoughts on Friday afternoon’s Celebration of Phil Cross’s Ego Phil Cross’s Songs of a Lifetime songwriters showcase, in no particular order.
The sound sucked. Mikes weren’t on for most of the singers and speakers for the first few minutes, including Cross’s. Songs had to be restarted including the first one, the Booth’s unremarkable “Welcome […]
