Comments on: 2007: Stories of the Year

By: Ed Butler

Ed Butler — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:40:42 +0000

Good list – and certainly Roger Bennett’s death is the lead story – and saddest.

Regarding #4 – my gut feeling is that MMQ will not be heard from again. Garry Jones deserves a good run – but it is very tough starting from scratch – as Dan Keaton will certainly find out.

Regarding PSQ – I am very saddened. I feel their most recent recording was the best ever. It is a “really good” SG recording. I am anxious to hear the new PSQ.

JEB

By: Donna

Donna — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:34:10 +0000

I agree with the order you have put the stories in. It will be interesting to see what happens to PSQ and MMQ.

I also think that one of the reasons the Crabb Family “retirement” was less of a story this year was because the individuals had pretty much transitioned to other ministries before the final concert took place.

By: Daniel J. Mount

Daniel J. Mount — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:01:54 +0000

Despite how far they’d moved from traditional Southern Gospel, I would still have included them in my top 5 if the announcement and the actual final concert had happened in the same year.

But since the announcement–in my opinion, the bigger story–happened last year, that diluted the impact of the story.

You might check how much blog / forums fan discussion there was over their final concert. Perhaps count how many websites even mentioned it.

Almost all the discussion happened last year, over the announcement.

By: Matt Baker

Matt Baker — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:07:50 +0000

I think the retirement of the Crabb Family was one of the top stories also. Although they were riding a very fine line the last few years in the Southern Gospel world, they still produced #1 after #1 .