Ten Cathedrals Songs that Should be Brought Back
During their 35 years on the road, the Cathedrals probably recorded somewhere around 700 individual songs. Many of them are still being sung by groups today, but there are a number that aren’t but should be. Naturally, a number of Cathedrals alumni still on the road would do excellent renditions of their own songs. So [...]
Top 10 Creative Hymn Arrangements
When Southern Gospel artists record table projects, hymns are a natural choice. The renditions are frequently straight out of the hymnal, just switching the soprano part down an octave for the lead singer. While there’s nothing wrong with that, a hymn arrangement and a creative arrangement don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Here are a [...]
Standing Ovations
When I’m watching a video of a concert, sometimes in the sterile environment of viewing it on a 15-inch screen I don’t get quite as caught up as the audience. But no matter what I thought of a performance, if the audience is so moved as to offer a standing ovation, a chill still runs down [...]
An A Cappella Concert?
If you were to host a concert in a venue with great acoustics but where, for whatever reason, a sound system did not make sense, who would you book? And who might come? Gold City has been staging a completely acappella, unamplified version of One Scarred Hand (as here). While it’s quite likely that neither [...]
Dove Awards: Southern Gospel segment
YouTube user TheNelonsFan posted the seven-minute segment that the Dove Awards allotted for Southern Gospel: Don’t miss the cutaway at 2:51 to Troy Peach. Though just a second or two, his face tells the story as effectively as the lyric—the anticipation waiting for the payoff line, and then the sheer joy when Joseph hits the [...]
Lodebar
Over the last few years, I don’t know how many times I’ve listened to the Kingdom Heirs’ rendition of the Ricky Atkinson song “Feasting on the Table of the King.” It’s from their 1999 recording The Journey Home. Until recently, though, the first line had me stumped: A poor and lonely man dwelling in the [...]
Congratulations, Rusty
First, some background: SoGospelNews streamed their annual Ovation awards last night; it was the first time they had been streamed online. I was impressed with the overall quality of the show; many nominees and most of the winners were present. A complete list of winners is here; Karen Peck and New River, the Perrys, the [...]
Attending Signature Sound concert tonight
I’m planning to attend a Signature Sound concert tonight. It has been two or three years since I saw them live, outside of NQC. So while it might seem like an obvious choice to go, there was a complicating factor: I get off work at 5. The concert is at 7. I live roughly 1 [...]
God’s Will
Apropos of no one specific situation: Sometimes it can be God’s will for someone to sing with a group for only one or two years. Put another way, just because a singer left a group after one or two years, that doesn’t necessarily mean that (a) they were out of God’s will in leaving or [...]
Attending The Extra Mile
Southern Gospel aficiandos have gathered in different ways over the years. First there were singing schools (and an occasional church homecoming). Then there were concerts. The live Southern Gospel experience has largely revolved around the 90-minute-concert format for decades. But any concert promoter will tell you that it’s getting harder to make this model work. [...]
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