Something I’ve noticed is that the top trios tend to have a greater personnel stability than the top quartets. I don’t really know why. I guess it’s just the case that the more people you add into the mix, the more likely you will find two who will rub one another wrong.
Several things got me thinking about this, one of which was the recent meltdown (to borrow averyfineline’s term) of CCM trio Second Mile. Of course, this typically wouldn’t be Southern Gospel news, but Donny Henderson’s years with Poet Voices and Channing Eleton’s years with Gold City have given the group a somewhat peripheral “where are they now?” interest to their Southern Gospel fans. At any rate, Eleton and Buddy Mullins both left the group, Eleton taking the bus with him, and Henderson is considering re-starting from scratch.
But Second Mile is a CCM trio, not a Southern Gospel trio, and even if it was a Southern Gospel trio, it would be the exception. (Continue Reading >>>)