Thoughts on the Fan Awards Top 10 Let’s start with the big stuff. Triumphant Quartet walked away with the most nominations (seven). That’s an impressive accomplishment, but they are less likely to ace the top 5 ballot because two of their nominations (for Eric Bennett and David Sutton) are in the highly competitive Male Singer...

Singing News announces Top 10 Nominees In the same email blast that announced their changes to the fan awards, Singing News announced the top 10 nominees for this year. This, of course, does not include the eventual nominees in the reinstated tenor, lead, baritone, and bass parts. 2007 Singing News Top 10 Fan Award Nominees Female Bean, Peg...

Singing News reverses Fan Awards Changes I in an email blast sent out to Singing News subscribers, Editor-in-Chief Jerry Kirksey announced that Singing News is reinstating six categories in the Fan Awards: Tenor, Lead, Baritone, Bass, Alto, and Soprano. Kirksey said that he had overlooked “a VERY IMPORTANT element of the Fan Awards...

Inspirations, revisited Doug Harrison over at Averyfineline noticed my recent Inspirations post and responded to it with a post of his own. Now I suspect that Doug has more raw genius than all the other Southern Gospel bloggers put together, but he missed my point just the same. My point about the Inspirations’ song selection...