An Interview with Doug Anderson, Ryan Seaton, and Tim Duncan In about three weeks, the Gaither Vocal Band and Ernie Haase & Signature Sound will be releasing a joint CD/DVD release, Together. Since I interviewed Ernie Haase the last time Signature Sound released a project, I took a recent chance to interview the other three members of Signature Sound, baritone...

Feature Articles page added I just added a page listing all the feature articles Southern Gospel Blog has run. It’s in the sidebar under “Contents.” Looking back, it amazes me to see how many people I’ve had the chance to interview in the past year–the Ball Brothers, Tracy Crouch, Keith Plott, Matt Felts,...

George Younce Memorial Highway This is actually yesterday’s post. For some reason, I forgot to put it up; my apologies to those who looked for my daily post yesterday. North Carolina officials recently renamed the 1.2 mile stretch of Yadkin River Road that connects N.C. 268 and U.S. 321 as the “George W. Younce Memorial...

The Best Lineup that Never Was: Kingdom Heirs I continue this weekly series with the best Kingdom Heirs lineup that never was: Tenor: Brian Free Lead: Ryan Seaton Baritone: Melton Campbell Bass: Christian Davis Free’s style is closely akin to Billy Hodges, although I’ve probably reversed the order I should have said that (and compared Hodges...

Artists Staffing NQC Booths There’s an interesting thread on the Singing News forums about artists not being at their booths at the National Quartet Convention. jchaz and dbmurray have some worthwhile suggestions: “I think ALL the groups should plan to (at least once a night) have a set time when they could all be at their...

Greater Vision and non-Christians listening to Southern Gospel? One of the CDs I picked up at NQC was Gerald Wolfe’s Keys to Quiet Places piano solo CD, primarily since I wanted the Greater Vision titles that formed the rest of the package deal. At any rate, I found the disclaimer to have an interesting presupposition: © 2006 Greater Vision Music Ministries, Inc.,...

Welcome a new blogger Welcome Brandon and Lisa Coomer to the Southern Gospel blogosphere; their new blog, Coomer Cove, just launched. I understand that the blog will not solely be about Southern Gospel, but stop by and welcome them...

Dan Keeton to join Florida Boys Dan Keeton confirmed that he would be joining the New Florida Boys in this Singing News forums post. His announcement stated: I am leaving DMB, but not real soon. The plan was to leave the first of October, but the new man will not be here yet. So, I will be here till he is ready and I will be there in...

NQC 2007: Another follow-up suggestion In this post a few days ago, I made a few follow-up suggestions on how next year’s NQC could be improved. Upon further reflection, I think one suggestion went a little too far. I think dropping the vendors’ hall on Saturday would have more bad side effects than good ones, including spurring some...

The Best Lineup that Never Was: Inspirations Last week, I premiered my series on “the best lineup that never was,” picking singers who never sang with a group who nonetheless could carry on that group’s sound. Last week’s feature was on the Kingsmen; this week, we turn to the Inspirations. Tenor: Dallas Rogers Lead: Dean...