Singing News to revamp airplay chart Yesterday, Doug Harrison at Averyfineline broke the story that Singing News is revamping its airplay chart. They are cutting their list of reporting stations from over 200 to 75, and making a point of apportioning slots on the reporting stations list to locales where there is a heavy Southern Gospel...

EnLighten to broadcast Fan Awards XM Radio’s enLighten 34 announced that it is going to broadcast an expanded version of the Singing News Fan Awards program, featuring additional commentary from Singing News editor Danny Jones and show producer Phil Brower. The three-hour program will be aired Monday, November 5th at 8 PM ET and will...

The Best Lineup that Never Was: Cathedrals I have hesitated at the thought of producing a list of the best Cathedrals lineup that never was. The Cathedrals had so many distinct and unique sounds over the years that it would be hard to pin down one lineup and say that these singers could reproduce any Cathedrals sound. This especially holds true at...

Open Thread #4: Borrowing Arrangements Since a friend suggested this, and since I’ll be out for the day at another seminar, I decided to start an open thread posing this question: Is it wrong for one group to borrow another group’s arrangement of a song without giving credit or paying royalties? Does it make any difference if the...

Paul Jackson live-blogs recording session Paul Jackson is live-blogging a Prophets recording session today here. I cannot recall any previous instance where a member of a professional group has live-blogged a recording session, so this is providing an interesting read for its novelty if for no other...

A Southern Gospel Parable Author unknown (I adapted this) A well-worn one dollar bill and a similarly distressed twenty dollar bill arrived at a Federal Reserve Bank to be retired. As they moved along a conveyor belt to be burned they struck up a conversation. The twenty dollar bill reminisced about its travel all over the...

Hear me on Janet Parshall’s Radio Show I’m scheduled to be interviewed on a nationally syndicated radio program this afternoon, Janet Parshall’s America. Some radio stations will carry it live at 3:30 EST; others will play it on a time...

Open Thread #3: Politics in Southern Gospel A recent thread on the Dove Brothers got sidetracked by a political discussion. This topic deserves its own thread. What role should politics play in Southern Gospel? Do the political inclinations of a musician influence your view of his...

Slightly OT: “This guy’s singin’ about God!” Some time ago, I came across the words to the old hymn “I Am Not Skilled to Understand,” and in the process of checking out the song, I came across a modern CCM rendition by Aaron Shust. If nothing else, at least his new melody has at least served the purpose of reawakening interest in the...

Light Posting Alert I’m going to be out at a conference Tuesday through Thursday next week, so I’ve saved a couple of posts for tomorrow and Monday that will hopefully keep you talking till I get back. I know, skipping three days is no big deal on most blogs, but since I’ve made a commitment to do daily posts,...