“I have never laid claim to be a Southern Gospel artist…”
Doyle Lawson shares his views on bluegrass and Southern Gospel in this South Bend Tribune article. Of particular interest are his comments on Southern Gospel:
“I have never laid claim to be a Southern gospel artist,” Lawson says. “I am a person that loves to sing and play gospel music. I think that is a testament to the fact that gospel music in itself is universal. As far as trying to convey a message in song, I don’t think there are any boundaries. I don’t think there should be any boundaries.”
Lawson says the decision to release an occasional secular album is simply a matter of “supply and demand.”
“I have both a secular market and a gospel market,” he says. ” I guess the only difference in the two is, by and large, the people that listen to gospel music probably only want to have those recordings in their possession. Whereas, the people that support the bluegrass world, most of them, they love the music, they love the gospel music, and they love the bluegrass. They will tend to buy both.”
