Sony’s Thoughts: Taking Isaac Up the Mountain We have some friends who were going through a difficult trial last year. They were suspecting the mom in the family had cancer, and her husband and children didn’t feel ready to part with her. She’s still relatively young, and we weren’t sure what God was going to do but, around that time,...

News Roundup There have been enough stories that I can’t go without mentioning that I may as well put them all into one post. Every Day Driven disbanded late last week. Members Channing Eleton, Paul Lancaster, and Buddy & Keri Mullins are going their own separate ways. At least it appears to be on good terms....

Gallery Updates: Chuck Wagon Gang SouthernGospelBlog.com Gallery contributor Dinana has posted several photos from a recent Chuck Wagon Gang concert she attended. The photos can be viewed here. She has also posted four videos of sound clips on YouTube here. We also have photos that reader Jamie took at a recent Tulsa, OK concert, featuring...

Sony’s Thoughts: A Heart for the Lost “So that I may snatch from the jaws of hell someone not so unlike myself.” I first heard these words about 15 years ago in a song the Bishops sang called “More Than My Voice.” Yet that phrase still catches my ears each time I hear it. I don’t know why but at times I tend to look...

CD Review: “Live” (Spoken 4) A listen through Spoken 4’s most recent studio project (That’s My Boy, reviewed here) does not really prepare the listener for the group’s live sound. While their studio project used fully orchestrated soundtracks, the only accompaniment the group used in this live project is live piano....

CD Review: “That’s My Boy” (Spoken 4) Spoken 4 Quartet, a group based in Branson, Missouri, is one of the top 10 nominees for Horizon Group of the Year. Their vocal lineup is Thomas Griffin (tenor), Jon Charles Taggart (lead), Jeremy Wilkerson (baritone), and Cecil Stringer (bass). Former Blackwood Brothers and Oak Ridge Boys pianist Tommy...

Dove Awards Winners announced The winners of the 39th Annual Dove Awards were announced earlier this week. This list has most of the winners (though it omits the winner in the Southern Gospel Album of the Year category). Gerald Wolfe did not win the overall Male Vocalist of the Year award, and Signature Sound did not win the overall...

An Interview with Keith Waggoner On a recent trip to Boise, Idaho, I had the chance to interview Keith Waggoner. He sings tenor for Liberty Quartet, a full-time Southern Gospel Quartet based in Boise. What was scheduled to be a half-hour interview ended up being an hour-long conversation. Here’s the...

Gallery Update: Gold City Reader Matt Paasch went to a Gold City concert last weekend, and has posted an extensive photo gallery: http://www.southerngospelblog.com/gallery/?level=album&id=16. He also picked up several interesting tidbits of news about Gold City’s upcoming projects. Their next project, Moment of Truth, is...

Quote of the Day It seems my post “Could a traditional label make it?” sparked quite a discussion. My favorite comment so far: In answer to the viewpoint that people want to hear modern / progressive Southern Gospel, reader SV writes: I wish that SG were bigger than it is, and I do my best to promote it, but in...