Sony’s Thoughts: God Created Us For Fellowship

Last night, as I was putting away laundry, a song popped into my head which happens often. What was surprising, though, was that the song was by TobyMac who used to be with DC Talk. I am not into rap, and I don’t think I’ve heard the song in a while but the line that jumped out at me was “I...

At The Extra Mile

I’m at The Extra Mile event today. Unless I can find an Internet connection, posting may be light. Update (7:54 AM): I’m at the hotel overlooking the convention center. Still not sure what level of connection I’ll have, or how much I’ll have the chance to post throughout the day. But...

DVD Review: The Best of the Jubilee Years (Dixie Echoes)

In 1997, Bill Gaither released the Dixie Echoes’ entry in the Best of the Jubilee Years series. This was recently re-issued on DVD. As the title suggests, the footage is culled from the Dixie Echoes’ numerous appearances on the Gospel Singing Jubilee TV series. Some of the footage is in (faded)...

Guess the new Piano Player

The Old Paths seems to come up with some of the most creative ideas, and this is another winner. They are is hiring a piano player. But rather than just announcing him, they decided to run a contest. The first ten people to guess correctly will get a free download of their new CD. Check it out...

Singing News Fan Awards nominees announced

Singing News posted their top 10 Fan Awards nominees here. As it frequently is year to year, there are few surprises. A couple of things I noted: David Phelps and Michael English picked up nominations for tenor and lead, respectively. Despite what some anticipated, it looks like Southern Gospel’s more...

Guest Post: Concert Review of Gold City and the Booth Brothers

Tyler H. recently posted a concert review of Gold City and the booth Brothers on SouthernGospelForums.com. The review was so interesting that I asked his permission to reprint it. I had the privilege of attending an amazing concert in Lancaster, PA with Gold City and the Booth Brothers on March 13th. I was...

Question of the Week: Kenna Turner West

For this week’s question of the week, I caught up with songwriter Kenna Turner West, co-author of Lauren Talley’s new radio single “The Extra Mile.” I did a feature interview with her here, but wanted to catch up about the new song. (You can play the song in the sidebar on...

CD Review: Songs From the Old Path Vol. 3 (Old Paths)

Since the last two projects I’ve reviewed from the Old Paths—Live in Pigeon Forge (October 2008, here) and Today (April 2008, here)—they have added and then lost a live band, and lost their bass singer. Though they remained on the road constantly, they took a year or longer off from recording to...

Announcing a Photo Gallery

There have been one or two previous photo galleries on this site. They were fairly unwieldy, though, and didn’t survive server moves. This afternoon, I had some spare time, so I installed another photo gallery, this one built right into Wordpress. View it here, or by going to the top right menu bar and...

Sony’s Thoughts: Things Could Be Worse

Last night, I read the account in Homecoming magazine about the typhoon in the Philippines which created a mudslide and collapsed a house. The survivors were rushed to local hospitals except for an 18-year-old young man who was left to remove the rubble and find that his mother, his baby brother, his two...