An Interview with Dianne Wilkinson
A formatted version of this story (with photos) is here: www.southerngospelblog.com/features/200912.pdf. I had made plans to interview Dianne Wilkinson on Tuesday night of this year’s National Quartet Convention. So we would have plenty of time, we arranged to meet at the Greater Vision booth about an hour before the last group walked off the mainstage for the night. A few minutes b

Coming tomorrow morning . . .
Coming tomorrow morning: The interview that got Dianne Wilkinson, her friend Gail, and me locked into the National Quartet Convention parking lot. Be watching!

GoldCityTribute.com launched
Brandon Coomer has launched a tribute website on Gold City, http://www.goldcitytribute.com/. It looks like an incredibly useful site; more info about the launch is at his blog, here.

CD Review: Just Stand (Legacy Five)
Over their first ten years on the road, Legacy Five has produced several landmark recordings. Their debut, Strong in the Strength, set a high standard that only one or two other CDs in the following decade—namely, London and Live in Music City—would approach. Just Stand redefines just how magnificent a Legacy Five project can be. It raises the bar in such a literal way that if any of the three aforementioned projects were follow-ups to this release, they would be 4.5 star recordings. It’s that good. It’s that good for two simple reasons—song selection and the master’s touch of Lari Goss. Let’s start wi

Sony’s Thoughts: Post-Thanksgiving Admonition
Across the country, most of the Thanksgiving parties are over and life begins to get back to normal. Families return to their homes, people return to work, children resume their studies and, for housewives, they continue their menial tasks in the quietness of their home. For some, there is often a letdown when days of activity begin to subside. Maybe a loneliness creeps in or you have time to think about the one person who was not at your gathering this year for the first time. Let me encourage you to take this time to draw near to Jesus, the One who is still with you though others may have left. In the midst of the hustle and bustle, even though I’m sure most of us took tim