Dave's Top Eight

1. Jerry Reed...Revisited by Darrell Toney (reviewed 6/07) (5 Stars)
2. Sounds Like Sunday by Janet Paschal (reviewed 5/07) (5 Stars)
3. True To The Call by Kingdom Heirs (reviewed 3/07) (4 1/2 Stars)
4. Revival by Gold City (reviewed 10/06) (4 1/2 Stars)
5. Get Away Jordan by Ernie Haase & Signature Sound (reviewed 2/07) (4 1/2 Stars)
6. Breakin' Chains by Three Bridges (reviewed 5/07) (4 1/2 Stars)
7. Big Sky by The Isaacs (reviewed 4/07)
8. Skywriting by Mercy's Well (reviewed 7/07)

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March 8, 2007

Blogger Summit Continued

Regarding my previous post on tomorrow's "Blogger Summit," Trent had this to say:
I think you bloggers are great, and I love to read your stuff. I think what you have to say has, in many instances, advanced & improved SG exposure and given us food for thought about our music and artists. However, I think you are being naive if you think some SG record execs are getting together with you just to chat you up & get your input on the direction of the industry. Does starting up a blog make you an expert on the industry? No. If I was interested in dentistry and started a blog about it, would the great journals on medicine be interested in my comments? No. Would dentists? Well, they might read it for curiosity sake, but they wouldn't really care what I thought about procedures for root canals. My guess is the record execs are going to very subtly & gently prod you guys into being a "positive" voice for the industry and to tone down any negativity. Just a hunch.
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To Trent and anyone else with similar thoughts, I would say that it's true that I'm naive about some issues. I am the sort of person who takes people at face value the first time. If they try to burn me, I adjust accordingly in my future dealings with them.

I'm way past the star-struck fan stage at this point in my life, though. I'm a huge fan of Southern Gospel, obviously, but it's more a love of the musical style now than the personalities who are, after all, just people.

Flattery can be just as offensive to me as rudeness, if I perceive that the person giving the flattery is just wanting something from me.

I agree that starting a blog doesn't make a person an expert. In fact, it's probably the quickest way to prove a person isn't an expert if in fact, they aren't. I'm reminded of the old adage, "It's better to keep your mouth shut and have everyone think you're a fool than open your mouth and prove it."

However, I would hasten to point out that SOME blogs are run by experts. These may be few and far between in Southern Gospel, but there are plenty of examples otherwise. Plus there's the fact that interactive dialog coupled with experience can, over time, make a fan into an expert on a particular subject. Granted, it may not be enough to turn a person into a dentist (at least not legally), but SG isn't exactly dental surgery. If it is, we have a lot of false practitioners.

As for my own credentials, I'd prefer that my writing pass or fail on its own merit. If that isn't enough, I do happen to have a couple of diplomas stuck in a drawer that say I earned undergraduate and graduate level degrees in Sacred Music and Music Theory respectively, for whatever they're worth.

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