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 9, 2007

Blogger Summit Report

I just got home a short while ago from the "Blogger Summit."

In attendance were Mickey Gamble, Chris White, Scott Wagner (sp?), and Jim Stover of Crossroads; Wayne Haun and Kevin Ward of Vine Records; bloggers Doug Harrison, Daniel Britt, and me. Daniel Mount participated by phone as well.

Mount has posted a running commentary of our discussion on the Singing News forum. Go ahead and read that first, if you want, because I'm not going to rehash what he's already posted.

In a nutshell, the agenda for the day presented by Crossroads was:
1. Let's talk generally about various aspects of the industry.
2. Here's what we do in these various areas.
3. Do you have any questions?
4. What would you do if you were in our shoes?"

Topics included the state of radio, television, concert promotion, product distribution, finances, declining sales trends, marketing techniques, the Singing News chart and Fan Awards, SG choral music, record production (particularly song selection), and artists. A few acronyms were thrown around...BMI, NARAS, AGM, etc.

For those of you worried about us being bribed, I guess I should disclose that we all got a free DVD and Crossroads picked up the tab for lunch. No cash...oh well...I guess I'll just have to keep on being honest with my opinions rather than becoming a devious promotional mouthpiece for the SG recording industry. :o)

Seriously, at the end of the day, I was glad to have the opportunity to meet several people I hadn't had the chance to meet previously. In the process, I learned some details about the recording industry that will help me be a more accurate blogger in the future.

Additionally, I had the opportunity to make a couple of face-to-face suggestions to the Crossroad execs about embracing digital downloads (which they appear to already have in the works) and being pro-active in improving inferior SG radio (which they aren't really doing at the moment, but have tried in the past with only marginal success). I was also able to lend some perspective to the discussion from my previous experience working in Christian retail.

What was the result of today's meeting? We met, we talked, we ate, we talked some more. Only time will tell if anything fruitful actually took place today, but that wasn't really the point. The point was to give bloggers an opportunity to share suggestions with Crossroads while they in turn gave us a glimpse "behind the curtain" of the Southern Gospel industry.

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