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1. Jerry Reed...Revisited by Darrell Toney (reviewed 6/07) (5 Stars) Click title to purchase at CBD.com...click artist name to read Dave's Review. A CD will automatically fall out of the Top Eight after twelve months if no CD surpasses it before then.
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-----------May 26, 2007Honk If You Love Southern Gospel When I was younger, I never planned for my life to turn out this way. At 25, I was into artists like Petra, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, and Steven Curtis Chapman. 16 years later, it's Southern Gospel that defines much of my daily existence. Some days I get two or three CDs in the mail from artists seeking a review, so I'm constantly hearing new music as well as older standards (mostly on my iRiver portable player). At church, about 50% of the music sung by the Adult Choir, which I direct, is Southern Gospel. (The rest is choral standards and P&W.) I write articles for this blog at least every couple of days. I play keyboard for two part-time quartets. I wrote an encyclopedia on the subject in 2005, which I hope to expand in another year or two. The list goes on and on. Plus, I've had my license plate for so long, the stack of renewal stickers on it is an 1/8th of an inch thick or more. (I'm not stretching the truth when I say this.) What does a license plate have to do with Southern Gospel, you ask? Well, I'm tired of the old plate. I've been noticing these new NC plates on cars lately with red letters instead of blue. Plus, I wanted to do something fresh to promote this website, and a new license plate seemed like a good idea. I've just sprung for the vanity plate pictured above. I also just reserved the domain name in the photo, which will be pointed directly to this blog as soon as it goes into effect. Never fear, Musicscribe.com will continue to point to this website as well. I have it prepaid through 2014. (I would have used it, but NC license plates have an 8-character limit.)  So honk if you see me driving down the road in my goofy looking Kia Rondo (pictured at right). By the way, it DOESN'T get 29 highway MPG, no matter what they say. If you honk and the Southern Gospel music I'm listening to doesn't drown out your horn, I'll try my VERY best to remember to simply wave back at you (with all FIVE fingers completely extended)."Bass-ically Yours" has been asking lately, "What are you doing to promote Southern Gospel?" (paraphrased). Well, I'm driving a Kia Rondo which I bought in order to conveniently transport my keyboard to gigs, and it will soon sport a license plate directing fellow travelers to check out THIS blog. I'm going extra miles, literally, to spread the word. UPDATE (May 26, 2007, 10:28 PM): I may have spoken too soon about my little Kia's mileage. I've had the car about six weeks now, and the best MPG figure as of yesterday was 24.5 (even after one tank that was mostly burned on the interstate). However, today, when I filled up my tank, the pump click off at 11.6 gallons and I could only force in another half gallon for a total of 12.1. I got 331 miles out of that tank of gas, which means the MPG was over 27...YEA! That's more like it! Now I'm just hoping this fill-up wasn't some sort of fluke... UPDATE: (May 26, 2007, 11:34 PM): The new domain name is working now. UPDATE: (July 15, 2007, 2:15 PM): I'm sad to report the mileage reported in my first update above was indeed a fluke. The next fill-up was terrible. Evidently, the pump used previously had an over sensitive kickoff trigger. It probably would have held at least another gallon with a regular pump. On the next tank, I filled up after going 200 miles and it held 9.6 gallons, which is 20.8 MPG. The two tanks averaged out to 24.4 MPG, which was mostly highway miles on a car that's rated to get 29 on the highway. NOT TOO GOOD! Labels: Announcements posted by David Bruce Murray @ 12:07:00 AM
 
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