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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August 16, 2007

Why blog? (Three years and counting)

The first Musicscribe blog post was written nearly three years ago in late 2004. The subject title..."Why Blog?"

In 2005, I attempted to narrow the focus of the blog, avoiding current news and personal opinion articles. What followed was a period of CD reviews and history articles. The history stuff ultimately became an entirely separate website, SGHistory.com, which is growing by leaps and bounds every week.

Returning to the original question three years later, I'd say I still blog for the same reasons I gave then. I can probably put a more direct point on it, though. I'll give the short version first, and then the expanded version will follow.

In a nutshell, I blog to pass along useful information about Southern Gospel to my readers.

Granted, I've gone back to offering more of my personal observations now that the history articles have another home. Sometimes, I'll address a standard news story as well, but I'm more likely to write about my own experiences.

If you factor out everything this blog isn't, whatever remains, however illogical, must define what it is. (Apologies to Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle.)

The Musicscribe blog isn't, and has never been:
1. a Southern Gospel news site (at least not on a fundamental level...see below for one type of exception).
2. a place I try to get out my "feelings," so I can put them behind me and get on with my life.
3. a diary where I share the mundane or exciting (depending on your perspective) events of my day.
4. a game to try to make famous people look silly. (I try to reserve comment until they look silly on their own.)
5. a duty. I do make a conscious effort to post with enough frequency that people will check back from time to time, but I see no point in hammering out a slew of posts just to fill space when I really have nothing to say.

Here one I almost included on the "isn't" list before I realized I honestly couldn't and quite frankly, shouldn't.
1. an attempt to impress my readers that I'm fairly intelligent. (That's not vanity speaking. I well aware that I'm no Solomon, but I can't honestly say I want people to think I'm stupid, now can I?)

The Musicscribe blog is:
1. an attempt to positively influence the Southern Gospel industry. I try to affirm as often as I chide...I really do try.
2. a resource readers can use to inform themselves before purchasing specific Southern Gospel CDs (even if they disagree with my conclusion).
3. a collection of fun and cool items I've seen. (By "cool," I do NOT mean chain emails.)
4. an occasional news story that I research and write because I happen to be curious.
5. a place to report on concert events I attend.
6. a place to inform would-be artists on the basics of the music business.
7. a great way for me to get a steady supply of free music. (What can I say? That's probably the main perk to having this site.)


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