Are Southern Gospel Music fans “Gluttons For Punishment”?
The thing I fear is that our unwillingness to update our music, to accept new ideas, and to nurture our newcomers will turn the Gospel Music fans into “Gluttons for Punishment”. Our fans are loyal. Is that any reason to continue to pummel them with screaming tenors and growling basses. I listened to some of the groups at this years NQC, and frankly I find it amazing that anyone would want to sit through five hours of that kind of singing. Group after group, after group, all singing the same way, the same style, and the same endings. Every so often, but not often enough, a refreshing change would appear, like an oasis in the desert, and the fans loved it! IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE I disagree with other writers and industry leaders who keep trying to take us back to the fifties and sixties, even though I am a product of that era. The Statesmen, The Blackwoods, The Goodmans, The Speer Family, The LeFevres, The Harvesters, The Prophets, The Rebels, The Couriers,and others, were my idols, the
