Last Sunday we had some very high winds in Nashville an my Direct TV dish was blown over interrupting my television service until the service technicians could get out to reset my dish. It took four days, but now I have television so things are better. Since I had all this "down" time, I thought I would use it to see what all is on YouTube concerning Southern Gospel Music. What I saw was not a pretty picture. I went to YouTube and searched for Southern Gospel Music and to my dismay I found very little quality. What's disturbing about this is that I know that Dean Adkins and Harold Timmons have put some very good, quality videos on this site for us to enjoy. Unfortunately after ten pages of searching I found very little quality music. Now don't get me wrong, I think that YouTube could be a powerful tool for letting the rest of the world know what really good Southern Gospel is like, but they need to hear quality singing and playing.
What I found was maybe half a page of decent music out of the ten I looked at. This is not what we want people who are not familiar with SGM to see. Aside from the music and singing that isn't very good, the other thing showing up was a ton of interviews from last years NQC. Now I think that Rob Patz does a phenomenal job with what he does on the radio, but I don't really want to see fifty interviews when I'm trying to find music to listen to. The interviews we done really good, but that's just not what I want to see when I'm searching for SG on YouTube.
After venting here and stating what I don't like, I have to admit that I don't have a clue on how to fix it. All I know is that the picture people are getting who aren't familiar with SGM is not a pretty one on YouTube.
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Written: 12/16/2008
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It is what it is,my friend.:(
The quality is naturally going to suffer when all the content is coming from unpaid volunteers. If the artists and/or their labels would add quality videos to YouTube, as a scant FEW have done (Gaither's preview of the upcoming GVB reunion, etc.), you'd see an overall improvement.
“Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”—-Mark Twain
David, you are so right. The less we are willing to share our music, the greater chance that it will NOT grow. Instead of sharing, we hold on to it as tightly as we can, for fear that someone might not make money at what they're doing. We've got to plant some seeds to see it grow.
Deon Unthank
SoGospelNews.com
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If you type in Southern Gospel music, you won't find anything, try typing in a quartet name or solo singers name, you will get alot more results.
Be the kind of Christian that when your feet hit the floor each morning, the devils says “Oh No, he’s up!!”
Deon,
Thanks for the kudos for my channel. I try to post videos that are of good quality. I have posted a few that aren't up to that standard but that is because they are rare and I think the ability to view them outweighs the quality issues.
Anyway stop by again -- my channel is adkinsda
Dean
This is why I started Southern Gospel Tube. I am trying to obtain permission (on a group by group basis) to upload their videos to SouthernGospelTube.com Right now I have about 800 videos probably 500 or more are just music.
Owner and Founder of Southern Gospel Tube - Family Friendly Video Site
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