Shame on the programing team. Southern Gospel has been the rock of worship for so many. Praise and Worship is just another wave of the contemporary push all over this country. It started in California and has swept across this nation. So many churches have split their services... One being contemporary and the other they call traditional.And Nashville of all places falling to this wave. All I can say is, PLEASE RECONSIDER! You have the roots of Southern Gospel and now you fold and become the sidekick of the 'love of money'! At least try for a blend to please all types of music lovers.
10acgirl

As the 1st tenor for Debt Free Gospel Quartet and a Southern Gospel songwriter, of course, I am deeply disturbed by this move. But, not surprised, certainly. As our world grows closer to the coming of our Lord we will continue to see good gospel music being abandoned for 7/11 music. On behalf of Debt Free I want to thank you, our fans, for supporting this music we all love and for supporting our group as we travel in this ministry. We will keep putting out the music... you can count on it! And remember...never forget..."God isn't through giving new Southern Gospel Music yet!"

Deon,

Thanks you so much for your comments. Private enterprise is always the concern of the folk paying the bills. And where do we arrive at the position that what we like is the best for everyone. I come from the age group when shape notes was the music of the day and the singers stood around one mike and never thought of dancing from one side of the stage to the other. Does this make me right and them wrong?

This may not be the proper place for this question,but all of you seem to be southern gospel music lovers...Can anyone tell me of a good church in the Nashville area with a good southern gospel music program? Nothing wrong with traditional or CCM...SG is just what we are used to. Thanks for any input.

I don't live in your area, and this probably won't even matter to you in considering my opinion, but this is one of the Greatest dis-services you can do to all of your faithful friends and listeners over the past however many years you have broadcast Good Southern Gospel music. I can't get any good stations anywhere in or around Az. to play any Southern Gospel at all. I have talked with different station managers to propose even a Good compromised mix,
(If there is such a thing) with no luck or compromise at all on their part.
Their comment is that they had a meeting and voted on the radio content to be broadcast and that is what they are basing their decisions on.
My question is; Do a few DJ's and radio managers feel that their preference and values are of greater importance than the public opinion of thousands and thousands of faithful listeners and supporters of Gospel Music?
Don't get me wrong here; I do enjoy Good Praise & Worship music, and even God Himself Loves and Inhabits the Praises and True Worship of His People, but we have wondered far, far from that. There is no substitute for the message that has been played through the years and I grew up listening to in the "Good ole" Happy Goodman Family, The Cathedrals, The Hensons, The Blackwood Brothers, The Stamps, The Statesmen, The Imperials, The Florida Boys, The Dumplin Valley Boys, and the list could go on and on..... What about our current day Greats; I won't go through an extended list but one of our Greatest is Greater Vision. You will never come close to the message in their songs with this new "Fandangled" So called, "Praise and Worship music."
Please allow me to list a few of their titles: "For Just One More Soul", "No one cared for me like Jesus", "They should have cried Holy", "When I see the Cross", "We are so Blessed", "Hand in Hand with Jesus", I Sing the Mighty Power of God", Only through the Blood", "It is well with my soul", "The Blood hasn't ever changed", "The Spirit of Brokenness", "The Haven of
Rest", "More about Jesus", and I will end with one that kind of sums up this whole message that I have written. "I would rather be an old time Christian".
(Sorry, I have to add just one more) "I won't have to cross Jordan alone." The list could go on and on, endless I suppose. Try to Match or compare with any of these few that I have listed, and see if the tone of your (New and improved) station will even come close to sharing the same message, hope and encouragement that is much needed in our world today. And I didn't even mention up to this point which I feel is the most important of all; "What about the Spirit in which the songs are delivered?" You can feel the difference in the Spirit if you are discerning at all. The Presence of God Can't and Never will be substituted with anything that this modern day world wants to settle for and compromise with. No comparison. I hope you will reconsider your decisions that you have made for the sake of my Christian brothers and sisters there in your area that listen and have listened faithfully throughout the years. I haven't talked to anyone in your area and as far as I know, I don't even know anyone there. I just happened across your web site while I was looking for an obsolete version of Greater Visions CD's online and I signed onto your sight hoping to find help in locating it. My wifes car got broken into and all of the CD's were stolen.
Sincerely;
Phillip Kelley