I bought the latest version of the new praise stuff... yycccch. We have done about three pieces out of it.... all lifted from old tunes!

The newer stuff-- well the newer southern gospel isn't bad, sometimes, but the rest... it's all presentation, like a very small and unsatisfying (and expensive) nouvelle cuisine meal! All garnish, no entree! Those melodies don't stick in my head no matter how often I hear them or sing along with them. Fluff... I hereby christen them Fluffernutters!

Our church thought we would be starting a contemporary praise service... and we tried... but week after week, that AIN'T what we do!

Next week, Gary Davis!

BTW, the Shaker hymnal we are studying at home at bedtime-- those Shakers had some REALLY UGLY melodies!

~S~