Charley Pride dies, and other music and worship links

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• Country superstar Charley Pride dies aged 86 -- “...he became a country superstar, winning three Grammys over a long career and, in 2000, becoming the first black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.”
• CT Pres Blog -- “The antidote to entertainment-driven worship (what some even call, ‘worshiptainment,’) is not to point the fingers at all the people we think are doing it wrong, but to make sure that we are doing it right.”
• Dolly Parton says hellfire and brimstone preaching impacted her music: ‘I grew up knowing Jesus loved me’ -- “Country singer Dolly Parton started her musical career in her grandfather’s church, where he served as a minister.”
• Hymn and Tune arranged by Karen E. Smith -- “I sought the Lord, and afterward I knew, He moved my soul to it.”
• From My Correspondence: Is Western Music White Supremacist? A Christian Response -- “In order to answer subtle challenges like the one in the YouTube video this whole exchange has been about, we have to have some kind of theological understanding of culture.”
• Hymns sifted in Satan’s sieve of suffering -- “We are self-centered enough to think that our personal plight is exceptional, when in reality it is not.”
• “I don’t feel like singing” -- “Congregation: you are the most important instrument in the room. Act like it.”
• Modern Hymn Writers Revive Lost Art with Surprising Success -- “Most songwriters in Nashville want to get their songs on the radio. Keith and Kristyn Getty hope their songs end up in dusty old hymnbooks.”
• Nancarrow’s Player Piano Music Was Ahead of Its Time -- “Nancarrow spent much of his musical career with a passion for composing highly complex piano music. In fact, it was said to be so complex, that humans could not perform it.”
• The Government Says We Can’t Sing! What Should We Do? (A Forum) -- “A pastor friend recently emailed me the following question: Do you know of anyone who has navigated state mandates against congregational singing indoors?”