Gospel Music

TBGB Pick of the Week: September 3, 2007

2014-07-21T21:59:06-05:00September 4th, 2007|

“He’s Done Enough”Beverly CrawfordFrom the JDI album Live from Los Angeles (2007)My stars, can Beverly Crawford sing!On the down-home bluesy “He’s Done Enough,” the Grammy-nominated Crawford tells her audience, “We’re going home, y’all,” and with a great gospel chuckle, she delivers us there.“If He doesn’t do anything else, He’s already [...]

TBGB Pick of the Week: August 27, 2007

2014-07-21T21:59:06-05:00August 28th, 2007|

“Listen”Trin-i-tee 5:7From the CD T57, released September 18, 2007Spirit Rising Music 2007http://www.trin-i-tee57.com/“Listen Here!”If Trin-i-tee 5:7’s opening exhortation doesn’t hook you, the bumping and weaving uber-cool beat – best described as bachelor pad gets hip-hop makeover – will most certainly do the trick.The popular and glamourous female gospel group (Chanelle Haynes, [...]

CD Single Review…. Zie’l

2014-07-21T21:59:06-05:00August 25th, 2007|

"Open Your Mouth (Give Him a Shout)"Zie'lfrom Genesis LIVE!Light/Gospel Warehouse 2007www.light-street.com THIS is the single from Zie'l I've been waiting for! The female group does just what the title says, winding their modern harmonies around a good, solid church song with a relentless backbeat underscored by hand-clapping. The single was [...]

CD Single Review: Darius Twyman

2014-07-21T21:59:06-05:00August 24th, 2007|

“Holy”Darius Twymanfrom his forthcoming project With Just One WordCharacter Music 2007www.myspace.com/DariusTwymanMusicGrowing up Catholic, I used to hate “Holy Holy Holy” because it was sung like a funeral dirge, not at all like the pop music I enjoyed on 1970s radio. Thanks to the gospel community embracing this hymn, we can [...]

TBGB Pick of the Week: August 21, 2007

2014-07-21T21:59:06-05:00August 22nd, 2007|

“I Can Go to God in Prayer”Ami RushesFrom the forthcoming album Lifting (ARM 1004)http://www.amirushes.com/For her first CD Covering, Southern California Community Choir alumna Ami Rushes secured the production skills of Kurt Carr, dug into her file of traditional gospel favorites, and literally “covered” them. She continues to bring classic back [...]

Cleveland Singers, Caravans Thrill at GMWA in Orlando, FL

2014-07-21T21:59:06-05:00August 19th, 2007|

Members of two generations of Cleveland Singers reunited in song at the Gospel Music Workshop of America's "Tribute to the King" program on Wednesday afternoon, August 15, 2007. The alumni who participated in the reunion were Eugene Bryant, Cleo Kennedy, Henry Jackson, Calvin Bernard Rhone, Gene Viale, Rodney-Wayne Finney, and [...]

2007 Inductees to the International Gospel Music Hall of Fame

2014-07-21T21:59:06-05:00August 10th, 2007|

Evelyn Turentine-Agee, The Christianaires, Marie Knight, Bishop Kenneth Moales, Bishop G.E. Patterson, Norma Jean Pender, Ernestine Rundless & The Meditation Singers and The Staples Singers are this year's inductees to the International Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Museum.The 2007 inductees, nominated from around the world and selected by the [...]

TBGB Reviews…Joann Rosario

2014-07-21T21:59:06-05:00August 7th, 2007|

Joyous SalvationJoann RosarioVerity Records 2007www.myspace.com/joannrosarioIn early 2003, the lovely, petite Joann Rosario was hit with the granddaddy of all ailments for a vocalist: nodules on her vocal cords. Such things are so serious they are spoken of in only the most respectful and hushed of tones in music departments coast [...]

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