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Pick of the Week: January 16, 2025
“Blessings” Yolanda Adams From the Epic Records album Sunny Days (album release date: September 13, 2024) By Robert M. Marovich Sharing the spotlight with a new generation of young gospel singers are veterans like CeCe Winans and Yolanda Adams who continue to put before the public singles with substance. “Blessings,” Yolanda Adams’ follow-up to last year’s excellent “Church Doors,” is one of those affecting songs. "Blessings: is a prayer of parting with an easy Sunday morning feel that evokes the songwriting of Kirk Franklin. Years of honing her vocal craft shine through Adams’ declarative lead, but the chant by [...]
JGM Best CDs, Singles, and Historic Reissues of 2024
Journal of Gospel Music presents its Best of List for 2024
Various Artists: Parchman Prison Prayer – Another Mississippi Sunday Morning
Given the unexpected success of, and critical acclaim for, the 2023 release Parchman Prison Prayer – Some Mississippi Sunday Morning, GRAMMY Award-winning producer and author Ian Brennan flew back to the Mississippi penitentiary to do a second album, Parchman Prison Prayer - Another Mississippi Sunday Morning.
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Angelo Ellerbee, the founder/president of Double XXposure Media, who guided entertainment luminaries such as Grammy winning producer James Mtume, Tony Award legend Melba Moore, and the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, has released his fourth in a series of motivational books, Before I Let You Go.
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Pick of the Week: January 16, 2025
“Blessings” Yolanda Adams From the Epic Records album Sunny Days (album release date: September 13, 2024) By Robert M. Marovich Sharing the spotlight with a new generation of young gospel singers are veterans like CeCe Winans and Yolanda Adams who continue to put before the public singles with substance. “Blessings,” Yolanda Adams’ follow-up to last year’s excellent “Church Doors,” is one of those affecting songs. "Blessings: is a prayer of parting with an easy Sunday morning feel that evokes the songwriting of Kirk Franklin. Years of honing her vocal craft shine through Adams’ declarative lead, but the chant by [...]
JGM Best CDs, Singles, and Historic Reissues of 2024
Journal of Gospel Music presents its Best of List for 2024
Various Artists: Parchman Prison Prayer – Another Mississippi Sunday Morning
Given the unexpected success of, and critical acclaim for, the 2023 release Parchman Prison Prayer – Some Mississippi Sunday Morning, GRAMMY Award-winning producer and author Ian Brennan flew back to the Mississippi penitentiary to do a second album, Parchman Prison Prayer - Another Mississippi Sunday Morning.
Sponsored Post:
Angelo Ellerbee, the founder/president of Double XXposure Media, who guided entertainment luminaries such as Grammy winning producer James Mtume, Tony Award legend Melba Moore, and the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, has released his fourth in a series of motivational books, Before I Let You Go.
MAVERICK CITY MUSIC LANDS NOMINATION ALONGSIDE GLORILLA FOR #1 BILLBOARD DIGITAL GOSPEL SONG “RAIN ON ME” TRIBL RECORDS SCORES MOST NOMINATIONS ACROSS ALL CHRISTIAN & GOSPEL LABELS (ATLANTA, GA) – [...]
Gospel Diaries Golden Memories is a series of musical moments captured by historian Eric Maurice Clark during his visits with vocalists and musicians, most of whom have direct links to gospel’s earliest days, especially in Chicago, the genre’s birthplace city.
Mervin Mayo, the Richmond, Virginia, policeman whose gospel singing was caught on video in 2020 and subsequently went viral, sings “In This Place” with a gritty and instantly-compelling R&B-style vocal delivery.
Trading truisms with a full-throated choir, Bishop Norman Hutchins reminds the listener in his boisterous new single that God has brought his people a mighty long way.
This episode includes music reviewed on the Journal of Gospel Music between mid-October and late December 2024.
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Sometimes you come across a singer of significant sensitivity and sometimes you come across a skillful songwriter, but rarely do you come across someone who combines both. Regina Vandereijk has both.
What should have been a celebratory album launch is now a memorial tribute to a beloved southern gospel group.
Fresh off her multi-award-winning debut live project Believe For It, CeCe Winans drops another five-star live project with More Than This.
John Paul McGee A Gospejazzical Christmas Jazz Urbane (release date: November 16, 2023) Guest review by David McGee In A Gospejazzical Christmas, the first new recording we’ve heard from Dr. John Paul McGee, Ph.D., since his acclaimed 2022 release, Gospejazzical Vol. 1, the gifted pianist-songwriter-producer-vocal arranger (currently assistant chair of piano at the Berklee College [...]
For its sixth album and first in three years, gospel group Anthony Brown and Group TherAPy offers a battery of scripture-based affirmations on its album of the same name.
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“Blessings” Yolanda Adams From the Epic Records album Sunny Days (album release date: September 13, 2024) By Robert M. Marovich Sharing the spotlight with a new generation of young gospel singers are veterans like CeCe Winans and Yolanda Adams who continue to put before the public singles with substance. “Blessings,” Yolanda Adams’ follow-up to [...]
Mervin Mayo, the Richmond, Virginia, policeman whose gospel singing was caught on video in 2020 and subsequently went viral, sings “In This Place” with a gritty and instantly-compelling R&B-style vocal delivery.
“Rise” Jokia From the motion picture soundtrack Love Mountain Blacksmoke Music Worldwide (release date: May 17, 2024)
“Call On Him” Fantastik Violinaires feat. Danny Walker Millennium Sound Records (release date: September 27, 2024)
Based on Amos 9:13-15, “Suddenly” is an auspicious debut single from Christian Anderson, an accomplished and affecting Greensboro, North Carolina, singer.
By Robert Marovich
In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.
By Robert Marovich
In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.
There aren't many gospel singers left who remember the early days of the genre. But Ms. Bessie Pullen does. The 97-Year-Old singer reflects on her life as a gospel singer in Florida. Her husband, Melvyn Pullen, was a member of the popular quartet the Gospelaires.
Fresh off the thirty-city I Got Away tour, in partnership with McDonald’s Inspiration Celebration Gospel Tour, singer and songwriter Bri Babinieux is looking forward to releasing a new album this fall.
The Beverly Arts Center will open its Pride Month Celebration Sunday, June 9, with Shout OUT: A Tribute to Gays in Gospel Music.
Rodessa Barrett Porter, the last of the original Barrett Sisters, passed away December 16, 2024, one day after her 94th birthday.
Gospel singer and background vocalist Emily "Cissy" Houston passed away October 7, 2024, at age 91.
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