DrivenThe Canton SpiritualsZomba Gospel 2007Driven is a fitting title for any quartet recording, but especially for the latest release by the Canton Spirituals. For more than 60 years, since Harvey Watkins, Sr. founded the group in Canton, Mississippi in 1943, the group has traveled the length and breadth of the [...]
Speaking of musical innovators….Yale graduate Kersten Stevens, someone you have met before on The Black Gospel Blog, paid a visit to the Gospel Announcers Guild during the Gospel Music Workshop of America in Orlando, Florida last month.Stevens charmed the Guild members right out of their seats with her gospelized instrumental [...]
The multi-talented and multi-award winning Israel (Houghton) and New Breed were in the Windy City Tuesday night, September 4, entertaining a packed auditorium in the DuSable Museum of African American History to promote their new live project, A Deeper Level, released that morning.Israel must have been tickled by the electricity [...]
“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 [...]
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