Atlanta, GA - Marquis Boone Enterprises (MBE) and Tyscot Music & Entertainment have formed a partnership to release MBE projects. The first one will be a live set by worship artist Casey J (pictured) who is currently #6 on Billboard's Gospel Airplay chart. "Dreams and visions do come true,” says [...]
“He’ll Make It Alright” Pastor Antoine Hutchins featuring the Christian Unity Choir From the CD He Still Loves Me (2014) www.cdbaby.com/cd/pastorantoinehutchins No doubt the members of Christian Unity Baptist Church in Waldorf, Maryland, shout whenever Pastor Antoine Hutchins and the Christian Unity Choir break out the churchy Tommies hit, “He’ll [...]
Nothing But Love in God’s Water: Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement Robert Darden Penn State University Press (224 pages) By Bob Marovich “A singing army is a winning army, and a singing labor movement cannot be defeated.” So proclaimed labor leader [...]
Please keep Vanessa Bell Armstrong and her family lifted in prayer. Madame Armstrong's mother passed in March and now we learn that her son Terrance passed away just hours ago. Thanks to Mona King Austin for sharing the news with Journal of Gospel Music. We extend our deepest sympathies to the [...]
“Mary Did You Know” The Bishops Quartet From I Know What Prayer Can Do (2014) www.thebishopsquartet.net Mark Lowry and Buddy Greene’s “Mary Did You Know” is one of the two or three Christmas songs to come out in recent times with real "legs," or longevity. The Bishops Quartet gives it [...]
(NASHVILLE, Tennessee) -- Legendary Gospel artist Andraé Crouch was admitted to the hospital on Monday, December 1. As a result of Andraé's sudden and unexpected hospitalization, Riverphlo Entertainment has decided to postpone this month's Let the Church Say Amen Celebration Tour. Ticket holders can contact the venues for information on [...]
Click on the photo above for the latest in streaming music from the JGM Archives! Track Listing: There's been a change in me - Gregory Brown w/Abundant Life Music Ministry I need Thee - Beulah Grove Baptist Church feat. Monica Lisa Stevenson Access granted - Pastor Riva Tims presents Majestic [...]
“Do Life Big” Jamie Grace From the Gotee album Ready to Fly (2014) www.gotee.com Isn’t it a pity and a shame how many in the gospel music community ignored Jamie Grace’s “Beautiful Day,” despite its longevity on the Billboard charts? It reminds me of how songstress Heather Headley won a [...]
Fred Hammond I Will Trust RCA Inspiration (release date: November 17, 2014) www.rcainspiration.com By Bob Marovich One thing’s for sure: listen to Fred Hammond and you can't help but have a good time praising the Lord. His latest album, I Will Trust, is packed to the CD's brim with bracing [...]
Various Artists Motown Christmas Motown Gospel (2014) www.motowngospel.com By Bob Marovich Motown Christmas is the best yuletide album I have listened to in years. Gifted executive producer Aaron W. Lindsey (who also plays, writes, and sings on the album) seamlessly blends the old and the new with the sacred and [...]
