Johnny B. Williams Songs for the World to Sing Salathiel Records (2013) www.salathielrecords.com By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog I extolled the virtues of Johnny B. Williams in 2009 after listening to his five star album, The Way I Worship. With his latest CD, Songs for the World [...]
Ed. Note: Michael Corcoran is the author of He is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes, the companion book to the Tompkins Square 2012 reissue of the pioneering gospel pianist's historic 1920s recordings.Read Corcoran's marvelous article for Arts+Labor+Austin on the late gospel announcer Bill "The Mailman" Martin (photo above) [...]
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“I Come To You”Silletthia HillSome Mystique Music (2014)www.somemystiquemusic.com Backed by a robust choir, Atlanta’s Silletthia Hill weaves compelling bluesy melismatic runs over a gently rolling melody punctuated by a warbling organ. “I Come To You,” written by Brian Cosby, is a pledge of complete and total service to the Lord [...]
“God’s Love Lifted Me Higher”Roscoe Robinson & the Birmingham Blind BoysFrom the Mississippi Delta Blues CDGod's Love Lifted Me Higher (2014)www.mississippideltabluesinfo.com/roscoe.htmlTrading on his experience as lead singer for the Mississippi, Alabama, and Ohio Blind Boys, veteran singer Roscoe Robinson has assembled the Birmingham Blind Boys, a new quartet named for his [...]
Dr. Vera J. Goodman & Anointed PraiseIt’s Our TimeFirst Lady Productions (2014)Anointedpraise2011@yahoo.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel BlogIndependently produced church choir albums have been around since at least the early 1960s, and the results have been as mixed as the choirs recorded. It’s Our Time, a self-produced live recording by [...]
Enjoy this podcast of "Gospel Memories" - words and music with the Barrett Sisters: Billie Barrett GreenBey and Rodessa Barrett Porter. Plus Dr. Mary Campbell (daughter of the late DeLois Barrett Campbell), Fran Allen-Leake, and Prof. L. Stanley Davis.Gospel Memories - April 19, 2014The Sweet Sisters of Zion: DeLois Barrett [...]
Damien Sneed co-presented, in conjunction with Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center, a series of YouTube videos featuring the historic Abyssinian Mass: A Gospel Celebration.Enjoy the entire two-hour performance of Wynton Marsalis's sacred work here, from the Frederick P. Rose Theater in New York City, Thursday evening, October 24, [...]
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