TBGB’s Bob Marovich Hosts Barrett Sisters Documentary at Film Festival
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Music-lovers and true believers meet in the Gospel Tent | Features | The New Orleans Advocate
Music-lovers and true believers meet in the Gospel Tent | Features | The New Orleans Advocate
City of Chicago Announces 29th Annual Gospel Fest Headliners – Chicago Music Blog | Chicago Music Blog
City of Chicago Announces 29th Annual Gospel Fest Headliners - Chicago Music Blog | Chicago Music Blog
“I Come To You” – Silletthia Hill
“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 [...]
TBGB Pick of the Week: April 21, 2014
“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 [...]
It’s Our Time – Dr. Vera J. Goodman & Anointed Praise
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 [...]
Gospel Memories – April 19, 2014: Interview with the Barrett Sisters
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 [...]
An Easter Treat: Complete Performance of Abyssinian Mass: A Gospel Celebration
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, [...]
J. M. Cruver – Don’t Give Up
J. M. CruverDon’t Give UpSharp Records (2014)www.amazon.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel BlogAll James Michael Cruver wants to do is sing a church song. He sings six, as a matter of fact, on his new Sharp Records EP, Don’t Give Up.Originally from Newnan, Georgia, where he is primary musician [...]
