Noe’ FelizFavor of GodNew Way Songs (2012)www.noefeliz.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel BlogFrom Rutgers University, where his formation as a worship leader began, to 2013 Rhythm of Gospel Awardee for Urban Contemporary Male Vocalist, Noe’ Feliz has honed a personal approach to P&W.This approach, displayed on his album, Favor [...]
“Whatever You Need” The North Carolina Community Choir From the 4 Winds Records release A Story To Tell (2013) www.malaco.com With “Whatever You Need,” the North Carolina Community Choir puts an asterisk after the statement that the Southeastern U.S. is exclusive territory of the gospel quartet. The single is [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel BlogTasha Page-Lockhart of Detroit—daughter of gospel artists Lisa and Michael Brooks—has just been crowned winner of BET Sunday Best Season 6, but Chicagoans can be especially proud of Tyler Little. The hometown singer advanced all the way to the finals of TV's Sunday Best, the [...]
“You Are”Hans Christian and Gospel Fellowship (Opstand Gospel Choir) featuring Fred HammondFrom the CD You Are www.hanschristianpresents.comThe gentle and poignant “You Are” is the product of a multicultural, multinational collaboration between the Hans Christian and Gospel Fellowship ensemble of Denmark and Detroiter Fred Hammond. Lyrically, “You Are” is part P&W [...]
Deitrick HaddonR.E.D. (Restoring Everything Damaged)RCA Inspiration (release date: September 3, 2013)www.rcainspiration.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel BlogR.E.D. (Restoring Everything Damaged) is Deitrick Haddon’s most personal album to date.Present on the twelve-song project (the deluxe version has five more cuts) are the electronic dance music and playful polyrhythms for which [...]
“Happy”Judy CheeksMozan Music (released June, 2013)www.judycheeks.comTo an unrelenting funk backdrop, Judy Cheeks—daughter of quartet legend Rev. Julius Cheeks and goddaughter of Sam Cooke—sings about how happy she is that God loves her, especially given the state of the hate today. But she doesn’t stop there. Summoning up her inner evangelist, Cheeks [...]
“He Is Lord”Pastor Dale Jay SandersObviously Blessed Music, Inc. (2013)obviouslyblessedmusic@aol.comUsing Psalm 90 for the lyrical foundation, Pastor Dale Jay Sanders and his choir give this conventional P&W piece a peppy mid-tempo reading. Sanders speaks and sings to the choir (literally) about the greatness of God, while they blithely sing the [...]
On Saturday, August 24, WLUW Chicago's Gospel Memories radio program paid tribute to the Fiftieth Anniversary of the March on Washington by featuring the artists that sang at the event, the songs they sang, and samples of some of the speeches.TBGB's Bob Marovich is host of Gospel Memories, "the home [...]
“A Little Help From My Friend”VadiaFrom Vadia’s Mixtape Vol. 1 (2013)https://twitter.com/vahdeeuhVadia Rhodes, aka Vadia, gives Joe Cocker’s already gospelized version of the Beatles classic an inspirational lyric to boot. The Sacramento, California-based singer and her father, Pastor Essex Hubbard, raise the gospel temperature towards the end with a shouting duet [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog“Gospel’s Leading Man” Earnest Pugh evokes a long line of gospel balladeers stretching back to the 1930s, from Robert Anderson and R.L. Knowles to Charles Beck, and possibly further, to the 1920s and Homer Quincy Smith, member of the famous Southernaires radio quartet. [...]
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