Harriet VanderpoolI Can…Tate Music Group (2010)www.tatemusicgroup.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Virginia-born Harriet Vanderpool is a praise and worship leader for Victory Life Ministries in Chesapeake, Virginia. She has also spent time directing choirs and singing on the stage. I Can... is her latest solo project.The album opens with [...]
“Gotta Praise Him (Sing Hallelujah)”Laird Sillimon & CovenantFrom the Sillimon Sound CD The One Godwww.sillimonsound.comLaird Sillimon & Covenant offer an uptempo choir number like they used to do ‘em: a class-A tambourine-shaker and hand-clapper, with the vibrant Nichole Evans on lead vocals. When Evans lets out a “Whew!” at the end, [...]
Gregory Gay of GOSPELflava.com reported this morning on the passing of Rev. Benjamin Cone, Jr. Rev. Cone was the road pastor and director of the spiritual advisory council for the Mississippi Mass Choir.Read more here: Rev. Benjamin Cone, Jr.
In September 1932, Thomas A. Dorsey wrote "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" to express the profound grief he felt over the loss of his wife Nettie and day-old son Thomas Jr. the previous month.Dorsey's gospel song was embraced from the first time he introduced it at Chicago's Ebenezer Baptist Church. [...]
“Turn It Around”Tim Rogers & the Fellas, feat. John P. KeeFrom the Blackberry Records CD Realwww.blackberryrecords.comWhile Blytheville, Arkansas’s Tim Rogers & the Fellas are considered “the next generation of quartets,” they appreciate the deep southern traditional quartet sound. In the past, they have featured members of the Williams Brothers and [...]
“Smile”The Lee BoysFrom the forthcoming CD Testify (available October 23, 2012)www.leeboys.comThe sacred steel tradition is not as prominent in today’s gospel music scene as it should be, but if the Lee Boys had their way, it would be.Born and raised in Miami, the Lee Boys grew up in the House [...]
Bishop L. Spenser Smith PresentsThe Impact Nation ChoirThe IN Timeswww.theimpactnation.orgBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Although Bishop L. Spenser Smith has been in gospel music for more than 30 years, the Stellar Award-nominee is best known for his work as L. Spenser Smith & Testament. He now pastors ImpactNation [...]
Congratulations to David McGee, former editor at Rolling Stone, whose popular TheBluegrassSpecial.com is now Deep Roots: www.deeprootsmag.org. In the past few years, McGee garnered more than 100,000 readers of The Bluegrass Special (its archives will remain available online). Readership continues to grow as he launches this expanded, nonprofit enterprise with the tagline, "Roots Music [...]
Check out this video of Reverend John Wilkins playing and singing "I Want Jesus To Walk With Me" in Hunter's Chapel, his church in Como, Mississippi.It's part of The 78 Project, which records modern musicians on a 1930s Presto direct-to-disc 78 rpm field recorder.Rev. John Wilkins, who released the critically-acclaimed You [...]
“He Never Gave Up On Me”Michael NelsonFrom the Vee Kay Music CD Nikao!www.veekaymusic.comTBGB first reviewed Michael Nelson in July 2011. More than a year later, the singer-songwriter is still abiding by the principle of his album title, “Nikao,” which means “to overcome, to prevail, to conquer.” On his latest single, [...]
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