Alexis Spight, with her fiery red hair and golden voice, was a favorite of both the judges and audience during Season Five of BET's Sunday Best.While she came up just short of the crown in the 2012 gospel competition, the 19-year-old singer/songwriter is still a winner. She has been signed [...]
“I Can’t Go for That”Ron C. WaltersFrom the TMG-Grace CD Here Is My Life (2012)www.roncwalters.comMany pop songs have been saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost by gospel artists, but this was the first time I’d heard Hall and Oates’ number one hit from 1981, “I Can’t Go for [...]
Pastor Mitty CollierI Owe It All to the WordFriars Point, Inc. & Bright Echoes, Inc./P-Vine (2011)By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.“I had a talk with God last night…”Her voice may be a little lower these days and more pointed than poignant, but there’s no mistaking Pastor Mitty Collier [...]
Gregory Gay of GOSPELflava.com reports that gospel has lost yet another singer.Pastor Barbara Best, founding member of the B L & S Singers, has passed away.Read more here: Barbara Best.
“Hold to God’s Unchanging Hand”Eric CarringtonDivine Line Records (2012)www.ericcarrington.comEric Carrington of Houston, Texas, goes Deep South on “Hold to God’s Unchanging Hand,” a quartet-fired song about making it through the “valley experiences” of life.Carrington; his father, Pastor James Carrington of Willing Workers Baptist Church; and the Mighty Clouds of Joy’s [...]
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The Rance Allen GroupAmazing GraceTyscot Records (2012)www.tyscot.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Few longstanding gospel groups have managed to remain as classic and contemporary as the Rance Allen Group. Organized in the late 1960s in Monroe, Michigan, the trio of brothers continues to please audiences with music that is rooted [...]
“This Christmas”Mario BrownEmerging gospel artist Mario Brown from Milwaukee eschews the brassy instrumentation that normally endows Donny Hathaway’s Christmas classic and performs it a cappella, accompanied by polyrhythmic doo wop beats performed entirely by mouth, a la Take 6 and Bobby McFerrin.Brown said, “2012 has been a great year. My album, Glory-The [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Humbling.That was how Michele Clark Jenkins described how she and co-editor Stephanie Perry Moore felt as they began assembling Sisters In Faith Bible, a new resource for African American women.“Here are human hands getting real close to the word of God,” Jenkins told [...]
