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Le’Andria JohnsonChristmas BestMusic World Gospel (2011)www.musicworldgospel.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Capitalizing on the wave of interest in BET Sunday Best champ Le’Andria Johnson and the success of her debut EP, Music World Gospel has released her Christmas EP, Christmas Best.While her debut, The Awakening of Le’Andria Johnson, is [...]

“I Tried Jesus”The Jackson Sisters From the Four Winds CD I Tried Jesus (2011)http://www.malaco.com/On “I Tried Jesus,” the Anointed Jackson Sisters of Goldsboro, North Carolina offer a hard-shouting, altar-pacing, floor-pounding traditional ode to the power of Jesus in their lives. The live performance from a program in Rocky Mount, North [...]

The Nevels SistersIt’s My Time (New Traditional Thump)Squeekey Entertainment/MoLife Entertainment (2011)www.thenevelssisters.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.The Nevels Sisters – April, Debra, Gail and Veneice – have what it takes to be the new Clark Sisters. Individually and collectively talented and adorned with style, the sisters sparkle on their [...]

Special thanks to documentarian and filmmaker David Licata of A Life's Work for featuring my top ten favorite gospel recordings of all time.Check it out here: A Life's Work BlogAt right: TBGB's Bob Marovich hosting "Gospel Memories" at WLUW FM in Chicago.  Photo credit - Laurel Delaney.

“Thank You”Amber BullockFrom the Music World Gospel EP Thank You (2011)http://www.musicworldgospel.com/BET’s Sunday Best Season Four champ Amber Bullock "Amberizes" this Walter Hawkins selection, making it her first single and the title of her debut CD, released last week. To a punchy arrangement with thumping bass and vigorous background vocalists, Bullock surveys the day's social problems [...]

TBGB Founder and Editor-in-Chief Bob Marovich will be on The Music Box with Stellar Award-nominee Tanya Dallas-Lewis this Thursday, December 15 at 8:00 p.m. EST.Check the program out at www.blogtalkradio.com/the-music-box or listen from your phone: 646-652-2106.

The Quebec Celebration Gospel ChoirNoel Divin (2011)http://www.gospelcelebration.qc.ca/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.The inter-cultural Quebec Celebration Gospel Choir sounds ready-made to sing Christmas songs. The group’s new album, Noel Divin, proves that it’s so.If you have not heard the Quebec Celebration Gospel Choir (Le Choeur Gospel Celebration), it has [...]

“God is With Us”Carrol HallFrom the CD Songs that Sing You to Silence (2011)Email contact: hallc333@yahoo.com.auSouth African-born singer-songwriter Carrol Hall immigrated with her family to Perth, Western Australia in the 1980s to escape the oppressive apartheid government. Since the fall of apartheid, Hall has returned time and again to minister [...]

Shree Newman-IsabellLife of a Worshipper (2011)http://www.shreeisabell.com/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Recorded live at the Gallatin Campus of Long Hollow Baptist Church, Life of a Worshipper is the debut CD for singer-songwriter Shree Newman-Isabell, the Tennessee native known as Nashville’s “best kept secret.” The first few songs on the [...]

“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”Melinda WattsAvailable on iTunes.comHere’s a lovely Christmas offering from Melinda Watts, the Stellar and Dove Award-nominated gospel singer and winner of Gospel Music Channel’s Gospel Dream talent search. It’s her first new recording in more than two years.Watts delivers a cozy reading of the Holiday [...]