Various ArtistsMusic World Gospel Presents theESSENCE Music Festival, Volume 5: The Gospel CollectionMusic World Gospel 2011http://www.musicworldgospel.com/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Gospel music has been presented in a festival environment for decades, since at least 1938, when Chicago’s First Church of Deliverance held its first candlelighting service at the Chicago [...]
Rodgers-Awkard & Lyons Funeral Home reports:Regretfully, the death of Charles Miller Lyons on November 22, 2011, in Louisville, KY. Charles was a well-known organist, soloist and choir director in the Chicago area. The churches formerly served include the First Church of Deliverance in Chicago, St. Stephen Church of Louisville, and [...]
Sunday Best champ and gospel charter Le'Andria Johnson's holiday CD, Christmas Best, hits stores December 6. Sample it yourself below.Click Here: Christmas BestP.S. It's good to see Le'Andria smiling on the front cover of the album. The serious photo on her debut CD didn't do it for me.
Angie HallBeyond Expectations…Thoughts from an Unspoken MindAngie Hall Music (2011)http://www.angiehallmusic.com/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Not to be confused with Brooklyn’s Angela Hall (Beautiful God), Angie Hall is a North Carolina-born indie singer-songwriter whose musical style is best described as “inspirational fusion.” Hall’s worship lyrics, set to an amalgam [...]
“Rescue Me”The James’From the Needle Gate Records CD Rescue Mewww.needlegate.comNo, this is not a gospelized version of Fontella Bass’s 1965 soul smash. The title track of the James’ CD is hypnotic and bracing, a praise and worship melody given a marching tempo and all but overshadowed by performance techniques straight [...]
Various ArtistsThis May Be My Last Time Singing:Raw African-American Gospel on 45 RPM 1957-1982Tompkins Square 2011http://www.tompkinssquare.com/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Imagine yourself diving head first into a crate packed with dusty 45 rpm vinyl records of gospel music.Not the hits of the day – not the Gospel Harmonettes, [...]
The Sounds of Blackness (self-titled) Malaco Records 2011 http://www.malaco.com/ By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog. On its latest, self-titled CD, the Sounds of Blackness underscores its optimistic message of healing, unity and hope with dramatic flourishes of theatricality. The sound is so tight, the theme so on point, [...]
ASONThe Future is NowSonnyWorld Music (2011)www.bigsonny.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Having just released his fourth album, The Future is Now, gospel rapper ASON (aka Big Sonny, aka Thurman Custis) is getting his first real taste of national exposure. As he told TBGB during our interview earlier this month, [...]
Los Angeles, CA--The founder and president of Born Again Records, Barnett Williams, who gave the world Christian comedian Broderick E. Rice, James Grear and Company, Mary Floyd, 5 A.M. Praise, Tim "Bishop" Brown and Sonya Barry to name a few has died, it was announced Friday, November 11, 2011.Barnett Williams, [...]
Shekinah Glory MinistryRefreshed By Fire (DVD)Kingdom Records 2011http://www.kingdomrecordsinc.com/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Directed by Joel Kapity (Blessed & Cursed), the DVD companion to Shekinah Glory Ministry’s two-CD set, Refreshed By Fire, captures the award-winning praise and worship ensemble in its tenth year. The DVD is more compelling than the [...]
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