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“Can You Use Me”Macey J. Wright From the Wrightway Ministries CD The Intervention (2011)http://www.maceywrightintervention2k10.com/The young Brooklyn-born Macey J. Wright brings an urban R&B-inspired style to the single, “Can You Use Me,” on which she not only volunteers to serve the kingdom but also seems to interview for the position. The [...]

Tonya BakerThe Live EncounterKingdom Records (Released May 3, 2011)http://www.kingdomrecordsinc.com/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Tonya Baker’s sophomore album for Kingdom Records is a live recording. The Live Encounter is a great way to experience the singer, too. The Dayton, Ohio psalmist is in her element leading a praise and [...]

“He Will”Tim Bowman Jr. feat. Vickie Winanswww.facebook.com/timbowjrTim Bowman, Jr. comes from a family blessed richly by talent. His father is smooth jazz guitarist Tim Bowman and his aunt is Vickie Winans. The younger Bowman got his first taste of the recording studio when he joined his Aunt Vickie some years [...]

“Love Is”Colandra McDowellFrom the CD E.T.A.(2011)http://www.colandramcdowell.com/Born and raised in North Carolina, the lovely Colandra McDowell has been heard most recently as a background vocalist for her cousin, gospel singer Kim Person (Speak Life). McDowell steps into the spotlight on her own debut album, E.T.A. (Estimated Time of Arrival), produced by [...]

Kim Burrell The Love Album Shanachie Entertainment (2011) http://www.shanachie.com/ By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog. It’s all you need. A many-splendored thing. According to Mickey and Sylvia, it can even make you fail in school. It’s arguably the most written about emotion in all of popular music. Love. [...]

The Gillian Grannum ProjectPerfect PeaceRain Down Melodies (2010)www.gilliangrannum.comPerfect Peace is a collection of sacred songs written by Gillian Grannum over the past decade and performed with panache by a team of singers and musicians. I say sacred songs because the selections cannot be classified as gospel, although some of the vocalists clearly [...]

By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.The saints sure know how to have church.But it wasn’t just members of the Church of God in Christ who gathered Monday night, May 16, to kick-off the 95th anniversary year of Chicago’s historic Roberts Temple COGIC.A multi-denominational service, chaired by Rev. Eric [...]

“Victory”Syreeta ThompsonFrom her forthcoming CD In His Presence (2011)http://www.trumpetlady.com/Gabriel handed down his silver trumpet – or in this case, two trumpets, a white and a red – to Syreeta Thompson, who uses them to tumble down the walls of Jericho. Thompson is a rarity as a female trumpeter but she’s [...]

Pastor David Wright Presents theRev. Timothy Wright Memorial ChoirThe Legacy Continues… (2011)www.gracetabernaclecogic.comDid the late Rev. Timothy Wright imagine, in the early 1970s when he was laying down his contemporary choral sounds for the forward-gazing Glori label, that his music would someday be labeled “traditional?”Hard to say, but everything old is [...]

“Ignited”Jessica RuizFrom the forthcoming CD Ignited (release date: Fall 2011)http://www.jessicaruiz.com/Strong and persuasive from the moment the laser hits the disc, “Ignited” lives up to its title. Jessica Ruiz (“Condition of the Heart”), worship leader for West 58th Street Church of God in Cleveland, Ohio, sings with energy and muscle, as [...]