“No Not One”Eddie Ruth BradfordFrom the CD Jesus is Coming Back (2011)www.eddieruthbradfordmusic.comLeave it to Mississippi’s Eddie Ruth Bradford to get the New Year started with a dose of spicy, bluesy traditional gospel.Bradford delivers “No Not One,” a variation on “There’s Not a Friend Like the Lowly Jesus,” in a low, [...]
The Stellar Awards were held in Nashville this evening, and http://www.ugospel.com/ as well as http://www.gospelflava.com/ released the list of winners. Read more here:And the 2011 Stellar Award goes to...and for the list of winners alongside the nominees, go here:GOSPELflava.com.From the looks of it, the evening was especially rewarding for Marvin Sapp, BeBe &CeCe Winans, and James Fortune & FIYA. [...]
Reverend John Wilkins You Can’t Hurry God Fat Possum Records/Big Legal Mess (2010) http://www.biglegalmessrecords.com/ Talk about old school. On You Can’t Hurry God, Reverend John Wilkins takes us way back into the North Mississippi Hill Country for sacred music, guitar evangelist style. The result is an album with the simple [...]
Downbeat editor and gospel music contributor to the Chicago Tribune Aaron Cohen offers an excellent portrait of gospel singer and composer VaShawn Mitchell. Read it here: VaShawn Mitchell
Kevin GrayThe ComebackGoldstreet Gospel (2010)http://www.goldstreetgospel.com/A sonic blast smacks you in the face, like a bracing wind, in the first seconds of Kevin Gray’s The Comeback, his third and latest project. Sneering guitars, booming bass and roaring drums attack you like Batman, whose dual life as Caped Crusader/Bruce Wayne becomes Gray’s [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.This coming weekend, Trip Lee will learn whether his third album, Between Two Worlds, earns a Stellar Award for Rap Hip Hop Gospel CD of the Year.Whether or not Lee wins, the Stellar nomination is the latest milestone in the journey of the young [...]
“You Can’t Hurry God”Rev. John WilkinsFrom the CD You Can’t Hurry God (Big Legal Mess/Fat Possum Records 2010)www.biglegalmessrecords.comRev. John Wilkins’ unhurried drawl, his soulful doo-wop guitar picking, and the soft purr of Adam Woodard’s organ make "You Can’t Hurry God” sound like Toussaint McCall produced by Willie Mitchell.The comparison is not [...]
Matthew Knights Willams informed TBGB today that Arthur Lee "Bob" Beatty passed away. Michele LaLand added (below) that Mr. Beatty passed away yesterday evening, January 8th, in Spartanburg, SC. He was 96. Beatty was a member of legendary quartet groups the Heavenly Gospel Singers, Violinaires, Trumpets of Joy and Four [...]
Bishop Manning and the Manning FamilyConverted Mind – The Early RecordingsBig Legal Mess Records/Fat Possum Records (2010)http://www.biglegalmessrecords.com/Reviewed by Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.On “If You Miss Me,” Bishop Dready Manning delivers his life testimony while firing off sparkling rockabilly licks from his electric guitar. Between riffs, he quips, [...]
Todd DulaneyPulling Me ThroughGoldstreet Gospel (2010)www.goldstreetgospel.com Reviewed by Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog. As a background vocalist for Smokie Norful, former professional baseball player Todd Dulaney studied the Stellar Award-winning singer’s melismatic runs and adopted some as his own, all the while maintaining a smooth, crooning style distinct from [...]
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