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About Bob Marovich

Bob Marovich is a gospel music historian, author, and radio host. Founder of Journal of Gospel Music blog (formally The Black Gospel Blog) and producer of the Gospel Memories Radio Show.

All Christmas Gospel Music – TBGB Music Hour Playlist

2014-07-21T21:54:37-05:00December 21st, 2010|

Christmas Drum-Apella - Prez Blackmon (single)Little Drummer Boy – The Clark Sisters (The Clark Sisters Family Christmas)Go Tell It on the Mountain – Bishop Paul S. Morton (Paul Morton’s Christmas) This Christmas – Brian Courtney Wilson (Trin-I-Tee 5:7: Love, Peace, Joy at Christmas)Don’t Cry This Christmas – Jeff Majors feat. [...]

TBGB Pick of the Week: December 20, 2010

2014-07-21T21:54:38-05:00December 20th, 2010|

“Everything I Am”B Cain & ROCKFrom the forthcoming album The Journey (release scheduled for February 2011)www.reverbnation.com/bcainandrockBrooklyn-based B Cain & ROCK features the lead vocals of Bianca Cain, a twenty-one-year-old singer/songwriter who honed her skills as part of the group Jez’Reel. She formed ROCK earlier this year out of a group [...]

“The Christmas Song” – Outreach 24/7

2014-07-21T21:54:39-05:00December 20th, 2010|

“The Christmas Song”Outreach 24/7http://www.outreach247.com/The DC-based contemporary ensemble puts their own inimitable stamp on – and adds religious lyrics to – Mel Torme’s classic “The Christmas Song,” twice made popular by songster Nat King Cole. In the midst of the group's trademark laid-back harmonizing and funky percussion, Eric Blake contributes a jazzy [...]

J Prophet – “Merry Christmas to You”

2014-07-21T21:54:40-05:00December 19th, 2010|

“Merry Christmas to You”J Prophethttp://www.jprophet.com/If you like hip hop holiday fare, J Prophet’s “Merry Christmas to You” is for you. In between strains of Christmas carols, the Ghostwriter instructs everyone to reflect, “right before you go back to the food and get seconds,” that we  are privileged to enjoy this [...]

James “Kelly Fox!” Davis & ABF – The Best Gift

2014-07-21T21:54:40-05:00December 19th, 2010|

James “Kelly Fox!” Davis and A Bunch of FriendsThe Best GiftBe Natural Entertainment 2010http://www.kellyfoxonline.com/Reviewed by Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.At the conclusion of the two-part, nine-minute-plus “What is Christmas,” James “Kelly Fox!” Davis turns to the audience.  “That’s just the first song, I told you we’re gonna have [...]

Pops Staples Recognized with Marker on Mississippi Blues Trail

2014-07-21T21:54:40-05:00December 18th, 2010|

Roebuck "Pops" Staples, patriarch of the Staple Singers whose down-home singing style and reverb guitar became the family group's trademark, was honored last week with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail.The marker was placed on Summit Street near the courthouse in Staples' hometown of Winona, Mississippi.  Authorities noted that it made sense to [...]

Kristin Smith – Expecting

2014-07-21T21:54:40-05:00December 17th, 2010|

Kristin SmithExpectingHeavenSent Records (2010)www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/116576653-expectingIf you don’t know Kristin Smith – although most in gospel music’s inner circle do – you will know her by her musical roots. Her aunt was Ruth Jones, an Alabama migrant who directed a church choir, accompanied an early iteration of the Sallie Martin Singers, but was [...]

Jasmine Burch – Declaration

2014-07-21T21:54:41-05:00December 16th, 2010|

Jasmine BurchDeclarationM.Y.R.O.H. Music Group (2010)http://www.jasmineburch.com/Reviewed by Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.To say Jasmine Burch has grown up with gospel music would be an understatement. She was exposed to it, quite literally, before she was born. While some mothers play Mozart to their gestating babies, Jasmine’s mother picked the [...]

James Fortune & FIYA – I Believe: Live

2014-07-21T21:54:41-05:00December 15th, 2010|

James Fortune & FIYAI Believe: LiveBlack Smoke Music Worldwide (2010)www.myspace.com/blacksmokemusicworldwideReviewed by Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.James Fortune exclaims “Make some noise” often on his new project, I Believe: Live. He certatinly doesn’t have to ask that of his vocalists. Possessing the energy of ten Pentecostal choirs, FIYA may [...]

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