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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.

Daughter Chronicles Father’s Life in Gospel Quartet

2014-07-21T21:54:45-05:00November 13th, 2010|

Anne’ DuBois and her brothers Kenneth and Jonathan, Jr. began compiling a patron’s program to distribute at the 70th birthday celebration of their father, Jonathan “Papa Joe” DuBose, Sr. of the Sensational Starlights quartet. But the more Anne’ researched and contributed information to the program, the more the project “took on a life [...]

Outreach 24/7 – Get Off the Pew

2014-07-21T21:54:45-05:00November 12th, 2010|

Outreach 24/7Get Off the Pew (2010)http://www.outreach247.com/If Sly and the Family Stone had produced a gospel album, I suspect it would have sounded like the first half of Get Off the Pew.This new CD by the Washington, DC ensemble Outreach 24/7 is the very definition of “praise party,” or in the terminology [...]

“He’s Been Faithful” – Elder E.L. Williams

2014-07-21T21:54:45-05:00November 12th, 2010|

“He’s Been Faithful”Elder E.L. WilliamsAvailable on http://www.amazon.com/Elder E.L. Williams of Philadelphia is a bass who sings sub-basement notes with the ease of Jimmy Jones and Dickie Freeman while crooning like Bishop Charles Watkins. In fact, after hearing him, Philly radio personality Linda Timmons of WHAT nicknamed the smooth-as-silk singer the [...]

“Prayer is the Key” – The Alabama Boys

2014-07-21T21:54:45-05:00November 11th, 2010|

“Prayer is the Key”The Alabama BoysMalaco/4 Winds Records (2010)http://www.thealabamaboys.org/I’m going against the grain here, because “Never Alone” is the single that the Montgomery-based Alabama Boys are promoting. It is a well-rendered, soulful, muscular contemporary quartet piece about believing in God’s unchanging hand. It will make a fine single.But as for [...]

“Things Are Gonna Get Better” – Zak Williams & 1/Akord

2014-07-21T21:54:45-05:00November 10th, 2010|

“Things Are Gonna Get Better”Zak Williams & 1/Akordhttp://www.zakwilliams.com/Zak Williams & 1/Akord is a 40-member, multi-denominational gospel choir whose members hail from several states on the east coast. The group has existed in its current iteration since 2005.  Its sophomore CD, recorded in 2008, is scheduled for release sometime this year.The first [...]

TBGB Pick of the Week: November 8, 2010

2014-07-21T21:54:45-05:00November 8th, 2010|

“Remind Me”Brian Reeves & Heart After GodFrom the CD Awakening (2010)http://www.heartaftergod.org/“Remind Me,” from Indianapolis-based Brian Reeves & Heart After God, is a sensitively but powerfully wrought vocal ballad set to a lovely CCM melody. The song is about God’s promise to never let His creatures down, no matter what. Thus, [...]

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