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 24/7Get 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. 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 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 [...]
“Yesterday is on a Missile”PKFrom the CD 7UPhttp://www.pkallday.com/PK is Ace, Motown and Finance, a three-man urban group based in Atlanta and Los Angeles. They met at Georgia State University and after graduation entered -- but eventually escaped from -- Corporate America, finding their life’s passion in the groove of Christian [...]
January 2011 promises to be a special month for gospel music.In addition to the 26th Annual Stellar Awards…On January 14, 2011, BMI will honor gospel music artists Commissioned and Pastor Shirley Caesar (right) at its 12th Annual Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards Luncheon.The event will be held one day before [...]
“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 [...]
By Bob Marovich of The Black Gospel Blog.Joe Pace is a busy man these days. He just released Praise for the Sanctuary, his first CD for Tyscot Records and the latest in the popular Joe Pace Presents series. Listening parties around the country are giving fans a chance to meet [...]
“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, [...]
From Charlie and Pam Horner of Classic Urban Harmony:In a year filled with bad news, we are extremely saddened to report the passing of our close friend Calvin Williams. Calvin was born in Bucksport, SC, on November 8, 1921. Calvin began singing Gospel music and at the age of 15 [...]
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