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“Try”Charise MilesFrom the Bajada Records CD Charise Miles (2009)I heard Smokie Norful say recently that gospel is the music of hope and encouragement. If so, then “Try,” the single by Detroit’s lovely Charise Miles, is literally by the book. Here, amidst relentlessly bouncy, high-energy R&B, Miles provides a litany of [...]

A press release from Urban Roundup:NORWALK - One of the local legends of Gospel Music and an internationally recognized top songwriter, Shawn Brown died Sunday night (Feb. 1) after a long illness.Brown was born January 29, 1967 and died just days after his 43rd birthday. His manager Germane Miller was [...]

PettideeRace 2 NowhereSoldier Sound Records 2010www.soldiersound.comRace 2 Nowhere is the sixth album from Pettidee (aka Dewayne Petty), a Christian hip hop artist from Florida who is now based in Nashville. His dirty south sound is gritty, tough-as-nails, unflinchingly honest and musically intense. At the same time, the album is compellingly [...]

"Running Back to You”Lowell PyeFrom the Miralex Records CD Finally (2010)www.miralexrecords.comTeam an experienced vocalist (Lowell Pye) with a top gospel producer (Asaph A. Ward), have him sing something from the catalog of a successful songwriter (Fred Hammond) and voila! You have “Running Back to You.” A former member of the [...]

From Grammy.com: here are the 52nd Annual Grammy Awardees in the gospel categories:Best Gospel Performance:“Wait On The Lord”Donnie McClurkin Featuring Karen Clark SheardTrack from: We All Are One (Live In Detroit)[Verity]Best Gospel Song:“God In Me”Erica Campbell, Tina Campbell & Warryn Campbell, songwriters (Mary Mary Featuring Kierra "KiKi" Sheard)Track from: The [...]

“I Want the World to See”Seon ThompsonFrom the Just Wait Recordings CD I’m Out (2009)www.seonthompson.comSeon Thompson is the pastor from Flint, Michigan who looks as if he walked right out of the pages of GQ. Make no mistake, however: the man can sing. He figuratively brought the ceiling down upon [...]

Alisa CameronSeasonsIndependent Release 2008www.alisacameron.comGospel vocalist Alisa Cameron of Racine, Wisconsin, a metropolitan area just south of Milwaukee, has garnered sufficient praise over the years to have gone from a member of her family group, Bro. Williams and the Jones Sisters, to singing on the Bobby Jones television program. Recently, she [...]

From the superb journalist Lee Hildebrand, writing for the San Francisco Chronicle. A great story about that sadly dying breed, the independent record store, and specifically the independent gospel record store.Read it here at:Reid's Records

“Keep Trying”Angelia RobinsonFrom the CD Lessons in Love (2010)www.angeliarobinson.comAngelia Robinson grooved on a variety of musical styles while growing up in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. “Keep Trying,” her single about the trials of self-transformation, reflects her musical eclecticism in its echoes of modern R&B and jazz. When Robinson [...]

"He Will Not Change”John WilsonTopline Productionswww.toplinepd.comJohn Wilson of Mt. Vernon, NY has worked with artists from Rev. James Cleveland and the New York Community Choir to Elton John and Patti Labelle. His music career is paralleled by stage acting in performances of shows such as Tambourines to Glory, God’s Trombones [...]