Bob

"In Me"Eunice WrightFrom the CD Wait On Me 2009Joyful Noyze EntertainmentBorn, raised and living in Delaware, Psalmist Eunice Wright is a "PK" - born to Bishop David and Evangelist Ella Purnell. Of course, being a PK is a good thing, because true to her lineage, Wright knows how to minister [...]

Here are photographic highlights from Monday and Tuesday, July 27 & 28, of the Gospel Announcers Guild of the Gospel Music Workshop of America - in host city Cincinnati, Ohio (photos by TBGB). Bishop Larry Trotter and the Sweet Holy Spirit Combined Choirs of Chicago, directed by James Lott, tear [...]

"Working My Faith"Letita MartinFrom the I-66 Entertainment album Take Me Somewhere Unexpected(Single available on iTunes August 18, 2009; full album in stores Fall 2010)Letita Martin of Rapid City, South Carolina delivers a song about finding and hanging onto faith despite life's challenges, and she does it with such an intense [...]

“I Need You Lord”Curtis WashingtonOverBoard Recordswww.myspace.com/thecurtiswashingtonGospel artist and “PK” Curtis Washington of Houston, Texas was once a member of the R&B group “Reality” and the gospel group “God’s Creation.” He is known to many as the late Gerald Levert’s unofficial twin, given the two singers’ vocal similarities.Today, Curtis is going [...]

TBGB is saddened to report the death of Horace Clarence Boyer, gospel music singer and historian. From WNCU:http://www.wncu.org/jazz-news/horace-clarence-boyer-1935-2009/

“Twisted”Michelle Lang & StillwaterFrom the forthcoming CD Obnoxious (release date: August 2009)www.michellelang-stillwater.comFormed in 2000 and expecting to do a “one time…just outside of town” type of gig, Michelle Lang and Stillwater from Seattle, Washington now has three albums to its credit and a fourth on the way. Lang was voted [...]

J MossJust JamesVerity Gospel Music Group 2009www.verityrecords.comJames “J” Moss is one of the most exciting gospel artists of the decade. Of course, he hails from the Moss/Clark dynasty, as prodigious a musical family as there is, and from Detroit, no less, a city that knows a thing or two about [...]

“Inna the Ghettio”Papa SanFrom the Habakkuk Music/Beloved Records album Higher Heights (in stores July 28) www.habakkukmusic.comBorrowing from Dave Withers’ 1971 hit single “Ain’t No Sunshine,” former Jamaican dance hall hitmaker, Stellar Award-winner and ordained minister Papa San raps reggae on “Inna the Ghettio.” The song is about the trials of [...]

Special thanks to Shane Steward for passing along this article from Greg Garrison of the Birmingham News, and for making available these photographs.Mildred Howard, a member of the Original Gospel Harmonettes of Birmingham, died Sunday [July 12] in Cincinnati.She was believed to be about 89 years old, although a family [...]