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Bishop Larry D. Trotter & the Sweet Holy Spirit Combined ChoirsI Still BelieveUtopia Music Group and Tyscot Records 2009www.tyscot.comIt’s not surprising to hear references to Job on Bishop Trotter and the Combined Choirs of Sweet Holy Spirit’s seventh CD, I Still Believe. Battling acute health problems and other trials and [...]

From a Press Release: Nashville, TN – Sheri Jones-Moffett is the voice you know and love. From The Tri-City Singers to her duo work in Ted & Sheri, Moffett has been known as the team player and the featured vocalist, yet this summer she breaks out on her own and [...]

From Verity Gospel Music Group:MARVIN SAPP’S “NEVER WOULD HAVE MADE IT” REACHES MORE THAN 1 MILLION IN RINGTONE SALESSONG CLAIMS ANOTHER BREAKTHROUGH FOR SAPP, WHO BECOMES FIRST GOSPEL ARTIST TO SELL OVER 1 MILLION RINGTONESNew York, NY – June 4, 2009 – The milestones continue to pour in for Marvin [...]

The Golden Wings Quartet of Tupelo, MSLive from Muskegon Heights, MISelf-produced 2008www.GoldenWingsQuartet.comLive recordings by gospel quartets are a treat because their audiences rival those of English football clubs for their outpouring of enthusiasm and intense loyalty. Similarly, the in-person interchange between audience/fans and quartet/team inspires the latter to take play [...]

Archie Swindell and Sandy Foster informed TBGB that Marvin Johnson, former guitarist for the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, passed away Tuesday, May 26, 2009, in Bennettsville, SC. The services were held on Sunday, May 31.Johnson can be heard on the Blind Boys’ Peacock LPs There’s A God Somewhere and [...]

Donnie McClurkin and Kirk Franklin headline a star-studded Chicago Gospel Music Festival. The fest will be held in Chicago's beautiful Millenium Park Saturday, June 6 and Sunday, June 7.For more information, visit http://www.chicagogospelmusicfestival.us/.Below is the roster of performers from the Festival website. You are in for a treat the entire [...]

Beverly CrawfordLive from Los AngelesJDI Records 2008www.jdirecords.comMultiple GRAMMY-nominated Beverly Crawford has church on the video companion to her 2008 release, Live from Los Angeles. It was this project, her first for Professor James Roberson’s JDI Records, which earned her a 2009 Stellar Award for Traditional Female Vocalist of the Year.The [...]

“What Have You Done?”Naomi Shelton & the Gospel QueensFrom the Daptone CD What Have You Done, My Brother (2009)http://www.daptonerecords.com/naomishelton.htmlThe design of the album cover and the sound of the song shout Seventies gospel soul, but make no mistake: “What Have You Done?” is a 2009 release on Daptone Records. It’s [...]

“I’ll Be That”Donovan OwensFrom the Diversity Records CD All That I Have (available online June 20, 2009)www.donovanowensmusic.comMilwaukee, Wisconsin’s Donovan Owens is a twelve year-old gospel singer who has already shared the stage with veteran vocalists such as Pastor Marvin Winans and Dorinda Clark-Cole. He was featured on Kirk Franklin’s song, [...]

Glen David AndrewsWalking Through Heaven’s GateThreadhead Records 2009www.glendavidandrewsband.comRecipe for an instant gospel celebration? Find a church, invite a brassy Dixieland jazz band with a shouting lead singer in to perform from the weathered hymnbook, ask the choir to provide the background vocals, gather the congregation and voila! Gospel Celebration.That’s exactly [...]