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Gospel Legacy Series:Sandra CrouchLight Records 2008www.lightrecords.comReleased in February 2008, this collection of twelve 1980s-era tracks by Sandra Crouch is the best in Light Records’ ten-CD “Gospel Legacy” series. It focuses on Sandra's bright, energetic and engaging tracks as a solo artist. Five of the selections were culled from Sandra’s debut [...]

Congratulations to Pastor Karl and Angela Adair, and the New Beginnings North Shore Church community of Evanston, Illinois on their first year of ministry.Many churches don’t make their first year, so the Adairs had plenty to celebrate. They did by organizing the “Back Home Musical,” a combination of traditional and [...]

“Wait on the Lord”Donnie McClurkin feat. Karen Clark-SheardFrom the Verity Records CD We All Are One (Live in Detroit) – release date: March 31www.donniemcclurkin.comTime will tell, but “Wait on the Lord,” from Donnie McClurkin’s forthcoming live CD, We All Are One, has the goods to be his most popular hit [...]

“Ain’t Gon Get Mine”Euclid GrayFrom the CD Unleashed (Malaco 2008)www.malaco.comEuclid Gray is a different kind of gospel artist for Malaco, a record company whose stock-in-trade is typically the southern-hewn, soulful quartets and traditional groups. Gray, who was part of R. Kelly’s Public Announcement and played Rev. Henry Oliver in Tyler [...]

New York, NY - National recording artist LaShell Griffin will perform at The American Women in Radio & Television 34th Annual "Gracie Awards Show." The event celebrates the biggest names in radio/television from across the country and brings together the who's who within the industry. The impressive list of nominees/guests [...]

“I’ll Make It Someday”Luther Barnes & the Sunset JubilairesFrom the CD The Barnes Family Reunion IIAIR Gospel 2008www.malaco.comOne of gospel quartet’s finest gentlemen, Luther Barnes leads his Sunset Jubilaires on a slow-paced and melancholy but optimistic testimony to living a life of grace. Doing so will ensure that the eternal [...]

“I Don’t Know”T-JuanFrom the No Compromise Records CD The Arrival 2008www.nocompromiserecords.comOpening with faux snippets of radio reports about the shooting of sixteen year-olds in Jacksonville, Florida, religious rapper T-Juan’s “I Don’t Know” is a head shaker about the tragic consequences of street violence. The young victims, a boy and girl, [...]

RaisheinBelieveRaishein Productions 2008www.raishein.comHouston’s singer-songwriter Raishein sounds like she could be Damita Haddon’s younger sister. She has a soft, light and youthful voice that delivers simple praise and worship lyrics to a mostly RnB and pop electronic backdrop.Raishein’s debut album, Believe, was released early last month, and it’s a decent debut. [...]

“Butterfly”Candi StatonFrom the CD I Will Sing My Praise to YouEmtro Gospel 2008www.emtro.comCandi Staton may be better known to the general public as a 1970s disco queen, but she is no stranger to gospel music. Truth is, Candi cut her musical teeth as a member of the Jewell Gospel Trio, [...]

On Tuesday, March 3 from 10:30 to 11:30 p.m., BBC Radio 2 will air "Shout Sister Shout," a documentary on Sister Rosetta Tharpe narrated by Ruby Turner and written by Ged Gray.Bob Laughton reports that the documentary made the Radio Times (right).Chicagoans Elder Mack Mason and TBGB's Bob Marovich were [...]