JGM Pick of the Week: February 13, 2023
“I Wanna Say Thank You” James Grear & Company feat. Maurette Brown Clark Blacksmoke Music Worldwide (release date: October 7, 2022)
“I Wanna Say Thank You” James Grear & Company feat. Maurette Brown Clark Blacksmoke Music Worldwide (release date: October 7, 2022)
The Kergyma Community Choir’s “It Is Well” is inspired by and has the same message, but is not the same piece as, the classic nineteenth-century hymn that begins, “When peace like a river…”
The muscular-voiced Hurd who leads the call-and-response with the background vocalists on this rhythmically undulating song of praise.
“Speak to the Mountain” Angela Moss Poole 141st Lane Music/DarkChild Gospel (2022)
Picks: “Step Back and Watch Him Work,” “When All God’s Children (Mom’s Song)” (bonus track)
“Ain’t Nothin’ But a Cloud” Mariah Hlatywayo From the EP Ain't Nothin' But a Cloud (release date: October 22, 2022)
Johnny Ruffin Jr.Just Johnny (EP)JBP Music (release date: July 23, 2022)By Robert M. MarovichAlthough the EP Just Johnny is a solo outing for North Carolina’s Johnny Ruffin Jr., it has a quartet sensibility to it. Ruffin has a quartet lead singer’s vocal intensity, complete with growls, evangelistic shouts, and flights [...]
Chesapeake, VA -- Dr. Earl Bynum is a Stellar award-winning singer, songwriter, and choir director who has a syndicated radio show, "On Stage With Earl Bynum," and a new television show of the same name.He wears many hats as a record label executive of Lrae Entertainment and the Executive Director [...]
Anointed Sounds Records (release date: August 5, 2022)
For as often as I’ve heard Chicago gospel singer Sylvia Fedrick, it didn’t strike me until listening to her EP Syl’s Combo 2022 that if you close your eyes, you would swear you are listening to a male high tenor like Maxwell or Prince.