Darryl HenryRelationshipsRhema Records, Inc.www.DarrylHenry.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Sacred love songs are the rage these days. Fred Hammond’s recent two-disc Love, God & Romance put it all in perspective. Kevin Levar’s wedding-day ballad, “We’re Just Getting Started,” was made into a single. The most popular essay on TBGB is [...]
Troy SneedAll Is WellEmtro Records (2012)www.troysneed.netBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.If, to paraphrase the subtitle of Anthony Heilbut’s The Gospel Sound, gospel music is good news in bad times, Troy Sneed’s All Is Well fits the definition.Snuggled in on Sneed's new album, among a handful of songs expressing [...]
“Dig In Me”P.J. aka Pastor JonesTBGB last caught up with former Def Jam veep J.E. Jones in 2010, when he had released his gospel album, Fire. You may know his story: after much success in the music business, Jones, 24, felt a tremendous void in his life. He gave his life to [...]
Apostle Ronnie “Diamond” HoardAll About Hymn – Guitar Jazz (2012)By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel BlogIn the liner notes to All About Hymn - Guitar Jazz, Apostle Ronnie “Diamond” Hoard writes that he “finally stepped from behind the mic to infuse traditional hymns with smooth contemporary jazz.”That is exactly [...]
“So Good”Half Mile HomeFrom the forthcoming CDChurch Musik & Inspiration (release date: November 6, 2012)Billy Preston may be gone but his spirit lives on in “So Good,” the latest single by Ohio’s own gospel ensemble Half Mile Home. The group takes Preston’s 1974 “Nothing From Nothing” and, while retaining its funkiness, [...]
Pastor Van D. Roberson All the Days of My Life (2012) www.cdbaby.com/cd/pastorvanroberson3 By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog Pastor Van D. Roberson’s CD All the Days of My Life could easily be subtitled Pastor Van D. Roberson and Friends. The Texas-based minister summons an army of ministers, singers, [...]
Harriet VanderpoolI Can…Tate Music Group (2010)www.tatemusicgroup.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Virginia-born Harriet Vanderpool is a praise and worship leader for Victory Life Ministries in Chesapeake, Virginia. She has also spent time directing choirs and singing on the stage. I Can... is her latest solo project.The album opens with [...]
“Gotta Praise Him (Sing Hallelujah)”Laird Sillimon & CovenantFrom the Sillimon Sound CD The One Godwww.sillimonsound.comLaird Sillimon & Covenant offer an uptempo choir number like they used to do ‘em: a class-A tambourine-shaker and hand-clapper, with the vibrant Nichole Evans on lead vocals. When Evans lets out a “Whew!” at the end, [...]
Gregory Gay of GOSPELflava.com reported this morning on the passing of Rev. Benjamin Cone, Jr. Rev. Cone was the road pastor and director of the spiritual advisory council for the Mississippi Mass Choir.Read more here: Rev. Benjamin Cone, Jr.
In September 1932, Thomas A. Dorsey wrote "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" to express the profound grief he felt over the loss of his wife Nettie and day-old son Thomas Jr. the previous month.Dorsey's gospel song was embraced from the first time he introduced it at Chicago's Ebenezer Baptist Church. [...]
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