Various ArtistsWings Over the City of Angels: A Los Angeles Gospel CollectionCity of Angels Music Group (2012)www.pewburner.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Although the UK-based Acrobat Music dissolved some years ago, historian Opal Nations has maintained its exploration of gospel music under his own imprints. For example, Nations has compiled [...]
Valorie BelkGod ReligionsSharp Recordswww.sharprecordsusa.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Valorie Belk, a singer born in Tampa but now living in Atlanta, has old-school chops. She's a quieter, more pensive version of COGIC singers Emily Bram-Bibby and Madame Ernestine Washington. In other words, if Bram and Washington were trumpets, Belk [...]
“Fire”Nevaeh’s Angelwww.nevaehsangel.netNevaeh’s Angel (heaven spelled backwards) is a 23-year-old singer, songwriter, rapper and actress from South West London. She is working on her album, Living the Vision, which she hopes to complete this year. In the meantime, she is helping youth to escape the ravages of substance abuse and gun [...]
Wincey Time to Say Winceyco Music (2012) www.winceycomusic.com By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog. “I’m musically inclined to sing the songs that glorify.” So croons singer-songwriter Wincey Terry-Bryant on the title track of her self-produced Time to Say, an album she began recording in 2008. The songs, she [...]
CD PorterDeclarationFresh Oil Entertainment (2012)www.CDPortermusic.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.CD Porter is a singer, songwriter, producer, musician, and Worship Director for New Life Anointed Ministries of Woodbridge, Virginia. He is also among the current bumper crop of male P&W stylists whose lineage can be traced, whether they know [...]
“Lay It Down”Troy SneedFrom the forthcoming Emtro Gospel CD All is Well (available August 7, 2012)www.troysneed.netGospel singer-songwriter and label owner Troy Sneed has a way with a song. His latest single, “Lay It Down,” is a hypnotic-to-rocking call to set one’s problems and pain at the foot of the Lord. [...]
Today, July 16, vocal group Soul Tempo debuts the music video for "Trust in God" via its YouTube channel, Soul Tempo Music TV.The video depicts the story of one man who learns that God can restore and show Himself mighty through any situation. Soul Tempo's goal for the video is for [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Talk with Jeremiah “Jerry” Brunson of Soul Tempo for one minute and you can't help but become infected with his genuine joy of life.There are lots of reasons Brunson is happy, not the least of which is the success of Soul Tempo. The New [...]
Charles Jenkins & Fellowship Chicago The Best of Both Worlds EMI Gospel/Inspired People (2012) www.emigospel.com By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog. It could not have been easy for Charles Jenkins to succeed the iconic Rev. Dr. Clay Evans as Pastor of Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago. Evans, [...]
On Thursday, July 12, TBGB's Bob Marovich had a chance to visit with Mary Wiley James and members of her family in Decatur, Georgia.Ms. James was a member of the Velvet-aires, a sought-after arranger for artists such as the Ward Singers and the Davis Sisters, and a backup vocalist for [...]
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