“I Wish I Knew Back Then”Temika MooreFrom the EP The End of Mewww.temikamoore.com“I Wish I Knew Back Then” is sophisticated, soulful, and well-choreographed singing from Washington DC’s Temika Moore, who sounds every bit a vocal veteran as she evokes a lower-register Whitney Houston in her dramatic reading of the lyrics [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.A month before his senior class graduated from high school, Gerald Scott penned a song for the choir to sing at the commencement ceremony. Scott told TBGB: “It was 2003, I was eighteen years old, and I wrote a song called ‘Destiny’ for [...]
Leona DanielsFree To Be MeLe’Core Records and Entertainment (2012)www.leonadanielsministries.orgTalk with Houstonians who grew up in the African American church and you will hear them speak nostalgically of a local pastor named Rev. W. Leo Daniels. Daniels was a talented preacher, singer, television host, and recording artist who died way too [...]
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Apostle J.L. Cash & PraiseI Need to Hear from YouMCG Records (2007)www.mcggospel.comApostle J.L. Cash evokes the soulful delivery of Teddy Pendergrass, James Brown, and a host of hard-singing quartet leads on his 2007 CD, I Need to Hear from You.The Pendergrass comparison occurs, naturally, during the ensemble’s gospelization of the [...]
“Lord You’ve Been So Good”Amber BullockFrom the forthcoming CD So In Love(available July 12, 2012)www.musicworldgospel.comBut for the grace of God, “I could have been dead, sleeping in my grave,” sings Amber Bullock, BET Sunday Bestchamp and Music World Gospel recording artist. Death, and a litany of lesser ills, could have been [...]
“I Give You My Praise”Angie HallFrom Beyond Expectations…Thoughts from an Unspoken MindAngie Hall Music (2011)www.angiehallmusic.com“I Give You My Praise” is a brisk, mid-tempo praiser with power pop propulsion, featuring steamy electric guitar licks and pounding drums. Hall’s shouting vocals come from gospel while the melody and musicianship sound rooted in CCM. [...]
“Rain & Glory Medley”Earnest PughBlacksmoke Music Worldwide (2012)Available at online music storesDuring the Stellar Awards television program, Gospel’s Leading Man Earnest Pugh combined his top hits, “Rain on Me” and “I Need Your Glory,” into a band box-neat medley. Fans loved it so much they persuaded him to enter the studio [...]
Charlie Trotter & the Beat DownRun Onhttp://charlietrotter.bandcamp.com/“I'm a slightly doughy, white dad from the suburbs, but my guts are old, and not from around here.”So says Charlie Trotter, head musician of the Fort Worth Texas-based roots group Charlie Trotter & the Beat Down. I can’t speak for the provenance of [...]
Last December, TBGB spoke with BET's Sunday Best champ and Music World Gospel artist Amber Bullock. This month, we catch up with the singer-songwriter-mom who, since we last spoke, has released two singles and an EP. She is now about to launch her first full-length solo CD, So In Love, on [...]
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