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 [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.The leadership and staff of the Gospel Music Workshop of America Quartet Division honored several gospel legends at its banquet Wednesday, July 11, at Nashville's Gaylord Opryland Hotel.Among the honorees were:Evelyn Turrentine-Agee ("The Queen of Quartet")Dr. Andrew Cheairs and the SongbirdsThe Fairfield FourAmbassador [...]
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“Bless the Name of the Lord”Bishop K.W. Brown PresentsEarl Bynum and The Mount UnityChoir – LIVEwww.themountunitychoir.comEarl Bynum leads The Mount Unity Choir on an anthemic mid-tempo worship selection that draws lyrically from Isaiah 9:6 and Psalm 103. Bynum’s expressive tenor is a fine companion to the rich-voiced choir, which has the [...]
“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 [...]
