“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 Pugh Blacksmoke Music Worldwide (2012) Available at online music stores During 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 [...]
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 [...]
Rev. Joe Williams of Philadelphia informed TBGB that quartet legend Ernest James died two days ago in California.James sang tenor with the Sensational Nightingales and the Dixie Hummingbirds during the early 1950s.
Karen Washington and the New Singing StarsJesus is My EverythingDream Reality Records (2004)www.karenlwashington.comKaren Washington’s CDs never fail to transport me to times when I have driven through the Mid-South and listened to gospel quartet music on local AM radio stations. Only I’m usually in a rental car where the radio [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Attention gospel music fans who are runners (or runners-in-training):Getting ready for a marathon? A half-marathon? A 10K? Running for a charity, racing to win, or to improve your health and fitness?TBGB (a veteran marathoner) has beta-tested this music mix and finds it an [...]
“Grace”Stephen HurdFrom the CD O That Men Would Worship (2012)http://www.hurdthewordmusic.com/Introspective ballad on how complicated life could be “if it had not been for grace.” Stephen Hurd sounds delivered from a mighty trial that took its toll as he ruminates wearily but thoughtfully on the saving power of grace. At the key [...]
