Gospel Music

Joyce Spencer – Sweet Dreams

2014-07-21T21:53:07-05:00December 19th, 2011|

Joyce SpencerSweet Dreams HIM Records (2010)www.HIMRP.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Joyce Spencer has sax appeal.Undaunted by the insufficient music training available in the small town where she grew up, Spencer learned clarinet, flute, and tenor and alto sax, and emerged with a degree from McNeese State University in [...]

Le’Andria Johnson – Christmas Best

2014-07-21T21:53:07-05:00December 17th, 2011|

Le’Andria JohnsonChristmas BestMusic World Gospel (2011)www.musicworldgospel.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Capitalizing on the wave of interest in BET Sunday Best champ Le’Andria Johnson and the success of her debut EP, Music World Gospel has released her Christmas EP, Christmas Best.While her debut, The Awakening of Le’Andria Johnson, is [...]

“I Tried Jesus” – The Jackson Sisters

2014-07-21T21:53:07-05:00December 16th, 2011|

“I Tried Jesus”The Jackson Sisters From the Four Winds CD I Tried Jesus (2011)http://www.malaco.com/On “I Tried Jesus,” the Anointed Jackson Sisters of Goldsboro, North Carolina offer a hard-shouting, altar-pacing, floor-pounding traditional ode to the power of Jesus in their lives. The live performance from a program in Rocky Mount, North [...]

The Nevels Sisters – It’s My Time (New Traditional Thump)

2014-07-21T21:53:07-05:00December 16th, 2011|

The Nevels SistersIt’s My Time (New Traditional Thump)Squeekey Entertainment/MoLife Entertainment (2011)www.thenevelssisters.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.The Nevels Sisters – April, Debra, Gail and Veneice – have what it takes to be the new Clark Sisters. Individually and collectively talented and adorned with style, the sisters sparkle on their [...]

A Life’s Work Blog Features TBGB’s Top Ten Gospel Recordings of All Time

2014-07-21T21:53:07-05:00December 14th, 2011|

Special thanks to documentarian and filmmaker David Licata of A Life's Work for featuring my top ten favorite gospel recordings of all time.Check it out here: A Life's Work BlogAt right: TBGB's Bob Marovich hosting "Gospel Memories" at WLUW FM in Chicago.  Photo credit - Laurel Delaney.

“Thank You” – Amber Bullock

2014-07-21T21:53:07-05:00December 14th, 2011|

“Thank You”Amber BullockFrom the Music World Gospel EP Thank You (2011)http://www.musicworldgospel.com/BET’s Sunday Best Season Four champ Amber Bullock "Amberizes" this Walter Hawkins selection, making it her first single and the title of her debut CD, released last week. To a punchy arrangement with thumping bass and vigorous background vocalists, Bullock surveys the day's social problems [...]

The Quebec Celebration Gospel Choir – Noel Divin

2014-07-21T21:53:07-05:00December 13th, 2011|

The Quebec Celebration Gospel ChoirNoel Divin (2011)http://www.gospelcelebration.qc.ca/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.The inter-cultural Quebec Celebration Gospel Choir sounds ready-made to sing Christmas songs. The group’s new album, Noel Divin, proves that it’s so.If you have not heard the Quebec Celebration Gospel Choir (Le Choeur Gospel Celebration), it has [...]

TBGB Pick of the Week: December 12, 2011

2014-07-21T21:53:07-05:00December 12th, 2011|

“God is With Us”Carrol HallFrom the CD Songs that Sing You to Silence (2011)Email contact: hallc333@yahoo.com.auSouth African-born singer-songwriter Carrol Hall immigrated with her family to Perth, Western Australia in the 1980s to escape the oppressive apartheid government. Since the fall of apartheid, Hall has returned time and again to minister [...]

Shree Newman-Isabell – Life of a Worshipper

2014-07-21T21:53:07-05:00December 11th, 2011|

Shree Newman-IsabellLife of a Worshipper (2011)http://www.shreeisabell.com/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Recorded live at the Gallatin Campus of Long Hollow Baptist Church, Life of a Worshipper is the debut CD for singer-songwriter Shree Newman-Isabell, the Tennessee native known as Nashville’s “best kept secret.” The first few songs on the [...]

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