Rev. Joe Williams (Sons of the Birds, Dixie Hummingbirds) informed TBGB today that legendary quartet lead singers Clarence Fountain and Roscoe Robinson are interested in forming a new group of Blind Boys.They are specifically looking for two blind vocalists "who can really sing" to fill out the group. Know someone who fits [...]
“Journey to Salvation”Operation Faith, feat. Rev. Harold and VANN JohnsonRev. Harold and VANN Johnson make “Journey to Salvation,” a tender and understated contemporary praise ballad, sound like a lost recording by Rev. Al Green and Gladys Knight. The couple’s lovely duet – complete with parenthetical moans candied in southern soul [...]
Listen to the Eleventh Annual "Gospel Memories" Christmas Gospel Caravan that aired yesterday. One hour of vintage gospel holiday classics from artists such as Mahalia Jackson, Angelic Gospel Singers, Harmonizing Four, Pilgrim Travelers, and many more!Click here to stream the show: Gospel Memories.
Amber Bullock Thank YouMusic World Gospel (2011)www.musicworldgospel.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog. Amber Bullock is the latest gospel chanteuse to earn top accolades on BET’s popular Sunday Best, taking home the crown during Season Four.Bullock's debut CD, Thank You, is a seven-track EP with a smart song selection [...]
Jordan K. Phillips informed TBGB that Sister Emily Harris, a member of Bobby Jones and New Life and of the Nashville Super Choir, died this morning.Homegoing services will be held at Cathedral of Praise COGIC4300 Clarksville Pike Nashville TN 37218Wednesday, December 28th, 2011 7 PMIndustry MusicalThursday, December 29th, 2011 11 [...]
Genita PughMy PurposeEternity Records Company (2011)www.genitapugh.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Pastor Genita Pugh of Laurel, Mississippi is making waves in the gospel community with her newest release, My Purpose. As of this writing, the album, released by Eternity Records Company, is gracing the top twenty of Billboard’s Top [...]
“Joy to the World”Lenear Royalty (Featuring LANISE)From the CD It’s Christ Timewww.facebook.com/pages/Lenear-Royalty/115195695184211 Lenear Royalty’s daughter LANISE refashions the Christmas classic into a bouncy, rhythmic worship song that moves with the steady and urgent insistence of a television news program theme. The beat is at once airy and solid, like LANISE’s [...]
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 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 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 [...]
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