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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
TBGB Founder and Editor-in-Chief Bob Marovich will be on The Music Box with Stellar Award-nominee Tanya Dallas-Lewis this Thursday, December 15 at 8:00 p.m. EST.Check the program out at www.blogtalkradio.com/the-music-box or listen from your phone: 646-652-2106.
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 [...]
