Jawn Murray Presents UNTAPPED
Various ArtistsJawn Murray Presents UNTAPPEDEMI Gospel (2011)http://www.emigospel.com/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Last February, Jawn Murray, the popular Washington DC-based on-air entertainment reporter for the Tom Joyner Morning Show and a columnist for AOL Black Voices, called all unsigned gospel artists to participate in his UNTAPPED competition. Produced in [...]
Micah Stampley – One Voice
Micah StampleyOne VoiceMusic World Gospel/Interface Entertainment (2011)http://www.musicworldent.com/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.“Different colors, many expressions/But when we worship, we sing to an audience of one.”So sings Micah Stampley, his vocal arms outstretched, like Bono, in universal embrace on the title track and current single of his new CD [...]
Forty Years Later, The Sounds of Blackness is Still Flying High
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.This evening at 6:00 p.m., at the Mall of America’s Best Buy Rotunda in Bloomington, Minnesota, Malaco Music Group Recording Artists the Sounds of Blackness will be hosting a free 30 minute concert. It is one of the activities surrounding the release of [...]
TBGB Pick of the Week: October 17, 2011
“I Love to Praise Him”Mississippi Mass ChoirFrom the Malaco CD …Then Sings My Soul (2011)www.malaco.comYou have to love the gritty authenticity of Mosie “Mama” Burks (pictured left) as she leads the Mississippi Mass Choir on “I Love to Praise Him,” a neo-traditional congregational sing and clap along. Burks channels the [...]
Trish Standley – Redemption
Trish Standley Redemption (private press) www.jansjoy.net By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog. Redemption presents the listener with an unspoken assignment: which side of gospel singer-songwriter Trish Standley do you like best? Is it the bright, chirpy and optimistic R&B side, exemplified on the hard-charging opening track, “Cheer Up,” [...]
Shirley Murdock – Live: The Journey
Shirley Murdock Live: The Journey Tyscot Records (available October 18, 2011) http://www.tyscot.com/ By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog. Shirley Murdock invigorates her first live recording, Live: The Journey, with the atmosphere of an old fashioned revival. Live: The Journey finds Murdock sassily interjecting Shirley Caesar-style evangelism and mother wit [...]
Prestigious 1 – “Living the Life”
“Living the Life”Prestigious 1T1MG: The One Music Group (2011)http://www.prestigious1.org/North Carolina-Based Prestigious 1 is Min. Quincy W. King, Sr.; Will R. “Big Will” Jones II.; and Maurice Robinson. The three men sing with a contemporary flavor, like Commissioned meets Men of Standard.Their “Living the Life” is a friendly and positive testimony, [...]
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