Gospel Music

MarvalinnThunder of PraiseMarvalous Music (2011)http://www.marvalinn.com/Marvalinn is marvelous.For her sophomore project, Thunder of Praise, the native Detroiter draws on CCM, gospel, and pop to express her religious emotions.Marvalinn's songs are uniformly friendly, simple and melodic. She is a superb songwriter and singer whose voice is pleasant and pop-influenced, a sound one [...]

Judith Christie McAllisterSound the TrumpetShanachie Entertainment (2011)http://www.shanachie.com/by Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Judith Christie McAllister’s Sound the Trumpet is her fourth CD but first in five years. In the years since the release of In His Presence, the President of the Church of God in Christ International Music Department [...]

Kevin Terry and Predestined Kevin Terry and Predestined LiveKingdom Music Group (2011)http://www.kevinterryandpredestined.com/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.In May, TBGB reviewed “Hold On,” the single by Kevin Terry and Predestined. The group’s full project, released by Kingdom Music Group, is now available.On Kevin Terry and Predestined Live, Kevin “Music Pastor” Terry leads an emotionally-charged [...]

Chuck and the Guiding CloudsChangeJ Fam Music, Inc.http://www.chuckandtheguidingclouds.com/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.During “God’s Love,” the final selection on their new album Change, Chuck and the Guiding Clouds offer a dose of reality about the gospel highway, and in the process deliver a mini-workshop for aspiring gospel artists.The [...]

“I’ll Go”Eddie Ruth BradfordFrom the album Jesus is Coming Backwww.eddieruthbradfordmusic.comEddie Ruth Bradford moans a simple, old-fashioned gospel as piano, organ and female vocal group accompany in wordless, antiphonal assent. When she sings, “I may be weary/I’ll go…send me,” you feel every ounce of exhaustion, every body-ache, in her tone. You [...]

Rev. Joe Williams informed TBGB that pastor, musician, composer, professor and author Rev. Dr. Charles Walker passed away Sunday, August 21 in Philadelphia.A relative of Mahalia Jackson, Dr. Walker was among the early musician leaders of Rev. Dr. Clay Evans' Fellowship M.B. Church in Chicago.  He was a professor at Southern University in [...]

The first three persons to email TBGB at bob@gospelmemories.com with the correct answer to the following question will win superstar Kim Burrell's The Love Album, courtesy of Shanachie Entertainment.Q: What’s the name of the fellowship in Houston, Texas where Mrs. Burrell is pastor? THE CONTEST IS OVER! CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR THREE WINNERS:- Tammy Carpenter- Keith [...]

Eddie RobinsonThis is My Story, This is My SongThe Sirens Records (2011)www.thesirensrecords.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Eddie Robinson isn’t a household name in gospel music, but he should be.For decades, his keyboard work has supported a chapel full of Chicago gospel singers, most notably the first Queen of [...]

And she was: Dorothy Norwood appeared as part of the Malaco Records showcase during the 2011 GMWA Quartet Division celebration last night at the Tampa Convention Center. Monica Lisa Stevenson and Gloretta McNeil prepare to join in as Dorothy Norwood sings a tribute to Albertina Walker. Norwood sang a tribute [...]

By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Quartets were there before gospel, they're here today, and will still be around tomorrow!That was the sentiment Wednesday evening, August 17, as the Brooklyn All Stars, Five Singing Stars, Spencer Taylor & the Highway QCs, Sensational Nightingales, and Violinaires were honored at the [...]