“Still I Will Trust You”Susan QuintyneFrom the Prazsung Records CD Worthy of Worship (2011)http://www.prazsung.com/One of the lead singers for the multi award-winning Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, Susan Quintyne has a voice that contains notes of gospel, pop and Broadway that together produce a crystal-clear sound that could melt the polar ice cap. [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Ascension, J. Spence's third CD and first for the Arizona-based Diversity Music Group, is garnering attention, but he's not an overnight success. Spence told TBGB last week that while his evolution as a Christian hip hop artist began casually, it has required years of [...]
“Lord I Thank You”Eric SimmonsFrom the Flow Music & Entertainment CD Freedom (2011)Eric Simmons walked away from a secular music career to pursue a calling to the ministry. Now serving as Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Paschall in Philadelphia, Simmons is also back in music – gospel [...]
Karen Washington & the New Singing StarsTalk to JesusQuartet City Records (2011)http://www.quartetcityrecords.com/Talk to Jesus is the latest release by Bainbridge, Georgia female quartet Karen Washington & the New Singing Stars, and it’s their best project to date. Released on Rev. Moses Belton, Sr.’s Quartet City Records, Talk to Jesus is [...]
Ron Barrett told TBGB today that his cousin, the legendary DeLois Barrett Campbell, passed from labor to reward today at noon. Starting her career as part of the Barrett and Hudson Singers, Ms. Campbell was among the first female vocalists to join the ranks of the Roberta Martin Singers. Her soprano [...]
“Through Merciful Eyes”Keith Pringle From the Platform Music Group CD Nothing Too Hard for God (2010)“Through Merciful Eyes” is a simple, slow-paced, antiphonal gospel from Keith Pringle. The lyrics praise the God of second chances and serve as Pringle’s own testimony.During one portion of the performance, Pringle describes the glimmer of [...]
TBGB's Bob Marovich had an opportunity to talk with multi-award-winning gospel artist Richard Smallwood about his musical influences, inspiration for writing, and the new album, Promises.TBGB: Talk about your recent hiatus from writing and recording.RS: My mother passed in 2005. After that, my world just sort of stood still, just dealing [...]
Various ArtistsMedicine – Live at the Black Academy of Arts and LettersMCG Records (release date: August 16, 2011)http://www.mcgrecords.com/In October 2010, artists a-plenty participated in a concert to raise operating support for Dallas’s Black Academy of Arts and Letters, a nonprofit organization founded by Curtis King in 1977 that is now the largest [...]
“Jesus, My Everything”The Pat Jones ProjectFrom The Pat Jones Project With Family and Friends (2008)www.cdbaby.com/cd/PatJonesHailing from Randallstown, Maryland, Pat Jones and her ensemble sing the stems off the notes on this lovely, flowing traditional-style worshipper with Richard Smallwood-esque majestic flourishes at the conclusion. Jones is a singer, songwriter, choir director, [...]
Donald Lawrence & Co.YRM (Your Righteous Mind)Quietwater/Verity (release date: August 9, 2011)http://www.verityrecords.com/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Those enchanted by the GRAMMY- and Stellar Award-winning Donald Lawrence’s previous work will appreciate that YRM (Your Righteous Mind) follows artistically in the footsteps of his most immediate predecessors, The Law of Confession Part [...]
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