Alisa CameronRainbow After the StormAlisa Cameron (2011)http://www.alisacameron.com/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Just south of Milwaukee is the city of Racine, Wisconsin, home to gospel singer Alisa Cameron. We first met Ms. Cameron in January 2010, when we reviewed her debut album, Seasons. She’s back with her sophomore release, [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.For some time, singer, songwriter and gospel artist manager Bridget Price had been toying with the idea of starting a gospel music podcast.“My family’s background is very musical,” Price explained. “My cousin, Christopher Wiley, is a musician and producer and he is also [...]
“I Hear the Sound (of Victory)”Maurette Brown ClarkFrom the forthcoming AIR CD The Sound of Victoryhttp://www.malaco.com/Recorded live at Calvary Revival Church in Norfolk, Virginia, “I Hear the Sound (of Victory)” is a playful, self-assured presentation by Maurette Brown Clark. Clark feels it in her bones: victory is just around the [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Yolanda Adams is one of gospel music's most effective multitaskers. She's a singer, songwriter, author, mother, syndicated radio host and recording artist. Now -- and it makes sense -- one of the best dressed gospel singers has become a clothes designer.The four-time GRAMMY-winning artist spent time with TBGB to discuss [...]
“Hold On”Kevin Terry & PredestinedFrom the forthcoming Kingdom Music Group CD Kevin Terry & Predestined LiveA relentless tempo thrusts Washington DC’s Kevin Terry & Predestined up the ladder of emotionality as the ensemble encourages God’s people to “just pray…God will arrest your stress.” The song is based on Galatians 6:9: don’t [...]
“God Has Been So Good”Pastor David Wright Presents the Rev. Timothy Wright Memorial ChoirFrom the God Father Records CD The Legacy Continues… (2011)www.gracetabernaclecogic.comThe New York Fellowship Mass Choir was renamed the Rev. Timothy Wright Memorial Choir in memory of the Godfather of Gospel, who died nine months after a 2008 [...]
Various Artists Noah Found Grace: A Compilation of Jamaican Gospel Music Social Music Record+Tape Club (2011) http://www.socialmusicrecords.com/ They cause crate diggers and on-line auction trawlers to pause in their pursuit. Seven-inch singles with unpretentious labels that contain selections by groups called the Heavenly Dreamers and the Joybells. Are these private presses [...]
“Mama Song”Karen Washington & the New Singing StarsFrom the Dream Reality Records CD Jesus Is Alive (2008)http://www.klwashington.com/On “Mama Song,” Karen Washington & the New Singing Stars render their ode of thanksgiving to a loving mother who taught the Golden Rule and how to survive during trying times. To a slow, quartet [...]
Various ArtistsI Have My Liberty! Gospel Sounds from Accra, Ghanahttp://www.ihavemyliberty.tumblr.com/I Have My Liberty! Gospel Sounds from Accra, Ghana combines the unconventionality of an Alan Lomax field recording with modern microphones and modern African congregations. Recorded between September and December of 2008 and released commercially by producer Calpin Hoffman-Williamson last month, [...]
“I Shall Live and Not Die”Darlene McCoyRKD Music 2011 (single available online May 17, 2011)http://www.rkdmusic.com/Gospel singer-songwriter Darlene McCoy’s new single, “I Shall Live and Not Die,” is evocative of Evanescence with its layers of sound, McCoy’s breathy vocals and a minimalist but insistent piano riff. It’s a lovely, haunting and [...]
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