Thanks to Joe James of the Voices of Clouds and quartet promoter Mama Curtis and for information on the passing of Alfred "Gino" Smith, longtime member of the Gospel Keynotes.Smith died in Rochester, NY on April 2, 2011.Joe pointed us to the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester for information on the homegoing [...]
Mark WilliamsEverythingATAP Music Group (in stores June 2011)http://www.drmarkawilliams.com/As a board-certified Otolaryngologist (ear, nose and throat physician), Dr. Mark Williams knows a thing or two about the voice.Including how to sing with it.Turns out the founder of the Voice Care Center of Nashville is also an artist and a good one. [...]
“I Need You Lord”Pam GreenFrom the CD In His Presence (2011)http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pam-Green-In-His-Presence/108086825893(Available as a download on iTunes and other digital media outlets)“I Need You Lord” is a well-produced and passionately delivered call for healing from St. Louis’s Pam Green and a bevy of background vocalists. Towards the end of the contemporary [...]
TBGB was saddened to hear of two losses impacting the quartet community:Alfred “Gino” Smith of the Gospel Keynotes passed away in Rochester, NY.Claude Ligon, the brother of Joe Ligon (Mighty Clouds of Joy) also passed away and will be funeralized in Los Angeles this Saturday.Please keep the Smith and Ligon [...]
Twinkie ClarkWith HumilityLarry Clark Gospel (in stores April 5, 2011)www.larryclarkgospel.com/twinkieFollowing a few years’ recording hiatus, Elbernita “Twinkie” Clark of the Clark Sisters today released a solo project, With Humility. "This project actually started out as me producing a couple of instrumentals for my aunt Twinkie to use as accompaniment for concerts [...]
“For All We Know”Jeff MajorsFrom the CD/DVD Sacred Epistles (2011)http://www.jeffmajors.com/Sacred harpist and television host Jeff Majors transforms the 1934 Broadway gem by J. Fred Coots and Sam Lewis into an atmospheric worship ballad that is unlike any cover of the song I’ve ever heard.Al Johnson provides a marvelous crooning lead vocal [...]
From the Associated Press:CHICAGO — The on-again, off-again reconstruction of a landmark Chicago church known as the birthplace of gospel music is on again.Church leaders have announced work to rebuild the fire-ravaged Pilgrim Baptist Church will begin in earnest this summer.A 2006 fire ignited by workers repairing the roof devastated [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Gospel music is, by its very nature, forward-looking, anticipatory. Gospel songs are about keeping the faith and having hope, awaiting blessings, knowing that “troubles don’t last always” and preparing for that Great Day in the Morning. The Gospel Train is moving and if you don’t [...]
Terry MyrickShow Me the WaySweet Melody Records (2011)http://www.terrymyrick.com/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel BlogShow Me the Way is gospel artist and off-Broadway talent Terry Myrick’s sophomore solo release on his own imprint, Sweet Melody Records.The album’s opening selections, such as “He Is” and “It’s Going to Be All Right,” [...]
God bless writer-producer Vy Higgensen for preserving gospel music as an American art form while using the genre to help young people connect with, and become enriched by, their cultural heritage. The Gospel for Teens Program is a program of The Mama Foundation for the Arts and Vy's Higginsen's School of Gospel, Jazz and [...]
