Gospel Music

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Joseph Bryant of the Birmingham News writes about the development of a new center and museum to honor Alabama's gospel music history.  If everything goes as planned, it will be housed in a ninety-year-old church, the former McCoy United Methodist Church, on Eighth Avenue West.Learn more here: Alabama Gospel Center.Photo [...]

Here is The Black Gospel Blog's "Best Of" for 2010.As in prior years, the lists are not necessarily based on a song or album's popularity or sales but on the sound, vision, talent and feeling. Also, only projects serviced to TBGB during the year are considered.Singles:1. "The Best in Me" [...]

The quartet community needs your prayers:Mama Curtis contacted TBGB with the news that Rev. Charlie Brown of the Violinaires was put on life support at a hospital in Conyers, Georgia.  He went into the hospital last Friday night.Meanwhile, Rev. Andrew Cheairs was hospitalized after he was in an automobile accident just [...]

“My Heart Says Yes”Troy SneedFrom the forthcoming Emtro CD My Heart Says Yes(estimated release: 2nd Qtr, 2011)http://www.emtro.com/On “My Heart Says Yes,” Emtro Records owner and gospel artist Troy Sneed reaches up into an off-the-stave falsetto to express his complete love for Jesus.Supporting Sneed is a simple, delicate ostinato melody with a Brazilian [...]

Pierre Walker and Various ArtistsProject: SanctifiedReunion Communion: A Celebration of 19th StreetAdmatha Records (2009)http://www.myspace.com/projectsanctifiedReviewed by Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Speaking of the Walker Family…In 2002, Pierre Walker, Rev. Clay Evans' organist and St. Sabina's associate minister of music, paid tribute to the family's Chicago roots on Rev. Clay Evans Presents [...]

“I Told Jesus”Jason WalkerFrom Just Like You (2008)http://www.jwalkmusic.com/Guitars snarl and flash like bolts of lightning, and bass rumbles like the roll of distant thunder as Jason Walker asks the Lord, in the spiritual "I Told Jesus," if He would change his name. Walker knows the price of discipleship, but the swirling, glowering [...]

Just FriendsFulfillmentLacy Boys Music (2010)www.myspace.com/justfriendsjfNot just any group, especially an emerging ensemble, can secure as major a gospel icon as Inez Andrews for its debut project.But Just Friends is not just any group. First, keyboardist extraordinare Richard Gibbs, Inez' son, is a member.  Second, the Chicago-based gospel group includes Gus and Chuck Lacy, Janice [...]

Leanne Faine & FavorServe the LordMusic Makers Recordings/Le’Riche Entertainment (2010)www.cdbaby.com/cd/LeanneFaineFavor1The album notes to Serve the Lord proclaim that Leanne Faine “is bringing church back to church music.” That she does.On her third solo release, Faine – famed soloist for the Thompson Community Singers and the voice of the choir's popular “The Holy Ghost," – [...]