The Rance Allen GroupThe Live Experience IITyscot Records (release date: January 25, 2011)http://www.tyscot.com/When the Hawkins Family opened the door to contemporary sounds in gospel music, Rance Allen and his brothers walked through with their incendiary brand of funk and psychedelic arrangements. The group endured its share of quizzical looks from [...]
“Home for Christmas” and “The Countdown”Mike WinansFrom the CD A Mike Winans Christmas: Timeless NoelDoc Roc Entertainment, LLC (2010)http://www.mikewinans.com/Mike Winans, songwriter and senior producer for Bad Boy Records and former member of Winans Phase II, has chosen the Christmas season to release his first solo CD. Both singles from the CD, [...]
Washington, DC: The Excellence in Christian Music Awards (ECMA) has been created to equip Christian/Gospel music artists with the tools necessary to be successful in the music industry. Each year, independent Christian/Gospel artists participate in numerous award shows and programs with the hopes of winning coveted prizes and achieving industry [...]
Rev. Johnny L. JonesThe Hurricane that Hit AtlantaDust-to-Digital (2010)http://www.dust-digital.com/Rev. Johnny L. Jones of Atlanta is not nicknamed "Hurricane" for nothing. This passionate preacher summons the force of a mighty wind when he gets to singing, shouting, or delivering a message.Thanks to Lance Ledbetter and his marvelous Dust-to-Digital enterprise, more than [...]
“Saved Woman”Malcolm LittleU.G.N. Records (2010)http://www.ugnrecordsllc.com/Author Bernard Malamud wrote that we have two lives: the life we learn from and the life we live after we’ve learned.Malcolm (Little) Garner has led two lives. His first was as a ward of the state and a member of Chicago’s notorious Vice Lords gang, [...]
Special thanks to Marc Lindy, gospel radio announcer from Vancouver, for alerting TBGB about this article, from the Detroit Free Press. Ken Flaherty, Jr. and the Grammy Award-winning Archeophone Records have just released a two-CD reissue collection of rare cylinders of the Fisk University Jubilee Quartet. The set includes the only extant recording of [...]
“He Was Born”James “Kelly Fox!” Davis and A Bunch of FriendsFrom the CD The Best Gift (2010)http://www.kellyfoxonline.com/Keeping the gospel Christmas music coming...“He Was Born” is from James “Kelly Fox!” Davis and A Bunch of Friends’ debut CD, The Best Gift. This contemplative and delicate-to-exaltative contemporary gospel ballad elaborates on the [...]
CJ BallanceIf God Said ItGospel Visions Entertainment (2010)http://www.cjballance.com/You know times have changed when a gospel singer can trace his first public performance to day care, singing the theme song to the television show featuring Barney, the purple dinosaur.But that’s when Corey E. Ballance, Jr., known as CJ Ballance, first wowed [...]
“Jingle Bells”The Williams SingersFrom the BKS Music Group CD Blessed Christmas (2010)http://www.thewilliamssingers.com/Christmas cheer, quartet-style! The Indianapolis-based Williams Singers, a “new wave” quartet consisting of brothers Darnell, Dezmien, and Dezrale, inject additional lyrics, tuneful shouting, light-heartedness and at least one “I wish I had a witness” into the holiday chestnut. The [...]
Soul SeekersSoul Seekers IIMy Block Records/Malaco Music Group/Sovereign (2010)http://www.thesoulseekersmusic.com/The eight men who comprise the all-star collective the Soul Seekers are individually talented and award-winning artists in their own right, but as a group they are unstoppable.Their sophomore CD, the aptly-titled Soul Seekers II, was released last month and it is [...]
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