“Real Real Mad” (prequel)FreshaunFrom Commercial Bricks: I.R.A. (2010)Commercial Bricks Records http://www.commercialbricks.wordpress.com/On the prequel to his single, “Real Real Mad,” Freshaun “Fresh” Porter puts all haters on alert: make him mad – “real real mad” – and see what happens. The self-proclaimed “King of Rap” from the Washington, DC area raps [...]
“You Are My Everything”Immeasurablehttp://www.immeasurablesings.com/Immeasurable, a female gospel trio, was formed in 2002 in Columbia, Maryland. Members are Ronnie Brooks, Yanna Foster, and Victoria Coleman. They sing in the style of Witness and RiZen.The vibrant hip hop-influenced “You Win” is Immeasurable's single, but I find their contemporary gospel selection,“You Are My [...]
“In the Heart of a Hero”Lee CooksFrom the Tate Music Group album Enlightened (2010)http://www.tatemusicgroup.com/“In the Heart of a Hero” is a faith-based tribute to veterans – alive and fallen – from contemporary gospel balladeer Lee Cooks, himself a veteran of the armed forces. The heartwarming song describes heroes as anyone [...]
Charles Martin Mary’s SonChuck’s Room 2010 http://www.charlesmartinmusic.com/ Praise and worship leader Charles Martin’s debut CD Mary’s Son is an outstanding example of the New Detroit gospel style. What is the New Detroit style, you ask? It’s that edgy-cool, electrifying, melodic, R&B-soaked sound that informs the work of Damita, Deitrick and [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.When you think of great cities for gospel music, what places come to mind? Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Houston, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Oakland...…Indianapolis?Yep. The capital of the Hoosier state has a special place in gospel music history. Beatrice Brown, one of the [...]
“Jesus is My Rock”Gaye ArbuckleFrom the CD Holy http://www.gayearbuckle.com/“Jesus is My Rock” is a traditional gospel blues hand-clapper given a seven plus-minute live workout by Dallas Texas-based Gaye Arbuckle. Accompanied by her church choir, the United Voices of Concord, the beauty pageant contestant and singer-songwriter with a distinctive shock of [...]
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3 CentralA Feelin’ Inside3 Central Management (2008)http://www.threecentral.com/Several years ago, saxophonist Russell Moore of St. Louis recruited his multi-instrumentalist brother Everett and keyboardist Ken Anderson to perform as a wedding band. The trio began picking up more gigs, morphed into 3 Central, and in 2002 was named St. Louis’s Best Contemporary [...]
Anne’ DuBois and her brothers Kenneth and Jonathan, Jr. began compiling a patron’s program to distribute at the 70th birthday celebration of their father, Jonathan “Papa Joe” DuBose, Sr. of the Sensational Starlights quartet. But the more Anne’ researched and contributed information to the program, the more the project “took on a life [...]
Outreach 24/7Get Off the Pew (2010)http://www.outreach247.com/If Sly and the Family Stone had produced a gospel album, I suspect it would have sounded like the first half of Get Off the Pew.This new CD by the Washington, DC ensemble Outreach 24/7 is the very definition of “praise party,” or in the terminology [...]
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