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 [...]
The legendary Sweet Honey in the Rock will appear at Chicago's Christ Universal Temple Sunday, December 5. Tickets for this powerful performance are going FAST! Visit www.champagneconnection.com and click events, or call 800-595-4TIX /TTY 800-526-0844 to purchase yours TODAY! (service charges apply). Get a special 10% discount if you use the promo code: memories at check out! Offer expires December 3, 2010 [...]
3 Central @almahussein28A 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 [...]
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 [...]
“He’s Been Faithful”Elder E.L. WilliamsAvailable on http://www.amazon.com/Elder E.L. Williams of Philadelphia is a bass who sings sub-basement notes with the ease of Jimmy Jones and Dickie Freeman while crooning like Bishop Charles Watkins. In fact, after hearing him, Philly radio personality Linda Timmons of WHAT nicknamed the smooth-as-silk singer the [...]
“Prayer is the Key”The Alabama BoysMalaco/4 Winds Records (2010)http://www.thealabamaboys.org/I’m going against the grain here, because “Never Alone” is the single that the Montgomery-based Alabama Boys are promoting. It is a well-rendered, soulful, muscular contemporary quartet piece about believing in God’s unchanging hand. It will make a fine single.But as for [...]
“Yesterday is on a Missile”PKFrom the CD 7UPhttp://www.pkallday.com/PK is Ace, Motown and Finance, a three-man urban group based in Atlanta and Los Angeles. They met at Georgia State University and after graduation entered -- but eventually escaped from -- Corporate America, finding their life’s passion in the groove of Christian [...]
January 2011 promises to be a special month for gospel music.In addition to the 26th Annual Stellar Awards…On January 14, 2011, BMI will honor gospel music artists Commissioned and Pastor Shirley Caesar (right) at its 12th Annual Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards Luncheon.The event will be held one day before [...]
