Gospel Music

The SojournersThe SojournersBlack Hen Music 2009www.blackhenmusic.comVancouver is on everyone’s minds these days as the Winter Olympics start today, but there’s another reason to focus attention on this wonderful city. It’s a quartet – technically a trio – called the Sojourners. The Sojourners are Will Sanders, Ron Small and Marcus Mosely. [...]

Julia RoystonFor Your Glory Lord: Concert DVDJuju 4ee Publishingwww.juliaroyston.comJeffersonville, Indiana sits on the north bank of the Ohio River. Louisville, Kentucky gazes across from the south bank. On May 24, 2009, folks from both banks gathered to attend gospel singer Julia Royston’s musical, For Your Glory Lord, and it was [...]

Jerry and Val Griffis of I Am Magazine reported that Bishop A.T. Moore, Jurisdictional Prelate Emeritus of the Kentucky 1st Jurisdiction of the Church of God in Christ, passed away. According to his bio, Bishop Moore, who was born in 1911, was the "last living, active Jurisdictional Bishop in the [...]

Various ArtistsWOW Gospel 2010Verity Records www.wowgospelonline.comI have been an ardent follower of the WOW Gospel series since its debut in February, 1998. Back then, I was not as heavily involved in the gospel music industry as I am now, so the collection was a way to keep current on who [...]

Marvin Lyles, who invited me to be a guest on his "Gospel Sunrise" program this past Sunday (WGVE 88.7 FM - Gary, IN), lent me this photo to share with you.The photo was taken at the American Gospel Quartet Convention in Birmingham, Alabama on January 22, 2010, and shows Lyles [...]

“The Great I Am”Donnie McClurkinFrom the Verity Records CD We All Are One (Live in Detroit) - 2009www.verityrecords.comDonnie McClurkin laces up his shouting shoes and leads his energetic vocalists and the live audience in Detroit through a rollicking, hand-clapping old-school sounding praise workout that is actually one of his own [...]

Paulis SanchezSeguro En TiOxygeno Musica 2007www.paulissanchez.comIt’s evident that gospel music is an international phenomenon when a Colombian-born Latina living in Toronto, Canada sings a Walter Hawkins song in Spanish. And it works.Meet the lovely and talented Paulis Sanchez.Sanchez, who for years has led the bi-lingual worship services at her home [...]

From a press release:BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA TO PERFORM AT WHITE HOUSE FOR PRESIDENT AND MRS. OBAMAConcert Airs on PBS February 11thAlso Features Bob Dylan, John Legend, Seal, Jennifer Hudson, John Mellencamp, Natalie Cole and Smokey RobinsonFairfax, VA (January, 2010) -- The Blind Boys of Alabama have been invited to [...]

Various Artists Shoutin’ Down the AislesTime Life/Sony Music Entertainment 2009www.timelife.comOn the two-CD version of Time Life’s Shoutin’ Down the Aisles, the effervescent Donnie McClurkin declares to the congregation: “We talk a lot about gospel music but I come to find out the things that we’re singing really nowadays aren’t really [...]

“Try”Charise MilesFrom the Bajada Records CD Charise Miles (2009)I heard Smokie Norful say recently that gospel is the music of hope and encouragement. If so, then “Try,” the single by Detroit’s lovely Charise Miles, is literally by the book. Here, amidst relentlessly bouncy, high-energy R&B, Miles provides a litany of [...]