“Victory”VIZHIONFrom the forthcoming Rimshot Records CD Pressin' Onwww.myspace.com/vizhionVIZHION is a male contemporary gospel group from Houston, Texas that can also do traditional when the spirit moves and the congregation requests. Larry Burton, Marlon Mack, and Stan Alexander handle the vocals, and James Smith lays down the bass.The engaging, uptempo single [...]
Photo, Remembrance and Funeral Service Information Courtesy of Pastor Mack C. Mason:PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE FOR HOMEGOING SERVICES!The Charles Harrison Mason Historical Society of the Church of God in Christ mourns the loss of its founder and International President Elder Norvell Woolfolk of Chicago, IL.Elder Woolfolk passed away this [...]
Mp3 Player Recommendations...now on TBGB!Starting today, with the James Grear & Company review (below), TBGB will recommend specific song(s) to include on your iPod or mp3 player from the full-length albums it reviews.So scroll to the bottom of each review after October 6, 2009 to find out what to "put [...]
James Grear & CompanyDon’t Waste Another DayHabakkuk Music 2009www.myspace.com/jamesgrearandcompanyThe Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota have a thriving gospel music community, and James Grear & Company is one of the reasons why. The group’s latest project, Don’t Waste Another Day, finds the hip ensemble rendering songs by top gospel writers, [...]
Pianist Eric Scott Reed informed TBGB that composer and conductor Dr. Wesley A. Boyd, formerly of the Richard Smallwood Singers and founder of the Wesley Boyd Gospel Music Workshop, died Sunday, October 4, 2009.Funeral Arrangements for Dr. Boyd will be held Monday, October 12th at 10:00 am at the Union [...]
Shirley SmithIn Hymn I TrustThe Sirens Records 2009www.thesirensrecords.comIn Hymn I Trust, singer-pianist Shirley Smith’s debut recording for The Sirens Records, is a sweet album of sing-along hymns and congregational gospel songs straight from the proverbial little wooden church on the hill. Raised in Detroit, Smith can play and sing in [...]
“I Feel Like Going On”Marvin L. WinansFrom the World Wide Gospel albumThe Gospel Music Celebration, Part I: Tribute to Bishop G.E. Patterson www.gospeltruthmagazine.comAfter a grand flourish from a Hammond B3, Marvin Winans delivers “I Feel Like Going On,” a lovely and powerful traditional gospel song in memory of COGIC Bishop [...]
Gospel singer Jerry Boose took time from a busy schedule, including pastoring a Toledo, Ohio church and serving as a fireman, to tell TBGB about his gospel group, First Creation.Boose organized First Creation in Toledo during the mid-1980s. “I had been singing around Toledo all my life, in different choirs [...]
Micah StampleyRansomedInterface Entertainment/Central South Distribution 2009www.micahstampley.orgI first became acquainted with praise and worship singer Micah Stampley when he crooned the soothing “Take My Life” on T.D. Jakes’ 2004 He-Motions project (EMI Gospel/Dexterity Sounds). The components of this single – silky smooth, warm and impassioned singing; lovely, uncomplicated melodies; and gently [...]
Carl Whittaker & ExhortationAfterwhileBOG Records 2009www.bogrecords.biz“I am Elder Abraham Isaac Jacob Swanson the Twelfth.” Yes, it is THE Pastor Abraham Swanson XII who introduces Carl Whittaker and Exhortation during the opening moments of the group's Afterwhile, a full-length live recording from Pastor Swanson’s historic Bibleway COGIC in Cincinnati, Ohio. Nearly [...]
