“How I Got Over”Vickie WinansFrom the forthcoming Destiny Joy Records album How I Got Over (available August 25, 2009) www.vickiewinans.comGospel music veteran and fashionista Vickie Winans weaves her personal testimony into the classic “How I Got Over,” a liberating, hard-charging, uptempo performance guaranteed to bring congregants to their feet and [...]
Laura Barton of The Guardian writes a lovely article about Ecorse, Michigan record entrepreneur Fenton Williams. Williams started several labels, including Revival Records. Revival was dedicated to Christian and gospel music. The intrepid forgotten music seekers at Numero Group are releasing a compendium of tracks -- sacred and secular -- [...]
"Jesus Christ”Ron BarrettFrom the CD It’s the Grace of God Keeping MeVocal Vessel Music Group 2008www.myspace.com/ronbarrettLike his cousin DeLois Barrett Campbell, Ron “Everybody’s Uncle” Barrett is one of Chicago’s go-to traditional gospel singers. Whether for a funeral, anniversary or church celebration, when a group needs someone to present a gospel [...]
CokoThe Winner in MeLight Records 2009www.lightrecords.comIt may be a muggy, humid August, but it's time for hot Coko!A former member of the singing group SWV (Sisters With Voices) and Hezekiah Walker’s Love Fellowship Tabernacle Choir, Cheryl “Coko” Clemons has matured tremendously as a solo performer. Her latest project, The Winner [...]
Minister Greg Harris - Live Your Worst is Over and Your Best is Yet to Come Sabbath Day Records 2009 www.sabbathdayrecords.com I first heard Minister Greg Harris of Little Rock, Arkansas sing last week when he opened one of the morning sessions of the Gospel Announcers Guild/GMWA meeting in Cincinnati [...]
Congratulations to gospel artists Marjane, Mary Mary and Marvin Winans, Jr. for their 2009 MP3 Music Awards (MMA) nomination in the Gospel/Christian/Spiritual category. The artists were nominated for the following recorded song performances:Marjane - "This Joy"Mary Mary - "God In Me"Marvin Winans, Jr - "You Never Let Me Down"(All excellent [...]
TBGB congratulates its good friend, Rev. Joe Williams (Sons of the Birds, Dixie Hummingbirds) on being chosen to receive the Paul Robeson Freedom Fighter Award from the West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance & Historic Paul Robeson House, in partnership with the Parkside Historic Preservation Corporation.Information on the August 9 event at [...]
Gospel enthusiasts will recognize Renee Credle as the only directress among three directors of the New York State Mass Choir, the group that sang alongside GMWA Chairman Bishop Albert Jamison on the Light Records album Show Yourself Mighty.On September 8, 2009, wider audiences will also learn that directress Renee Credle [...]
The Gospel Music Workshop of America concluded its annual convention in Cincinnati yesterday evening and will be returning to the "Queen City" for next year's gathering. Although the following is not meant to be a comprehensive survey of Cincinnati's gospel music heritage, here are some tidbits to whet your appetite:Queen [...]
Every year at the Gospel Announcers Guild meetings during the Gospel Music Workshop of America, one artist takes the room by surprise.So far this year, that artist is Pastor Seon Thompson.This tall, bespectacled, mild-mannered gentleman preacher from Flint, MI got in front of the gospel announcers Wednesday afternoon and tore [...]
