Gospel Music

Here are photographic highlights from Monday and Tuesday, July 27 & 28, of the Gospel Announcers Guild of the Gospel Music Workshop of America - in host city Cincinnati, Ohio (photos by TBGB). Bishop Larry Trotter and the Sweet Holy Spirit Combined Choirs of Chicago, directed by James Lott, tear [...]

"Working My Faith"Letita MartinFrom the I-66 Entertainment album Take Me Somewhere Unexpected(Single available on iTunes August 18, 2009; full album in stores Fall 2010)Letita Martin of Rapid City, South Carolina delivers a song about finding and hanging onto faith despite life's challenges, and she does it with such an intense [...]

“I Need You Lord”Curtis WashingtonOverBoard Recordswww.myspace.com/thecurtiswashingtonGospel artist and “PK” Curtis Washington of Houston, Texas was once a member of the R&B group “Reality” and the gospel group “God’s Creation.” He is known to many as the late Gerald Levert’s unofficial twin, given the two singers’ vocal similarities.Today, Curtis is going [...]

TBGB is saddened to report the death of Horace Clarence Boyer, gospel music singer and historian. From WNCU:http://www.wncu.org/jazz-news/horace-clarence-boyer-1935-2009/

“Twisted”Michelle Lang & StillwaterFrom the forthcoming CD Obnoxious (release date: August 2009)www.michellelang-stillwater.comFormed in 2000 and expecting to do a “one time…just outside of town” type of gig, Michelle Lang and Stillwater from Seattle, Washington now has three albums to its credit and a fourth on the way. Lang was voted [...]

J MossJust JamesVerity Gospel Music Group 2009www.verityrecords.comJames “J” Moss is one of the most exciting gospel artists of the decade. Of course, he hails from the Moss/Clark dynasty, as prodigious a musical family as there is, and from Detroit, no less, a city that knows a thing or two about [...]

“Inna the Ghettio”Papa SanFrom the Habakkuk Music/Beloved Records album Higher Heights (in stores July 28) www.habakkukmusic.comBorrowing from Dave Withers’ 1971 hit single “Ain’t No Sunshine,” former Jamaican dance hall hitmaker, Stellar Award-winner and ordained minister Papa San raps reggae on “Inna the Ghettio.” The song is about the trials of [...]

Special thanks to Shane Steward for passing along this article from Greg Garrison of the Birmingham News, and for making available these photographs.Mildred Howard, a member of the Original Gospel Harmonettes of Birmingham, died Sunday [July 12] in Cincinnati.She was believed to be about 89 years old, although a family [...]

“No Turning Back,” “Righteous Highway,” “Carolina,” and “Carry Me”Danny BrooksFrom Live at the Palais Royale' / Soulsville 3 (release scheduled for September 2009)www.dannybrooksmusic.comTBGB has reviewed several projects by Canada’s Danny Brooks over the years, having first heard him when he appeared on the 2002 Northernblues Music compilation Saved! Northernblues Gospel [...]