The Barnes Family Reunion IIThe Barnes FamilyAIR Records/Malaco Records 2008http://www.malaco.com/Who springs immediately to mind when thinking about gospel singing families are Motor City dynasties the Moss/Clarks and the Winans Families, and the Bay Area’s famed Hawkins Family. But let us not forget about another popular singing family, the Barnes of [...]
In Our Own Words — The Negro Spirituals Heritage Keepers: Celebrate the Completion of Oakland’s First Negro Spirituals Oral HistoriesBy Lily Kharrazi, Living Cultures Grants Manager, Alliance for California Traditional ArtsSent to TBGB by Lyvonne Chrisman“What they did not know was that a people who could not write their own [...]
Tune to 88.7 WLUW Chicago Sunday morning, June 1, from 3:00 to 7:30 a.m. Central Time for this month’s live broadcast of “Gospel Memories” – the soundtrack to That Old Time Religion.Not in Chicago? No problem. Go to http://www.wluw.org/, click the Listen Live button, and enjoy “Gospel Memories” from wherever [...]
From an article published in the Mail & Guardian, Johannesburg, South Africa.TBGB says: Mokoena's death is a tragic loss for the South African gospel community. For anyone unfamiliar with the South African gospel scene, Mokoena, Rebecca Malope and Sizwe Zako are the equivalent in prominence and popularity to America's Kirk [...]
Chapter OneDr. Charles G. Hayes & the Cosmopolitan Church of Prayer ChoirMCG Records 2008www.mcgrecords.comNew chapter, new label, same electrifying gospel chorus. On their first project for gospel label legend James Bullard and MCG Records, the Mighty Warriors of Cosmopolitan demonstrate why they are one of today’s most outstanding traditional gospel [...]
Light Gospel Legacy Series:The Mighty Clouds of JoyLight Records 2008www.lightrecords.comReleased in February, prior to the passing of longtime Clouds member Elmo Franklin, this retrospective – part of the Light Gospel Legacy Series – showcases latter day recordings of the Mighty Clouds of Joy, specifically their projects for Koch (Power, 1995) [...]
Margaret “Babe” Allison & the AngelicsTouch Me AgainMalaco Records 2008www.malaco.comFor 86 years old, Margaret Allison is remarkable. She’s still singing, and sounding pretty good, too. She still possesses much of that piercing, plaintive voice that was the force behind the Angelic Gospel Singers, the sweethearts of the gospel circuit. But [...]
“Oh How Precious”Kathy TaylorFrom the CD The Worship Experience Katco Music Group 2008www.kathytaylorlive.comHouston's own Kathy Taylor is already a familiar name to those who have followed her various projects with Favor, the group she founded, with the most recent being Taylormade on Al “The Bishop” Hobbs’ Aleho International label. She [...]
Among the first Gospel Legacy CDs Light Records released this year were tributes to the Winans, the Detroit family that was to the Eighties what Andrae Crouch and the Hawkins Family were to the Seventies. The Winans, like Crouch and Hawkins, employed the medium of contemporary music to express a [...]
Special thanks to Jason Rubley (Rubes Marketing), Ruben Rodriguez and Pendulum Records for this well-written press release on Regina Belle's Love Forever Shines, released this past Tuesday (May 13).It’s not without some measure of fear and trepidation that gospel music puts checks and balances on reverse crossover artists. After all, [...]
