Speaking of musical innovators….Yale graduate Kersten Stevens, someone you have met before on The Black Gospel Blog, paid a visit to the Gospel Announcers Guild during the Gospel Music Workshop of America in Orlando, Florida last month.Stevens charmed the Guild members right out of their seats with her gospelized instrumental [...]
The multi-talented and multi-award winning Israel (Houghton) and New Breed were in the Windy City Tuesday night, September 4, entertaining a packed auditorium in the DuSable Museum of African American History to promote their new live project, A Deeper Level, released that morning.Israel must have been tickled by the electricity [...]
“He’s Done Enough”Beverly CrawfordFrom the JDI album Live from Los Angeles (2007)My stars, can Beverly Crawford sing!On the down-home bluesy “He’s Done Enough,” the Grammy-nominated Crawford tells her audience, “We’re going home, y’all,” and with a great gospel chuckle, she delivers us there.“If He doesn’t do anything else, He’s already [...]
“Listen”Trin-i-tee 5:7From the CD T57, released September 18, 2007Spirit Rising Music 2007http://www.trin-i-tee57.com/“Listen Here!”If Trin-i-tee 5:7’s opening exhortation doesn’t hook you, the bumping and weaving uber-cool beat – best described as bachelor pad gets hip-hop makeover – will most certainly do the trick.The popular and glamourous female gospel group (Chanelle Haynes, [...]
"Open Your Mouth (Give Him a Shout)"Zie'lfrom Genesis LIVE!Light/Gospel Warehouse 2007www.light-street.com THIS is the single from Zie'l I've been waiting for! The female group does just what the title says, winding their modern harmonies around a good, solid church song with a relentless backbeat underscored by hand-clapping. The single was [...]
“Holy”Darius Twymanfrom his forthcoming project With Just One WordCharacter Music 2007www.myspace.com/DariusTwymanMusicGrowing up Catholic, I used to hate “Holy Holy Holy” because it was sung like a funeral dirge, not at all like the pop music I enjoyed on 1970s radio. Thanks to the gospel community embracing this hymn, we can [...]
“I Can Go to God in Prayer”Ami RushesFrom the forthcoming album Lifting (ARM 1004)http://www.amirushes.com/For her first CD Covering, Southern California Community Choir alumna Ami Rushes secured the production skills of Kurt Carr, dug into her file of traditional gospel favorites, and literally “covered” them. She continues to bring classic back [...]
Traces, a female gospel group from the Big Apple, took to the stage during the "Tribute to the King" program at the Gospel Music Workshop of America in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon, August 15.In an era where the instrumental accompaniment of gospel music has been moved from [...]
Members of two generations of Cleveland Singers reunited in song at the Gospel Music Workshop of America's "Tribute to the King" program on Wednesday afternoon, August 15, 2007. The alumni who participated in the reunion were Eugene Bryant, Cleo Kennedy, Henry Jackson, Calvin Bernard Rhone, Gene Viale, Rodney-Wayne Finney, and [...]
Got a HealingThe Willie Harris Gospel SingersOphir 2007Listening to Got a Healing by the Willie Harris Gospel Singers is an aural trip back to the 1970s and 1980s. It is reminiscent of the bass guitar-heavy male quartet recordings released by local groups on southern labels such as Hoyt Sullivan’s Su-Ann [...]
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