“God’s Love Lifted Me Higher”Roscoe Robinson & the Birmingham Blind BoysFrom the Mississippi Delta Blues CDGod's Love Lifted Me Higher (2014)www.mississippideltabluesinfo.com/roscoe.htmlTrading on his experience as lead singer for the Mississippi, Alabama, and Ohio Blind Boys, veteran singer Roscoe Robinson has assembled the Birmingham Blind Boys, a new quartet named for his [...]
Dr. Vera J. Goodman & Anointed PraiseIt’s Our TimeFirst Lady Productions (2014)Anointedpraise2011@yahoo.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel BlogIndependently produced church choir albums have been around since at least the early 1960s, and the results have been as mixed as the choirs recorded. It’s Our Time, a self-produced live recording by [...]
Enjoy this podcast of "Gospel Memories" - words and music with the Barrett Sisters: Billie Barrett GreenBey and Rodessa Barrett Porter. Plus Dr. Mary Campbell (daughter of the late DeLois Barrett Campbell), Fran Allen-Leake, and Prof. L. Stanley Davis.Gospel Memories - April 19, 2014The Sweet Sisters of Zion: DeLois Barrett [...]
Damien Sneed co-presented, in conjunction with Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center, a series of YouTube videos featuring the historic Abyssinian Mass: A Gospel Celebration.Enjoy the entire two-hour performance of Wynton Marsalis's sacred work here, from the Frederick P. Rose Theater in New York City, Thursday evening, October 24, [...]
J. M. CruverDon’t Give UpSharp Records (2014)www.amazon.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel BlogAll James Michael Cruver wants to do is sing a church song. He sings six, as a matter of fact, on his new Sharp Records EP, Don’t Give Up.Originally from Newnan, Georgia, where he is primary musician [...]
“A Little Longer”Nancey Jackson JohnsonFrom the Camdon CD The Heart of Nancey Jackson Johnson(2014)I have been enamored of Nancey Jackson Johnson’s voice and dramatic take on a song ever since hearing her sing “Lead Me to the Rock” on Rev. Stef & Jubilation’s 2006 The Launch Out Project. Since then, [...]
“Whatever I Expect”Bishop Larry Trotter & Sweet Holy Spirit Combined ChoirsFrom the Utopia Music Group album Praise Revisited (2013)“Trials and tribulations, we have overcome,” sings the choir, in response to Bishop Larry Trotter’s reminder that if you “expect little, you’re going to get little. But if you expect great, you’re [...]
Quartetter James Smith, the "Wonder Boy" who sang with Rev. Richard Campbell in the 1950s, died April 10, 2014, in Waterloo, South Carolina.Smith was also a member of the Golden Stars, lead singer with the Southern Wonders, and sang with the Gospel lmperials.Read the obituary here: James SmithThanks to John Glassburner [...]
