JGM Pick of the Week: January 28, 2025
“He Will Heal the Land” Rev. Hayward Anderson & the Davis Chorale Singers Anderson Music Group (release date: August 26, 2024)
“He Will Heal the Land” Rev. Hayward Anderson & the Davis Chorale Singers Anderson Music Group (release date: August 26, 2024)
When Chicagoland-area gospel singer-songwriter Bobbi Lane’s father, Pastor Abram Lane, passed away, she wrote “Light in a Dark Place” to heal her pain.
“Near” The Beautiful Gate Music From the album We All Need Jesus (single release date: January 31, 2025)
“You Won It All” Taushey Sias TVL (release date: April 19, 2024) By Robert M. Marovich What sets “You Won It All” apart from other current gospel singles are the playfulness of the piano intro, the island rhythm that drives the lyrics, and Taushey Sias’ sassy staccato vocals. A song [...]
“Blessings” Yolanda Adams From the Epic Records album Sunny Days (album release date: September 13, 2024)
Given the unexpected success of, and critical acclaim for, the 2023 release Parchman Prison Prayer – Some Mississippi Sunday Morning, GRAMMY Award-winning producer and author Ian Brennan flew back to the Mississippi penitentiary to do a second album, Parchman Prison Prayer - Another Mississippi Sunday Morning.
Gospel Diaries Golden Memories is a series of musical moments captured by historian Eric Maurice Clark during his visits with vocalists and musicians, most of whom have direct links to gospel’s earliest days, especially in Chicago, the genre’s birthplace city.
Mervin Mayo, the Richmond, Virginia, policeman whose gospel singing was caught on video in 2020 and subsequently went viral, sings “In This Place” with a gritty and instantly-compelling R&B-style vocal delivery.
Trading truisms with a full-throated choir, Bishop Norman Hutchins reminds the listener in his boisterous new single that God has brought his people a mighty long way.
To update his 2007 Christmas song “The Savior Has Come,” gospel singer Bryan Andrew Wilson turned to New Orleans’s GRAMMY Award-winning Rebirth Brass Band to give it appropriate punch.