Gospel Artist Ricky Dillard Nominated For 10 Stellar Music Awards | News One
Click below to read the article and see the video: Gospel Artist Ricky Dillard Nominated For 10 Stellar Music Awards | News One.
Reverend Charlie Jackson – Lord You’re So Good
Reverend Charlie Jackson Lord You’re So Good: Live Recordings, Vol. 2 Fifty Miles of Elbow Room #6 www.50milesofelbowroom.com By Bob Marovich In 2003, Kevin Nutt’s CaseQuarter label issued the first comprehensive collection of vintage recordings by the guitar-toting Louisianan preacher Reverend Charlie Jackson. The CD compilation of impossibly rare 45 rpm [...]
Mavis Staples Documentary to Play SXSW Film Festival
Click on the link below to check out a preview of the Mavis Staples documentary, directed by Jessica Edwards. The documentary has been accepted as part of the 2015 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas. The Festival will run from March 13 to 20. http://insidemovies.ew.com/2015/01/08/mavis-trailer-sxsw/
Hear some rare Detroit gospel, including previously unreissued Otis Johnson | Blogs | Detroit Metro Times
Hear some rare Detroit gospel, including previously unreissued Otis Johnson | Blogs | Detroit Metro Times.
JGM Pick of the Week: December 24, 2014
“Lord I Just Wanna Thank You” Pastor Tyrone Jefferson From Taking It Back to Church (2013) www.cdbaby.com/cd/pastortyronejefferson The title of Pastor Tyrone Jefferson’s album is Taking It Back to Church, and that is exactly what he does on the high-spirited “Lord I Just Wanna Thank You.” Jefferson puts his preacher’s [...]
JGM Pick of the Week: December 14, 2014
“Gonna Tell the World About You” Eddie Ruth Bradford From the CD Blessed to Be a Blessing www.eddieruthbradfordmusic.com Eddie Ruth Bradford’s latest single is deliciously old-school, complete with whirring organ, funky backbeat, and multi-tracked quartet of voices on the chorus. By referencing Bible stories that demonstrate Jesus’s ability to give eyesight to [...]
When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926-1936
Various Artists When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926-1936 Tompkins Square (released December 9, 2014) www.tompkinssquare.com By Bob Marovich Tompkins Square continues its stretch of quality black sacred music reissues with the three-CD When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926-1936. Using 1926 as a [...]
JGM Pick of the Week: December 8, 2014
“He’ll Make It Alright” Pastor Antoine Hutchins featuring the Christian Unity Choir From the CD He Still Loves Me (2014) www.cdbaby.com/cd/pastorantoinehutchins No doubt the members of Christian Unity Baptist Church in Waldorf, Maryland, shout whenever Pastor Antoine Hutchins and the Christian Unity Choir break out the churchy Tommies hit, “He’ll [...]
Vanessa Bell Armstrong Loses Son
Please keep Vanessa Bell Armstrong and her family lifted in prayer. Madame Armstrong's mother passed in March and now we learn that her son Terrance passed away just hours ago. Thanks to Mona King Austin for sharing the news with Journal of Gospel Music. We extend our deepest sympathies to the [...]
Andrae’ Crouch Hospitalized; Celebration Tour for December Postponed
(NASHVILLE, Tennessee) -- Legendary Gospel artist Andraé Crouch was admitted to the hospital on Monday, December 1. As a result of Andraé's sudden and unexpected hospitalization, Riverphlo Entertainment has decided to postpone this month's Let the Church Say Amen Celebration Tour. Ticket holders can contact the venues for information on [...]
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