By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog
For music aficionados, and especially those like me who are critics, the end of the year triggers an unshakable impulse to post a best-of list.
It’s in our DNA. We can’t help it. Honestly. There’s no twelve-step plan for recovery, and if there were, we’d post the best-of twelve-step programs around the country.
Here goes. Let the discussion begin…
- Kurt Carr & the Kurt Carr Singers – Bless This House (Verity Gospel Music Group)
- Sho Baraka – Talented Xth (Lions and Liars Music)
- Alvin Darling – Waiting Right Here (Emtro Gospel)
- Denita Gibbs – Without You (Audiostate Entertainment 55)
- The Jones Family Singers – The Spirit Speaks (Arts + Labor)
- North Carolina Community Choir – A Story to Tell (Malaco)
- Joshua Rogers – Unconditional (Music World Gospel)
- Monica Lisa Stevenson – Live in Atlanta (Puretonez Productions)
- Various Artists – Kerry Douglas Presents Gospel Mix Volume VI (Worldwide Music, Inc.)
- Whosoever South – Goin’ Home (Pitbull Productions)
- Battle Hymn of the Republic – Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir (Brooklyn Tabernacle Music)
- God Is On Our Side – Andrae Crouch (Riverphlo)
- He’ll Carry You – Mississippi Mass Choir feat. Luther Barnes (Malaco)
- Love Never Fails – Micah Stampley & Sheri Jones-Moffett (Motown Gospel)
- More to Life – Joint Heirs feat. Andale’ (self-release)
- Never Let Go – Erica Reed (Eden)
- One – Tim Dillinger feat. Reba Rambo-McGuire (Suxxess)
- One on One – Zacardi Cortez (Worldwide Music, Inc.)
- Unknown Hymn (Come to Jesus) – Micah Stampley (Motown Gospel)
- Without You – Denita Gibbs (Audiostate Entertainment 55)
- You Love Me – Pastor Dan Willis (Dan Willis Ministries)
- Various Artists – I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel from the Nashboro Label, 1951-1983 (Tompkins Square)
TBGB Music Hour Best of 2013 Playlist:
God Is On Our Side – Andrae Crouch
Without You – Denita Gibbs
Never Let Go – Erica Reed
Love Never Fails – Micah Stampley & Sheri Jones-Moffett
One – Tim Dillinger feat. Reba Rambo-McGuire
We’ve Gotta Put Jesus Back – Kurt Carr & the Kurt Carr Singers
More To Life – Joint Heirs feat. Andale’
One on One – Zacardi Cortez
Unknown Hymn (Come to Jesus) – Micah Stampley
He’ll Carry You – Mississippi Mass Choir feat. Luther Barnes
Get Your Soul Right – Fireside Gospel Singers
You Love Me – Pastor Dan Willis
Battle Hymn of the Republic – Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
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Bob Marovich is a gospel music historian, author, and radio host. Founder of Journal of Gospel Music blog (formally The Black Gospel Blog) and producer of the Gospel Memories Radio Show.
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It’s funny how different records people can choose. Here’s my best of list for 2013:
1. Tye Tribbett: Greater Than
2. The Relatives: The Electric Word
3. Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers
4. Hezekiah Walker: Azusa The Next Generation
5. Fred Hammond: United Tenors
And of course the marvelous Nashboro Gospel Box, I Heard the Angels Singing!