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JGM Pick of the Week – February 11, 2025
UK-based modern worship artist Faithful Forever offers a stunning cover of “10,000 Reasons,” the Matt Redman hit from 2012.
“You Won It All” – Taushey Sias
“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 [...]
Pick of the Week: January 16, 2025
“Blessings” Yolanda Adams From the Epic Records album Sunny Days (album release date: September 13, 2024)
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JGM Pick of the Week – February 11, 2025
UK-based modern worship artist Faithful Forever offers a stunning cover of “10,000 Reasons,” the Matt Redman hit from 2012.
“You Won It All” – Taushey Sias
“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 [...]
Pick of the Week: January 16, 2025
“Blessings” Yolanda Adams From the Epic Records album Sunny Days (album release date: September 13, 2024)
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Music icon CeCe Winans, the best-selling and most-awarded female gospel artist of all time, continues her reign as one of the most decorated artists in Christian music, adding three more GMA Dove Awards to her illustrious career.
Gospel singer and background vocalist Emily "Cissy" Houston passed away October 7, 2024, at age 91.
The Journal of Gospel Music was saddened to learn today from Darrell Luster of Malaco Music Group that Darryl Frierson, one-half of the twin duo the Joy Boyz, passed away. [...]
“Clap My Way” Micah Lee Micah’s Music (release date: July 19, 2024)
Singer-songwriter-producer and Paris resident Jerry St. Charles, aka JSCToken, fuses spirituality with club music to produce “Holy Dance Groove-1.”
LATEST 5 STAR REVIEWS
Reba Rambo Lady Provident Label Group / Sony Music (re-release date: December 13, 2019) By Bob Marovich Provident Label Group / Sony Music has just made a beloved recording by Christian singer Reba Rambo available once again, digitally remastered. By 1977, when she released her fifth solo recording, Lady, on Greentree Records, Reba Rambo, the [...]
Gloria Gaynor Testimony Gaither Music Group (release date: June 7, 2019) www.gloriagaynor.com By Bob Marovich The release of Gloria Gaynor’s gospel album Testimony may have taken some by surprise, but if you know something about her life story, it makes sense. In fact, Gaynor's signature song, “I Will Survive,” followed an almost career-ending accident that [...]
Out of the Dust Now More than Ever Independent (release date: September 13, 2019) www.outofthedustmusic.com By Bob Marovich If the Swell Season’s Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova made a Christian album, it would sound like Out of the Dust’s Now More than Ever. The sophomore release for the husband-and-wife duo Chris and Stephanie Teague offers [...]
Pastor Willie E. Kirkpatrick Presents Joseph Price & the Prince of Peace Choir Do You Know Prince of Peace (release date: August 2, 2019) www.princeofpeacechurchstl.com By Bob Marovich Though Prince of Peace Baptist Church in Berkeley, Missouri, has served the St. Louis area for nearly a century, its choir just cut its debut full-length recording [...]
The Jewell Gospel Trio Many Little Angels in the Band NarroWay Records (release date: October 18, 2019) www.gospelfriend.se By Bob Marovich (as originally featured in Living Blues magazine) Any discourse on music of the Church of the Living God, Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Jewell Dominion typically turns to its sacred steel tradition with [...]
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“God Said He Would Heal the Land” Cherry and Family Independent (release date: October 20, 2023)
“What Is This I Got? Holy Ghost” proves that although it has new personnel, the sound of the New C Lord Cs is consistent with its roots in traditional gospel quartet going back to 1954.
After listening to Andy McGuire’s “All Mighty God,” anyone who has lost loved ones to Alzheimer’s disease will need to have tissue handy.
“Jesus” Sydnee Danielle Revival Music Co. (release date: August 18, 2023)
“Shout Like You Got It” Bishop Norman Hutchins IR Music Group (release date: March 24, 2023)
Conversations with the Gospel Legends: Vernon Oliver Price and Loretta Oliver
Conversations with the Gospel Legends with Bob Marovich. Guests: The Oliver Sisters, Loretta Oliver and Vernon Oliver Price. from PCC Studio on Vimeo.
Conversations with the Gospel Legends – The Barrett Sisters
Check out the first episode of "Conversations with the Gospel Legends," a new program on Rev. Harold Bailey's PCC Broadcast Network. Our guests for the debut show are the world-renowned Barrett Sisters: Rodessa Barrett Porter and Billie Barrett Greenbey. JGM's Bob Marovich is the host. The next program will feature [...]
By Robert Marovich
In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.
By Robert Marovich
In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.
By Bob Marovich Anyone who witnessed Tappahannock, Virginia, rapper J Rock during freestyle battles heard a young, hungry, and confident artist who didn’t just want to emulate Jay-Z: he wanted to be better than Jay-Z. But behind the scenes, the story looked different. “I was hooked on drugs and did a lot of bad stuff,” [...]
By Bob Marovich Once upon a time in Grand Rapids, Michigan, life was looking pretty good for Steven Malcolm. He and his family lived in a middle-class home. Their father, Winston, a Jamaican by birth, had a decent job at General Motors. Then when Steven was about ten years old, Winston was arrested. He had been [...]
By Bob Marovich It’s not unusual to hear how a gospel song touched someone’s life. Every now and then, you even hear about how a gospel song saved someone’s life. But what about when a song saves the life of its own creator? That is the story behind “Have Your Way,” the new single from [...]
JGM learned from Eric Clark that Harrison Johnson of “I’ve Decided to Make Jesus My Choice” fame passed away December 19, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he was living at the time. He was 86.
The Journal of Gospel Music is saddened to report that Philadelphia's longtime gospel announcer Linwood Heath passed away.