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Melba Moore's new memoir, "This Is It," is available now through Amazon Books.
2026 GRAMMY Nominations in Gospel and Christian Music Categories
2026 GRAMMY nominations in the Gospel and Christian Music categories
JGM Pick of the Week – November 3, 2025
“I’m Standing With You” Katie Cloyd ECM Group Nashville (release date: October 31, 2025)
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Sponsored Post: Melba Moore Memoir “This Is It” Available Now
Melba Moore's new memoir, "This Is It," is available now through Amazon Books.
2026 GRAMMY Nominations in Gospel and Christian Music Categories
2026 GRAMMY nominations in the Gospel and Christian Music categories
JGM Pick of the Week – November 3, 2025
“I’m Standing With You” Katie Cloyd ECM Group Nashville (release date: October 31, 2025)
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“Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” written by Aaliyah Franklin, starts out soft and sweet—almost too softly in the first few seconds—but builds to a robust apex and ends with a traditional-sounding vamp.
Mosie Burks, lead singer with the Mississippi Mass Choir, passed away July 7, 2025, at the age of 92.
Dr. Lou Della Evans Reid, renowned gospel choir director, passed away June 5, 2025.
“Devil Go Home” Creigh Riepe Independent (release date: June 13, 2025)
The Alliance Of Gospel Music Professionals To Host Inaugural Alliance at 2025 GMWA in Montgomery, AL
The GMWA will host its 58th Annual Convention in Montgomery, AL, July 13-18. During the convention, The Alliance will hold its sessions and the Inaugural Alliance Chairman Honors Awards Banquet.
LATEST 5 STAR REVIEWS
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 [...]
William McDowell The Cry: A Live Worship Experience Integrity Music (release date: September 20, 2019) www.WilliamMcDowellMusic.com By Bob Marovich I’ve always felt that Praise & Worship music ought to be recorded live. Since it comes out of the worship experience, why not capture it in this same environment? That’s what William McDowell has done with [...]
John P. Kee I Made It Out Entertainment One Music (release date: September 13, 2019) www.eOneMusic.com By Bob Marovich In little more than a generation, Pastor John P. Kee has gone from the new kid on the block to the Prince of Gospel Music, a leading light whose name is frequently invoked by the current [...]
Camille Nelson Sacred Lullabies Heart Dance Records (release date: August 23, 2019) www.camillenelson.com By Bob Marovich Religious music comes in many shapes and sizes. It can be thunderous or austere, passionate or quiescent, joyful or somber. Regardless, for sacred music to be effective, it must, as Father of Gospel Music Thomas A. Dorsey once said, [...]
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
There’s a lot to like about “Agree,” the new single by James Johnson Jr.
“Share the Load” Eric Lee Brumley From the Old Bear Records album Electric Chair (single release date: March 1, 2024)
“The Blood” Paul Porter & Melvin Williams From the Marxan-Blackberry Records album The Kings of Quartet Vol. 1
“Jesus Dropped the Charges” Earl Bynum and Phillip Carter SOV Inc. (release date: March 30, 2024)
“Father in Heaven (Right Now)” BeBe Winans feat. Gerald Albright Regimen Records (release date: April 12, 2024)
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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 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 [...]
By Bob Marovich Patrick Lundy and the Ministers of Music mix traditional and classically-infused contemporary gospel into their repertory. While their current single, the unapologetically traditional “Enter His Gates,” continues to impact radio, the group has also recorded an entire album of spirituals and hymns. This reflects Patrick Lundy's admiration for, and experience with, the full palette of sacred music. Lundy [...]
By Bob Marovich May 18 marks the day Bishop Jason Nelson will release his fifth album, The Answer (RCA Inspiration). Recorded live at Greater Bethlehem Temple Church in Randallstown, Maryland, the album marks Nelson’s tenth anniversary as pastor of Greater Bethlehem Temple, the church his father, Bishop James D. Nelson Sr., once shepherded. JGM asked [...]
Ed. Note: This remembrance, written by Kem Evans, is so affecting I want to share it with the Journal of Gospel Music readers. Mrs. Doris L. Brown is an example of the many thousands of music ministers who walk humbly with the Lord in their work and don't get nearly enough attention by the larger [...]
Rodessa Barrett Porter, the last of the original Barrett Sisters, passed away December 16, 2024, one day after her 94th birthday.
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