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“Shout For Joy (Psalm 98)” – Cindy Clark
Psalm 98 has always been an ideal psalm to set to music; after all, it’s about singing a new song.
Strange Things Happening – Kid Ramos feat. Brian Templeton and Johnny Ramos
On Strange Things Happening, the first album in five years by California-born guitarist, singer, and songwriter David “Kid” Ramos, the bite of no-holds-barred roadhouse blues meets timeless gospel songs that have shaken the rafters of many churches for decades.
JGM Pick of the Week – March 3, 2025
“It’s In Your Praise” Lamont McCoy David’s Dance Music (release date: December 31, 2024)
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“Shout For Joy (Psalm 98)” – Cindy Clark
Psalm 98 has always been an ideal psalm to set to music; after all, it’s about singing a new song.
Strange Things Happening – Kid Ramos feat. Brian Templeton and Johnny Ramos
On Strange Things Happening, the first album in five years by California-born guitarist, singer, and songwriter David “Kid” Ramos, the bite of no-holds-barred roadhouse blues meets timeless gospel songs that have shaken the rafters of many churches for decades.
JGM Pick of the Week – March 3, 2025
“It’s In Your Praise” Lamont McCoy David’s Dance Music (release date: December 31, 2024)
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5-0 Studios London and the “Queen of Gospel,” Pastor Shirley Caesar will tell her story in a new film series entitled BLESSINGS - My Life - His Glory.
Marking a new chapter under the Daywind Music Group umbrella, the legendary Southern Gospel group LeFevre Quartet announces their partnership with Daywind Records.
This episode includes music reviewed on the Journal of Gospel Music between mid-July and late September 2024.
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Melvin Crispell III – the BET Sunday Best Season 9 champion – gives James Fryson’s classic composition “God Is” an easygoing shuffle tempo.
The Ring Music Group is proud to announce its involvement in the PBS film series RENEGADES, contributing original music for three of five pivotal episodes in the series.
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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, [...]
Kurt CarrBless Somebody ElseRCA Inspiration (release date: July 19, 2019)www.rcainspiration.com By Bob Marovich In what may well be the most heartrending introduction you will hear on a gospel album this year, Praise & Worship pioneer Kurt Carr uses the opening moments of his new CD, Bless Somebody Else, to relate the final moments he spent [...]
The Southern Sons of Memphis “Live” At Home in Memphis SOME Records (2016) www.sonsofmemphismusic.com By Bob Marovich Although released in 2016, the Southern Sons of Memphis’s “Live” At Home in Memphis is, like most gospel quartet recordings without undue amounts of synthesizer, evergreen. Bob Holloway, the Southern Sons’ longstanding member, is lead vocalist on almost [...]
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“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)
“I’ll See Him” Highway QCs feat. Spencer Taylor Jr. Independent / DJJ Music Media (release date: August 10, 2023)
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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 [...]
By Robert M. Marovich JGM learned of the passing last week of singer, guitarist, and GRAMMY nominee Sam Butler. He was 70 years old. From preschool age, Samuel Butler Jr. had an estimable apprenticeship learning at the feet of his father, the Reverend Samuel Butler Sr., who played guitar for the Original Five Blind Boys [...]
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.