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RIP: Rev. Dr. Thomas L. Walker (“One Day at a Time”)
Reverend Dr. Thomas L. Walker, 77, transitioned on Sunday, September 14, 2025, at his residence.
The Spin Awards Launches Tracy Morgan Excellence in Broadcasting Award
The Spin Awards has announced the creation of the Tracy Morgan Excellence in Broadcasting Award.
JGM Pick of the Week: September 2, 2025
The husband-and-wife duo Arbour Season emit vibes of indie pop groups Tennis and Low on the tender “Come to Me,” based on Matthew 11:28-29.
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RIP: Rev. Dr. Thomas L. Walker (“One Day at a Time”)
Reverend Dr. Thomas L. Walker, 77, transitioned on Sunday, September 14, 2025, at his residence.
The Spin Awards Launches Tracy Morgan Excellence in Broadcasting Award
The Spin Awards has announced the creation of the Tracy Morgan Excellence in Broadcasting Award.
JGM Pick of the Week: September 2, 2025
The husband-and-wife duo Arbour Season emit vibes of indie pop groups Tennis and Low on the tender “Come to Me,” based on Matthew 11:28-29.
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By the Riverside is a 10-song house wrecker that comes straight out of the country church.
Jo Jo Wallace, the famed guitarist and quartet singer, passed from earthly labor to heavenly reward on May 7, 2025, at age 98.
With Mother’s Day nearing, John P. Kee’s latest solo release, “Mother, I Miss You,” as Pick of the Week is appropriate.
The Thomas Whitfield Company and the Detroit gospel family lost tenor singer Ronald J. Kelly and keyboardist extraordinaire Bishop Earl Jerome Wright, Jr. in the space of mere days.
Brent Jones’ latest single, “Praise in the Choir Stand,” is a hand clapper set to a loping tempo where the spotlight is not on the soloist but on the singers moving and grooving in their robes.
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
“Father in Heaven (Right Now)” BeBe Winans feat. Gerald Albright Regimen Records (release date: April 12, 2024)
“Prayer Room” Sarah Betshabaz Independent (release date: February 19, 2024)
“I’m Redeemed” Beloved St. John Evangelistic Church Music and Fine Arts Ministry Independent (release date: October 6, 2023)
“No Stressing” Damon Little feat. Angie Stone Little World Music (release date: May 16, 2023)
Warm, energetic, and with a longstanding passion for churchy gospel music, Bishop Neal Roberson injects each of these characteristics into his new single, “Keeps on Making a Way.”
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 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 [...]
Jerrold Paine Norwood, a founding member of the platinum-selling Chicago-based gospel music ensemble Shekinah Glory Ministry, passed away of cancer complications on August 4, 2024. He was 60.
One of America’s most cherished Gospel music families, The Nelons, were involved in a tragic plane crash on Friday afternoon.
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