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“I Can Go Home” (Remix) – The Fisher Girls
“I Can Go Home (Remix)” The Fisher Girls (release date: June 12, 2026) By Robert M. Marovich The banging “I Can Go Home” is a remix of an acoustic release originally issued in February 2025 by blood sisters Alma and Raquel Fisher, aka The Fisher Girls. It offers fine singing and chiming harmonies, though a couple of strange licks by the drummer during the spoken word portion jolt the rhythm, and the listener, and threaten to interfere with the speaker’s message. While the remix has its appeal, a greater emphasis on the ladies’ harmonies in particular, I prefer the lower-key [...]
JGM Music Hour Special – Gospel on Groover #2 (July 2026)
This JGM Music Hour Special features independent gospel and CCM artists worldwide who JGM found on the Groover platform. The show is streaming with no interruptions. Discover new artists!
Marvin Sapp Enters Partnership with Roc Nation; His 17th Album To Be Distributed by Music & Culture Juggernaut
Marvin Sapp’s 17th album, Restoration, will be distributed by music and culture juggernaut Roc Nation, through a newly established partnership that was announced today.
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Check out the Journal of Gospel Music's exclusive video interview of gospel quartet singer Li'l Prince - available here starting the afternoon of October 16.
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“I Can Go Home” (Remix) – The Fisher Girls
“I Can Go Home (Remix)” The Fisher Girls (release date: June 12, 2026) By Robert M. Marovich The banging “I Can Go Home” is a remix of an acoustic release originally issued in February 2025 by blood sisters Alma and Raquel Fisher, aka The Fisher Girls. It offers fine singing and chiming harmonies, though a couple of strange licks by the drummer during the spoken word portion jolt the rhythm, and the listener, and threaten to interfere with the speaker’s message. While the remix has its appeal, a greater emphasis on the ladies’ harmonies in particular, I prefer the lower-key [...]
JGM Music Hour Special – Gospel on Groover #2 (July 2026)
This JGM Music Hour Special features independent gospel and CCM artists worldwide who JGM found on the Groover platform. The show is streaming with no interruptions. Discover new artists!
Marvin Sapp Enters Partnership with Roc Nation; His 17th Album To Be Distributed by Music & Culture Juggernaut
Marvin Sapp’s 17th album, Restoration, will be distributed by music and culture juggernaut Roc Nation, through a newly established partnership that was announced today.
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Karen Wooten leads the venerable Chicago Mass Choir on “He’ll Make It Alright,” a hard-charging declaration of encouragement in the midst of life’s trials.
Robert Marovich, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gospel Music, received the 2026 Tyrone Porter Living Legacy Award from the Arnold Fields Endowment Foundation and Palmetto State Gospel Music Association on March 7, 2026.
ATLANTA, GA (March 3, 2026) — Atlanta will take center stage this May with the launch of bamX — Black Music Week, a citywide cultural experience celebrating the legacy, [...]
With an old-fashioned gospel quartet name but a style that blends old- and new-school, the Echoaires introduce “I Promised Jesus” with an explosion of sound before the song settles into the quintessential quartet backbeat.
The Journal of Gospel Music was saddened to hear of the passing of legendary singer Roscoe Robinson, in Birmingham, Alabama. He was 97.
Tasha Cobbs Leonard has earned the Outstanding Gospel/Christian Album accolade for her critically acclaimed studio debut TASHA at the 57th NAACP Image Awards.
LATEST 5 STAR REVIEWS
Nine Beats Collective Nine Beats to the Bar Plankton Records (release date: June 16, 2017) www.9beats.org By Bob Marovich Nine Beats Collective is an assembly of musicians, songwriters, composers, singers, and poets who represent three continents and contribute different musical styles, but have one thing in common: healing the world from the inside out. A product of their efforts, Nine Beats to the Bar, [...]
Paul Thorn Don’t Let the Devil Ride Perpetual Obscurity Records (release date: March 23, 2018) www.paulthorn.com By Bob Marovich Paul Thorn’s Don’t Let the Devil Ride hits the Americana music jackpot. With the Blind Boys of Alabama and the McCrary Sisters as guest vocalists, the Preservation Hall Horns among the musicians, and Rick Hall’s Fame and [...]
Snoop Dogg Snoop Dogg Presents Bible of Love RCA Inspiration / All The Time Entertainment (release date: March 16, 2018) www.rcainspiration.com By Bob Marovich Calvin Broadus Jr. assumes the pulpit. In soft tones, he looks the congregation in the eye and strongly recommends that those who point fingers at others should instead point them at themselves. Treat your neighbor [...]
Morris Mingo featuring the With One Voice Ensemble & Friends The Time of the Minstrel Moming Productions (release date: October 27, 2017) https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/morrismingo By Bob Marovich The Time of the Minstrel is an independently-produced album that deserves major label attention. From the quality of its packaging and album notes to the rich mix of songs [...]
Anthony Brown & group therAPy [a long way from sunday] Tyscot Records (release date: July 28, 2017) www.tyscot.com By Bob Marovich [a long way from Sunday] is Anthony Brown & group therAPy’s third album for Tyscot Records and the follow-up to 2015’s Everyday Jesus, which earned the group no less than ten Stellar Awards in [...]
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“There Wouldn’t Be a Me” Shonda English Gospel Diva Music (release date: January 23, 2024)
“Never Turn Back” Gregory G. Pearson feat. Angelena Starks Inner Court Music (release date: September 15, 2023)
Melvin Crispell III – the BET Sunday Best Season 9 champion – gives James Fryson’s classic composition “God Is” an easygoing shuffle tempo.
Bri Babineaux’s best single in a while, “Confident” lives up to its title in lyric and overall musical swagger.
“Wonder In My Soul” Pastor Stephen E. Boyd From the SB Entertainment album Chronicles of My Country Church Vol. 1 (release date: April 12, 2024)
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.
From his singing with gospel quartets such as the Golden Tones and Gospel Clarinets to his current work with the legendary vocal harmony group the Spaniels, Billy Shelton has a story to tell. It's on "Conversations with the Gospel Legends!"
By Bob Marovich In 2012, Jermaine Dolly, a background vocalist for Tye Tribbett, began toying with becoming a solo gospel artist. But he set it aside. Growing up, the southwest Philadelphia native never thought of being an out-front performer. "I was happy singing background," Dolly told the Journal of Gospel Music. "Happy being a keyboardist [...]
Travis Greene at the 2017 Stellars. Photo Credit: Maury Phillips, Courtesy of Central City Productions/TV One By Bob Marovich Gospel singer, musician, and songwriter Travis Greene earned so many Stellar Awards at this year’s ceremonies in Las Vegas that he could have used a shopping cart to carry them home. Add a recent [...]
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. Homegoing details are below. From the Malaco Music Group bio on the Joy Boyz: If family groups are ubiquitous in gospel music, brother [...]
