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El McMeen – Gospel Guitar Treasures
Gospel Guitar Treasures is a meditative mix of familiar hymns, gospels, spirituals, and camp meeting songs played on solo acoustic guitar by superb picker Ellsworth “El” McMeen.
Beau Williams, R&B and Gospel Singer, Dies at 76
The Journal of Gospel Music learned of the passing on June 17, 2026, of singer Beau Williams.
Kierra Sheard to Receive BMI Impact Award at 2026 BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards
Multiple award-winning artist and songwriter Kierra Sheard will receive the BMI Impact Award in recognition of her impressive career and impact on the future of gospel music.
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El McMeen – Gospel Guitar Treasures
Gospel Guitar Treasures is a meditative mix of familiar hymns, gospels, spirituals, and camp meeting songs played on solo acoustic guitar by superb picker Ellsworth “El” McMeen.
Beau Williams, R&B and Gospel Singer, Dies at 76
The Journal of Gospel Music learned of the passing on June 17, 2026, of singer Beau Williams.
Kierra Sheard to Receive BMI Impact Award at 2026 BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards
Multiple award-winning artist and songwriter Kierra Sheard will receive the BMI Impact Award in recognition of her impressive career and impact on the future of gospel music.
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Melba Moore's new memoir, "This Is It," is available now through Amazon Books.
Rev. Dr. Issac Whittmon, Founder and Senior Pastor of Greater Metropolitan Church of Christ in Chicago, has passed away.
Judy Cheeks, daughter of Reverend Julius Cheeks and a singing star during the disco era, passed away on November 26 at the age of 71.
Jamel Strong has signed a record deal with one of the most talked about labels this year, Mixed Bag Entertainment.
Simply and crisply produced, Sunday Morning Reflections contains 20 attractive ambient Christian music selections for solo piano with a brief Scriptural reading preceding each song.
There can’t be too many songs these days reminding us that trouble don’t last always. Adding to the list is Li’l Prince & Company’s latest single, “It’s Going to Get Better.”
LATEST 5 STAR REVIEWS
Various Artists Halo: The One-Derful! Collection Secret Stash Records (release date of CD: April 15, 2016; LP available since February 2016) www.secretstashrecords.com By Bob Marovich During the 1950s and 1960s, Chicago record men and brothers George and Ernie Leaner helped transform South Michigan Avenue’s famed “Motor Row” (of auto dealerships) into Record Row. In addition [...]
WDF What the World Needs Now Studio Cloud 30 (release date: November 10, 2015) Available on iTunes By Bob Marovich I rarely award an EP or mini-album five stars because that puts extraordinary pressure on the full-length CD that inevitably follows to be as good, if not better, than the more diminutive project. It's akin to giving a [...]
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis Featuring Damien Sneed and Chorale Le Chateau The Abyssinian Mass Blue Engine Records (release date: March 18, 2016) www.blueenginerecords.org By Bob Marovich During the sermon section of The Abyssinian Mass, Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts III welcomes congregants with a statement that is the underlying theme of [...]
Jonathan Nelson Fearless Light Records/Entertainment One Music (release date: March 18, 2016) www.jonathannelson.us By Bob Marovich Who would have imagined, back in 2004 when he appeared on the national gospel music scene, that the irrepressible new-school gospel artist Tye Tribbett would someday lead an old school-style praise break? That’s exactly what he does at the [...]
Holly Ann Light and Bloom Deeper Well Records (release date: January 13, 2016) www.deeper-well.com By Bob Marovich Last year, Liz Vice demonstrated that some of the best spiritual music doesn’t have to come from established channels of gospel and CCM talent. Portland, Oregon's Christian alternative singer-songwriter Holly Ann Winchell (aka Holly Ann) is another pleasant [...]
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“Have Mercy O Grace” Armstead Ford ft. God’s Harvesters Independent (release date: October 27, 2023)
“Blessed My Soul” Jason Singleton & Friends From the Singletone Music Group CD The LowCountry Church Experience (release date: July 16, 2023) By Robert M. Marovich In what artist and minister Jason Singleton calls a Low Country arrangement, meaning the area along South Carolina’s coast, “Blessed My Soul” evokes the exuberance of the antiphonal and [...]
Reggie Campbell has been in the independent gospel music community for some time—JGM reviewed his 2014 single “I’ve Got Joy”—but “In My Arms” is his best release to date.
“My Life” The Flint Cavaliers feat. Minister Tim White and Minister Darnell Williams Independent (release date: January 1, 2024)
“On Time” Ashford Sanders Ashyashh Music LLC (release date: January 23, 2023)
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 “Bringing talented people together and finding their strong points and making beautiful songs” is the mantra of producer and record label owner Darrell Hines II. His ensemble REVERB’s debut single, the acoustic-flavored “God First,” is impacting gospel radio. “I’ve been immersed in music all of my life,” Hines told the ig askmeaboutmywiener22Journal [...]
By Bob Marovich Pastor Shirley Caesar watched the news with incredulity as she learned how Dylann Roof killed nine people during Bible study at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. “I found it very hard to forgive the boy,” Caesar told the Journal of Gospel Music. “I kept asking myself: ‘Who would come and [...]
By Bob Marovich As a young person growing up in Central Indiana, Leonard Scott had an inkling of what he wanted to be when he grew up. He wanted to be a rock star. “I wasn’t into gospel music [at that time],” Dr. Leonard Scott told the Journal of Gospel Music. “I was into rock [...]
JGM is saddened to report that Cleave Graham, the last original member of the Pilgrim Jubilees gospel quartet, passed away this week.
Singers El DeBarge, Donnie McClurkin, David & Nicole Binion, Bebe Winans, and Erica and Tina Campbell (Mary Mary) Will Sing at Musical Tribute... Pastor Marvin Winans and Bebe Winans Will Attend Homegoing Service, Eulogy To Be Delivered By Crouch’s Spiritual Son and Assistant Church Pastor, Kenneth J. Cook… Services Moved to Faithful Central Bible Church, [...]
