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JGM Music Hour – Episode 188
This episode includes music reviewed on the Journal of Gospel Music between mid-June and mid-September 2026.
JGM Pick of the Week – October 26, 2026
A woefully underappreciated singer, Kansas City, Missouri, native Chrystal Rucker can turn any song, no matter how mundane, into something special.
“Number One King” – Annie & the Caldwells
The group’s latest release, “Number One King,” features decent enough singing but the song itself lacks that in-your-face immediacy that distinguished the selections on Can’t Lose My (Soul) and drew broad attention to the group.
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Bob Marovich of the Journal of Gospel Music interviews gospel recording artist Lil Prince.
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Recent Posts
JGM Music Hour – Episode 188
This episode includes music reviewed on the Journal of Gospel Music between mid-June and mid-September 2026.
JGM Pick of the Week – October 26, 2026
A woefully underappreciated singer, Kansas City, Missouri, native Chrystal Rucker can turn any song, no matter how mundane, into something special.
“Number One King” – Annie & the Caldwells
The group’s latest release, “Number One King,” features decent enough singing but the song itself lacks that in-your-face immediacy that distinguished the selections on Can’t Lose My (Soul) and drew broad attention to the group.
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This month, Bishop Hezekiah Walker celebrates the grand opening of HezHouse Apartments, a housing development six years in the making.
By Robert M. Marovich Those unfamiliar with Mud Morganfield will surely know the name of his late father, blues icon Muddy Waters. As we recognize that blues and gospel are [...]
“Remember Me” Stanley Brown feat. Jessica Reedy ROC Nation (release date: August 7, 2026)
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.
“Working On Me” Zacardi Cortez From the Blacksmoke Music Worldwide album Ibhar: The Journey (Chapter 2) (album release date: November 14, 2025)
LATEST 5 STAR REVIEWS
What should have been a celebratory album launch is now a memorial tribute to a beloved southern gospel group.
Fresh off her multi-award-winning debut live project Believe For It, CeCe Winans drops another five-star live project with More Than This.
John Paul McGee A Gospejazzical Christmas Jazz Urbane (release date: November 16, 2023) Guest review by David McGee In A Gospejazzical Christmas, the first new recording we’ve heard from Dr. John Paul McGee, Ph.D., since his acclaimed 2022 release, Gospejazzical Vol. 1, the gifted pianist-songwriter-producer-vocal arranger (currently assistant chair of piano at the Berklee College [...]
For its sixth album and first in three years, gospel group Anthony Brown and Group TherAPy offers a battery of scripture-based affirmations on its album of the same name.
Jekalyn Carr Jekalyn New Day Entertainment (release date: October 20, 2023) By Robert M. Marovich Jekalyn Carr, gospel music’s queen of encouragement, returns with a self-titled album that captures her unconquerable energy even as the lyrics focus less on the power of positive thinking and action, and more on the power of praise, worship, [...]
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“My Soul Cries Yes” Neva Ford Nation Bdm/Ugroove Music (release date: August 14, 2026)
“That’s What He’s Done” is the latest example of the buoyant and infectious Low Country sound as it's done by North Carolina’s Jason Singleton & the Sound of Destiny Choir.
Bishop Calvin Norton and his singers come in strong but it’s the mighty-voiced Velicia Manor who steals the show on the anthem version of “Spirit of God Moving All Over Me.”
Ann Nesby’s “Amen” is not the Wings Over Jordan / Jester Hairston / Lilies of the Field neo-spiritual but a contemporary piece proclaiming, to a bouncy and bracing backdrop, that when things get bad, “don’t give up,” remember who pulled you through, and “say ‘Amen’.”
The Robersons—formerly known as Desmond Roberson & the Roberson Bunch—return with “Keep Blessin’,” a hand-clapper in the gospel quartet tradition.
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.
Fresh off the thirty-city I Got Away tour, in partnership with McDonald’s Inspiration Celebration Gospel Tour, singer and songwriter Bri Babinieux is looking forward to releasing a new album this fall.
The Beverly Arts Center will open its Pride Month Celebration Sunday, June 9, with Shout OUT: A Tribute to Gays in Gospel Music.
By Robert M. Marovich Take in a concert by The SteelDrivers and, in between songs like “Blue Side of the Mountain,” "Wearin' a Hole," and “Long Way Down,” you might hear a song or two from the canon of southern gospel music. But until yesterday, one could not find an entire album of gospel songs [...]
In addition to everything already being said about Rev. Jackson's achievements, it should be noted that he also loved gospel music.
Jamie Lee Rake informed JGM of the passing of Nate Luckett, a member of the Fabulous Luckett Brothers.
