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“Don’t Faint” – Jekalyn Carr
“Don’t Faint” Jekalyn Carr WayNorth Music (release date: March 15, 2025) By Robert M. Marovich Jekalyn Carr, gospel music’s princess of positivity, its empress of encouragement, has made a career of releasing singles designed to reach down and pick people up in their distress. The latest is “Don’t Faint.” She delivers the song’s simple message of faith in the midst of flames and floods with the fiery force of a preacher in the pulpit. Her sermonette is matched by a gigantic and dramatic arrangement featuring background vocalists and a rhythm section that includes a drummer who sounds like he [...]
JGM Pick of the Week – November 13, 2023
“Shout Like You Got It” Bishop Norman Hutchins IR Music Group (release date: March 24, 2023)
JGM Music Hour – Episode 174
This episode includes music reviewed on JGM between late August and mid-October 2023.
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“Don’t Faint” – Jekalyn Carr
“Don’t Faint” Jekalyn Carr WayNorth Music (release date: March 15, 2025) By Robert M. Marovich Jekalyn Carr, gospel music’s princess of positivity, its empress of encouragement, has made a career of releasing singles designed to reach down and pick people up in their distress. The latest is “Don’t Faint.” She delivers the song’s simple message of faith in the midst of flames and floods with the fiery force of a preacher in the pulpit. Her sermonette is matched by a gigantic and dramatic arrangement featuring background vocalists and a rhythm section that includes a drummer who sounds like he [...]
JGM Pick of the Week – November 13, 2023
“Shout Like You Got It” Bishop Norman Hutchins IR Music Group (release date: March 24, 2023)
JGM Music Hour – Episode 174
This episode includes music reviewed on JGM between late August and mid-October 2023.
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By Bob Marovich Richard Smallwood, the multi-award-winning composer, keyboardist, arranger, and Gospel Hall of Fame inductee, talked with the Journal of Gospel Music about his autobiography, Total Praise, released last [...]
2019 Christmas Special Playlist: The soul of Christmas – Brent Jones and JDI Christmas Celebrate Christmas – Cindy Williams & Dream He’s not a baby anymore – Angelo and Veronica [...]
“Jesus What a Wonderful Child” Richard Davis From the R2D Music CD Christmas Rhapsody (release date: November 29, 2019) www.r2dmusic.com By Bob Marovich Richard Davis gives the Angelic Gospel Singers’ [...]
“Standing at the Gates”Erica ReedErica Reed (release date: July 12, 2019)www.ericareedmusic.com By Bob Marovich Emoting like a soulful 1960s torch singer, soprano Erica Reed beseeches the Lord in “Standing at [...]
Chip Bailey The Music in Me ABBII Music (release date: April 20, 2019) www.officialchipbailey.com By Bob Marovich Up to this point, Anthony “Chip” Bailey” has been a singer, musician, songwriter, [...]
By Bob Marovich From time to time, such as on major holidays or when the young people’s choir was singing, young Gloria Fowles and her family accompanied their grandmother to [...]
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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.
