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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 [...]
Getting The Music Right: The Role of Gospel Music in “My Father, The Queen”
Come meet the filmmaker and special guests for a panel discussion about the film, the Black Church, the LGBTQ+ community, and gospel music.
JGM Pick of the Week: October 31, 2023
“Great and Mighty” Dorinda Clark Cole Malaco Music Group (release date: October 13, 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 [...]
Getting The Music Right: The Role of Gospel Music in “My Father, The Queen”
Come meet the filmmaker and special guests for a panel discussion about the film, the Black Church, the LGBTQ+ community, and gospel music.
JGM Pick of the Week: October 31, 2023
“Great and Mighty” Dorinda Clark Cole Malaco Music Group (release date: October 13, 2023)
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Ray Holland & the New Boyz of Triumph Keep On Running Sharp Records (release date: May 23, 2019) www.sharprecordsusa.com By Bob Marovich With notable exceptions (e.g., Thomas Spann of the [...]
“Saved” April Hall Enon Music Group (release date: March 27, 2019) By Bob Marovich The featured soloist on Damon Little’s 2016 viki_soul only fans videosBillboard-charting “I Won’t Be Defeated,” April [...]
Jesse CannA New SongJordan Line Music (2019)www.jessecann.com By Bob Marovich At the Rhythm of Gospel Awards this summer, a distinguished-looking bearded gentleman named Jesse Cann sat down at a keyboard. [...]
Out of the Dust Now More than Ever Independent (release date: September 13, 2019) www.outofthedustmusic.com By Bob Marovich If the Swell Season’s Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova made a Christian [...]
Travis Greene Broken Record RCA Inspiration (release date: November 1, 2019) www.rcainspiration.com By Bob Marovich Broken Record is Travis Greene’s fourth full-length album and continues the youthful sacred fusion of [...]
Bob Marovich, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Gospel Music, and Hasan James, publisher and editor of Root Magazine, talk with host Jon Caramanica on The New York Times Popcast about [...]
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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.
