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The Exciting Holy Sons – Greatest Hits, Volume 1
By surveying highlights of the Exciting Holy Sons’ two-decade recording career, Greatest Hits, Volume 1 puts listeners into the virtual front seats of a program by the award-winning Chicago-based gospel quartet.
El McMeen & Ed Maina – Frets and Reeds: Gospel Style!
El McMeen & Ed Maina Frets and Reeds: Gospel Style! Piney Ridge Music (release date: March 25, 2022) By Robert M. Marovich Sometimes gospel jazz can be so imaginative that the melodies get buried beneath the lengthy solos and complex arrangements. But on Frets and Reeds: Gospel Style!, acclaimed [...]
Earnest Pugh to be Honored at the 2026 BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards
Award-winning gospel industry veteran Earnest Pugh will be celebrated as an honoree at the 2026 BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards.
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Bob Marovich of the Journal of Gospel Music interviews gospel recording artist Lil Prince.
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The Exciting Holy Sons – Greatest Hits, Volume 1
By surveying highlights of the Exciting Holy Sons’ two-decade recording career, Greatest Hits, Volume 1 puts listeners into the virtual front seats of a program by the award-winning Chicago-based gospel quartet.
El McMeen & Ed Maina – Frets and Reeds: Gospel Style!
El McMeen & Ed Maina Frets and Reeds: Gospel Style! Piney Ridge Music (release date: March 25, 2022) By Robert M. Marovich Sometimes gospel jazz can be so imaginative that the melodies get buried beneath the lengthy solos and complex arrangements. But on Frets and Reeds: Gospel Style!, acclaimed [...]
Earnest Pugh to be Honored at the 2026 BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards
Award-winning gospel industry veteran Earnest Pugh will be celebrated as an honoree at the 2026 BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards.
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Jim Vierra and Dr. Earl Bynum announced today that they have signed their first artist, NBC's The Voice Top 8 standout alum Justin Aaron, to their label partnership.
"Better Afterwhile" is a bracing new single from gospel veteran Donnie McClurkin.
The National Alliance of Gospel Music Professionals announces that its first AMPed FOR IMPACT session will take place virtually via Zoom on Tuesday, October 21, at 8PM Eastern.
JGM was saddened to learn of the passing of Pastor Joseph A. Peay Sr. He transitioned from earth to glory on October 11, 2025, at age 85.
List of the winners of the 56th Annual GMA Dove Awards (2025)
“Heaven Rules” is a righteous variation on the talking blues, a sermonette by the Reverend John Lee Hooker Jr.—son of the famous bluesman—as preacher and a mixed choir as congregation.
LATEST 5 STAR REVIEWS
DeWayne Woods Life Lessons Soul Therapy Music Group (release date: February 3, 2015) dewaynewoods.rocks By Bob Marovich Excellent songwriting, compelling melodies, thoughtful lyrics, and powerful singing combine to make Life Lessons DeWayne Woods’s best project to date. The album is fueled by a team of top-shelf songwriters, such as PJ Morton (son of Bishop Paul [...]
Soul Stirrers Joy in My Soul: The Complete SAR Recordings ABKCO Records (release date: January 27, 2015 www.abkco.com By Bob Marovich The first ABKCO compilation of Soul Stirrers recordings on the legendary SAR Records was released more than a decade ago. With sixteen tracks, the Stirrers had the lion’s share of sides on the gospel [...]
Brian Courtney Wilson Worth Fighting For Motown Gospel (release date: January 6, 2015) www.motowngospel.com By Bob Marovich Some singers are songwriters and some songwriters are singers. Brian Courtney Wilson is a songwriter—more appropriately a hymnist—who also sings. But make no mistake: the Stellar Award winning and Dove Award nominated Wilson is also a strong singer. [...]
Whosoever South Come On In Elevate Entertainment (released October 7, 2014) www.whosoeversouth.com By Bob Marovich Whosoever South is one of the most innovative Christian groups of the decade. The trio’s self-proclaimed “country crunk” style blends elements of rootsy Americana and country with deep groove bass, gospel, and hip hop. Think Mumford and Sons meets Arrested [...]
Various Artists When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926-1936 Tompkins Square (released December 9, 2014) www.tompkinssquare.com By Bob Marovich Tompkins Square continues its stretch of quality black sacred music reissues with the three-CD When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926-1936. Using 1926 as a starting point is not a [...]
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“I Will Wait” Bri Babineaux Bri Babineaux Music LLC / Tyscot Records LLC (release date: April 7, 2023)
The Lighthouse Singers and a chorus of singers team up to deliver deliciously old fashioned gospel quartet singing on “Good To Me.”
He’s so certain of the message in “It’s Gonna Happen” that Atlanta, Georgia, native Anthony Adeion Hill is in full evangelist move from the outset of this gritty traditional-sounding single.
“I Am” Love Desrosiers From the EP Love Unfailing, Part 2 (release date: March 21, 2023)
On a single oozing with old school soul, gospel crooner Gene Moore endorses the power of believing, especially on the bad days.
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 The stage curtains opened on JJ Hairston & Youthful Praise as the group was about to introduce its new song and soon-to-become-hit, “Incredible God, Incredible Praise.” Holding the microphone was the song’s creator, Deon Kipping. That wasn’t the way it was supposed to go down. “I didn’t want to lead the song,” [...]
By Bob Marovich Not two weeks after its January 22 release, celebrated worship leader William McDowell’s fourth album, Sounds of Revival: Live (Delivery Room Music / eOne Music), entered Billboard Magazine’s Top Gospel Album charts. It knocked Kirk Franklin’s Losing My Religion from the number one position. Recorded live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, before an audience of 3,000 [...]
By Marianne Richard, Special Contributor to the Journal of Gospel Music Jason Nelson just released his Christmas song, “Oh Come Emmanuel,” featuring LIVV, a new gospel singer with a unique voice and a beautiful spirit. When LIVV shared details on the "behind the scenes" of the making of the track, we realized that this Christmas single [...]
Bishop Carlton Pearson died on Sunday night in hospice care in Tulsa due to cancer, said his agent, Will Bogle.
