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JGM Pick of the Week – July 14, 2026
“That’s Where I’ll Be” Limie Dupree D.A.R.E. Music Group (release date: June 26, 2026) By Robert M. Marovich If you’re waiting for Limie Dupree’s debut single, “That’s Where I’ll Be,” to eventually erupt into a sonic explosion of praise at some point, you’ll wait forever. The worship ballad’s hushed mood never alters from start to finish. It’s because the song was born organically during a quiet worship moment at church. Dupree sings with restrained force and the background vocalists almost whisper their response as a gentle piano serves as sole accompaniment. Still, I can’t see how a congregation can [...]
JGM Music Hour – Episode 186
This episode includes music reviewed on the Journal of Gospel Music between late January and early April 2026.
JGM Pick of the Week – May 5, 2026
“Tis So Sweet” Clarence McEwen Independent (release date: April 3, 2026)
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JGM Pick of the Week – July 14, 2026
“That’s Where I’ll Be” Limie Dupree D.A.R.E. Music Group (release date: June 26, 2026) By Robert M. Marovich If you’re waiting for Limie Dupree’s debut single, “That’s Where I’ll Be,” to eventually erupt into a sonic explosion of praise at some point, you’ll wait forever. The worship ballad’s hushed mood never alters from start to finish. It’s because the song was born organically during a quiet worship moment at church. Dupree sings with restrained force and the background vocalists almost whisper their response as a gentle piano serves as sole accompaniment. Still, I can’t see how a congregation can [...]
JGM Music Hour – Episode 186
This episode includes music reviewed on the Journal of Gospel Music between late January and early April 2026.
JGM Pick of the Week – May 5, 2026
“Tis So Sweet” Clarence McEwen Independent (release date: April 3, 2026)
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The husband-and-wife duo Arbour Season emit vibes of indie pop groups Tennis and Low on the tender “Come to Me,” based on Matthew 11:28-29.
The brief nine-track album is high energy and earnest, sunshiny optimism, with effusive singing about praise, hope, and encouragement.
BET Sunday Best Season 9 champion Melvin Crispell III drops serious techno on his gush of praises to Jesus for having made it through the troubles and strife.
The Gospel Music Hall of Fame (GMHOF) today announces its 2025 Induction Gala Ceremony and Expo.
“Keep On Smiling” Heroy (Independent; release date: June 27, 2025)
Central City Productions' “40th Stellar Gospel Music Awards” were held on August 16th, 2025 at the historic Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, TN.
LATEST 5 STAR REVIEWS
Fred Hammond I Will Trust RCA Inspiration (release date: November 17, 2014) www.rcainspiration.com By Bob Marovich One thing’s for sure: listen to Fred Hammond and you can't help but have a good time praising the Lord. His latest album, I Will Trust, is packed to the CD's brim with bracing musicianship, creative melodies and arrangements, [...]
Various Artists Motown Christmas Motown Gospel (2014) www.motowngospel.com By Bob Marovich Motown Christmas is the best yuletide album I have listened to in years. Gifted executive producer Aaron W. Lindsey (who also plays, writes, and sings on the album) seamlessly blends the old and the new with the sacred and secular to create an overall [...]
Bessie Jones with the Georgia Sea Island Singers and Others Get In Union: Recordings by Alan Lomax 1959-1966 Tompkins Square (released, October 28, 2014) www.tompkinssquare.com By Bob Marovich Students of ethnomusicology and folk music enthusiasts fortunate enough to hear the two or three LPs of Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers can tell [...]
Lecrae Anomaly Reach Records (2014) www.reachrecords.com By Bob Marovich Lecrae’s new CD, Anomaly, is Christian music’s most incisively honest, but at the same time most bravely hopeful, project this year. To Lecrae, being an anomaly, being an outsider, is both an advantage and disadvantage. On one hand, anomalies are outcasts who don’t fit in. At [...]
Evangelist Nelson Larkins & God’s Posse The Kind of God We Serve: Live in Chicago TREWWORKS Music Group/Deznell Music Group (2011) www.cdbaby.com/cd/nelsonlarkinsgodsposse By Bob Marovich It is always a pleasure to hear a live gospel quartet album that truly captures the excitement of a group having church. Such an album is The Kind of God [...]
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“Live Again” Kelontae Gavin From the Marquis Boone Enterprises LLC / RCA Inspiration album Testify (single release date: March 10, 2023)
“Move Upstairs” Tim Woodson and the Heirs of Harmony Marxan Records (release date: January 27, 2023)
“When Love Comes In” Jonathan Butler feat. Keb’ Mo’ From the Artistry Music / Mack Avenue Music Group album Ubuntu (release date: April 28, 2023)
“It Is Well” Monica Lisa Stevenson Blacksmoke Music Worldwide (release date: April 28, 2023)
“Heaven Belongs to You” The Wilson Family of Cades JEF Records (release date: March 7, 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 In 1970, Evangelist Myrna Summers burst on the gospel music scene on the strength of “God Gave Me a Song,” a composition she wrote and performed with the Interdenominational Youth Choir of Washington, DC and Maryland. It was so popular, Atlantic Records handed her a recording contract. The song earned a Grammy [...]
Last week, Deitrick Haddon spoke with Bob Marovich of the Journal of Gospel Music about his new album, Masterpiece, which Entertainment One will release this Friday, November 6. JGM: Masterpiece, the album, is being described as sort of a musical maturation on your part. Is that a fair assumption? DH: Absolutely. It definitely reflects where [...]
Photo Credit: Getty Images By Bob Marovich When tragedy struck Regina Love, it hit hard. She lost her son, father, and mother back to back. In 2014, a nephew committed suicide. That’s when a “still, small voice” within her—“I knew it was God,” she told the Journal of Gospel Music—persuaded her to renew [...]
One of the most passionate and anointed voices in gospel music was stilled this week when Mother Vernon Oliver Price passed away at the age of 93.
St. Louis gospel artist and businessman Austin Layne Jr. passed away on October 1 at age 87.
