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Pastor Mike Jr. has launched a bold and headline-grabbing social media initiative titled “PMJ vs AI.” The campaign challenges the growing presence of AI-generated artists and songs dominating Christian and Gospel music charts.
JGM Music Hour – Episode 185
This episode includes music reviewed on the Journal of Gospel Music between October 2025 and mid-January 2026.
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JGM Pick of the Week – April 28, 2026
“He’ll Fix It” The Marable Twins & Company From the 3Sonz Records album Grateful (release date: March 27, 2026)
Pastor Mike Jr. Sparks Industry Conversation with “PMJ Vs. AI” Campaign
Pastor Mike Jr. has launched a bold and headline-grabbing social media initiative titled “PMJ vs AI.” The campaign challenges the growing presence of AI-generated artists and songs dominating Christian and Gospel music charts.
JGM Music Hour – Episode 185
This episode includes music reviewed on the Journal of Gospel Music between October 2025 and mid-January 2026.
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Jo Jo Wallace, the famed guitarist and quartet singer, passed from earthly labor to heavenly reward on May 7, 2025, at age 98.
With Mother’s Day nearing, John P. Kee’s latest solo release, “Mother, I Miss You,” as Pick of the Week is appropriate.
The Thomas Whitfield Company and the Detroit gospel family lost tenor singer Ronald J. Kelly and keyboardist extraordinaire Bishop Earl Jerome Wright, Jr. in the space of mere days.
Brent Jones’ latest single, “Praise in the Choir Stand,” is a hand clapper set to a loping tempo where the spotlight is not on the soloist but on the singers moving and grooving in their robes.
Like his 2018 compilation Bible of Love, Snoop Dogg’s new Death Row production, Altar Call, is the genuine article.
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hot pics Roseanne CastilloCharles Jenkins & Fellowship Chicago The Best of Both Worlds EMI Gospel/Inspired People (2012) www.emigospel.com By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog. It could not have been easy for Charles Jenkins to succeed the iconic Rev. Dr. Clay Evans as Pastor of Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago. Evans, a Civil [...]
Reverend John Wilkins You Can’t Hurry God Fat Possum Records/Big Legal Mess (2010) http://www.biglegalmessrecords.com/ Talk about old school. On You Can’t Hurry God, Reverend John Wilkins takes us way back into the North Mississippi Hill Country for sacred music, guitar evangelist style. The result is an album with the simple authenticity of an Alan Lomax [...]
Frontlynaz Game Over Frontlynaz, Inc. 2008 www.frontlynaz.com Say what you will about Holy Hip Hop, but the Stellar-nominated HHH group Frontlynaz spits rhymes and drops beats with the power and urgency of a brakeless freight train. Their Game Over grabbed my attention and held it with clenched fists from beginning to end. Captivating and compelling, [...]
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“Great God” Demetrius West and Jesus Promoters feat. Lisa Carter-Cork From the Blacksmoke Music Worldwide album Old Fellowship Hour (release date: November 4, 2022)
“This Child of Bethlehem” Amanda Joy Powell Independent (release date: December 1, 2020)
“Ain’t Nothin’ But a Cloud” Mariah Hlatywayo From the EP Ain't Nothin' But a Cloud (release date: October 22, 2022)
Anointed Sounds Records (release date: August 5, 2022)
“God is Great” | Kara Nichole | Independent (release date: September 5, 2022)
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.
Dr. Feranda Williamson By Bob Marovich Its fifteenth album, Live XV, is still impacting gospel radio, but the Chicago Mass Choir is preparing for the future by re-signing with its former label home, New Haven Records. “We were with New Haven before,” Chicago Mass Choir President and CEO Dr. Feranda Williamson told the [...]
By Bob Marovich In some ways, it was like attending a gospel music hall of fame event wrapped inside a live recording session. The Clark Sisters were seated in the front row. Richard Smallwood sat behind them. Rows of gospel announcers, gospel music producers, and popular singers were to their left and right. Chicago’s House [...]
By Bob Marovich for the Journal of Gospel Music If Richard Smallwood had his druthers, the autobiography he is writing would have been released simultaneously with his new album, the two-CD Anthology Live. The album, recorded with his group, Vision, is essentially the "musical soundtrack" to his autobiography. But the music came first, and Anthology [...]
By Robert M. Marovich JGM is saddened to learn of the passing of Carnell Murrell. Here is a short bio we contributed to the Malaco Music Group website some years ago: Born in Detroit on June 25, 1962, gospel songwriter, group leader, musician and singer Carnell Murrell spent his early life plagued by one difficulty [...]
JGM announces the passing of gospel quartet singer and group leader Robert Dixon of the Salem Travelers.
