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BMI Celebrates the Best in Christian Music at the 2025 BMI Christian Awards
BMI celebrated the best in Christian music June 17 at the 2025 BMI Christian Awards held at its Nashville office on Music Row.
JGM Pick of the Week: June 11, 2025
“Bless Your Name” is a straightforward worship song based on the opening verses of Psalm 34, but where some worship leaders would play it straight, Tonya Baker juggles the melodic line like a jazz chanteuse.
Brent Jones – Praise in the Choir Stand
Brent Jones and the Best Life Choir’s rafter-raising Praise in the Choir Stand offers Sunday morning gospel chock full of R&B influences.
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BMI Celebrates the Best in Christian Music at the 2025 BMI Christian Awards
BMI celebrated the best in Christian music June 17 at the 2025 BMI Christian Awards held at its Nashville office on Music Row.
JGM Pick of the Week: June 11, 2025
“Bless Your Name” is a straightforward worship song based on the opening verses of Psalm 34, but where some worship leaders would play it straight, Tonya Baker juggles the melodic line like a jazz chanteuse.
Brent Jones – Praise in the Choir Stand
Brent Jones and the Best Life Choir’s rafter-raising Praise in the Choir Stand offers Sunday morning gospel chock full of R&B influences.
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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.
Amy Hillis’ “Thousand Tongues” is a sweetly-sung song of praise with lithe piano backing and a heartwarming string arrangement that tenderly embraces the melody.
“He’ll Make It Alright” by the Mighty Golden Wonders of Warren, Ohio, is a delicious slice of retro.
Bay Area blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter Maxx Cabello Jr. shows his sacred side on “God Is Good.”
LATEST 5 STAR REVIEWS
Picks: “Step Back and Watch Him Work,” “When All God’s Children (Mom’s Song)” (bonus track)
Picks: “Always Peace,” “Waiting,” “Call My Name”
Picks: “Heaven Help Us All,” “Bawo Xa Ndlalekayo”
Acrobat Music (release date: September 9, 2022)
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LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“Blessings” Yolanda Adams From the Epic Records album Sunny Days (album release date: September 13, 2024)
Mervin Mayo, the Richmond, Virginia, policeman whose gospel singing was caught on video in 2020 and subsequently went viral, sings “In This Place” with a gritty and instantly-compelling R&B-style vocal delivery.
“Rise” Jokia From the motion picture soundtrack Love Mountain Blacksmoke Music Worldwide (release date: May 17, 2024)
“Call On Him” Fantastik Violinaires feat. Danny Walker Millennium Sound Records (release date: September 27, 2024)
Based on Amos 9:13-15, “Suddenly” is an auspicious debut single from Christian Anderson, an accomplished and affecting Greensboro, North Carolina, singer.
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.
“If God gave me the gift to sing, why not use it?” By Robert M. Marovich There’s almost nothing that Dr. E. Dewey Smith hasn’t accomplished. A graduate of Morehouse College who went on to earn masters and doctorate degrees, Smith is an author, media and film producer, community leader, co-host of the first daytime [...]
By Robert M. Marovich “He may not come when you want Him, but He’s always right on time.” This church aphorism could be Pastor DeWayne Harvey’s personal motto. The early 2010s were a busy time for the Tallahassee, Florida, minister, entrepreneur, singer, songwriter, and producer. His 2011 release, The Report of the Lord, featuring the [...]
By Bob Marovich “I wanted to do something different.” That’s how multi-GRAMMY Award nominee and Stellar and Dove Awardee Jekalyn Carr describes Changing Your Story Live. Her new album is scheduled for release this Friday, October 23, on Lunjeal Music Group / The Orchard. The main difference between Changing Your Story Live and her previous [...]
Ed. Note: This remembrance, written by Kem Evans, is so affecting I want to share it with the Journal of Gospel Music readers. Mrs. Doris L. Brown is an example of the many thousands of music ministers who walk humbly with the Lord in their work and don't get nearly enough attention by the larger [...]
Rodessa Barrett Porter, the last of the original Barrett Sisters, passed away December 16, 2024, one day after her 94th birthday.
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