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“It's Morning” Latrice Pace From the forthcoming album Exodus: The Journey of Obedience Volume 2 (single release date: July 14, 2023)
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“Saved and Sanctified” The Highway QCs feat. Spencer Taylor Jr. From Live at the 2021 Gospel Inaugural Celebration (release date: March 6, 2021) By Robert M. Marovich On the heels of his autobiography, A General Becomes a Legend, Godfather of Quartet Music Spencer Taylor Jr. joins his fellow Highway QCs [...]
“Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus! Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community” by Robert L. Stone (book review)
Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus! Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community. By Robert L. Stone. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 192 pp. (hardcover). Illustrations, Extended Photo Captions, Notes. ISBN 978-1-4968-3150-7. $40.00 By Robert M. Marovich With Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus! Florida historian and folklorist Robert Stone presses [...]
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Bob Marovich of the Journal of Gospel Music interviews gospel recording artist Lil Prince.
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JGM Pick of the Week – July 25, 2023
“It's Morning” Latrice Pace From the forthcoming album Exodus: The Journey of Obedience Volume 2 (single release date: July 14, 2023)
JGM Pick of the Week: March 30, 2021
“Saved and Sanctified” The Highway QCs feat. Spencer Taylor Jr. From Live at the 2021 Gospel Inaugural Celebration (release date: March 6, 2021) By Robert M. Marovich On the heels of his autobiography, A General Becomes a Legend, Godfather of Quartet Music Spencer Taylor Jr. joins his fellow Highway QCs [...]
“Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus! Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community” by Robert L. Stone (book review)
Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus! Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community. By Robert L. Stone. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 192 pp. (hardcover). Illustrations, Extended Photo Captions, Notes. ISBN 978-1-4968-3150-7. $40.00 By Robert M. Marovich With Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus! Florida historian and folklorist Robert Stone presses [...]
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Read the article here:Courthouse News ServiceSeems to me the crux of the situation is this:"None of the defendants contacted either of the plaintiffs to ask for permission to use plaintiffs' [...]
“You’re Right On Time”Gloria GaynorFrom the CD We Will Survive (release date: November 26, 2013)www.gloriagaynor.comGloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” was the anthem of a generation. So entranced was I with [...]
Clara Ward and the Famous Ward SingersGospel Friend (2013)www.gospelfriend.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel BlogListening to Per Notini’s second volume of Ward Singers reissues, available on his Gospel Friend [...]
It is with great sadness that TBGB reports William R. Hamilton, minister of music at Chicago's historic New Covenant M.B. Church (Rev. Stephen J. Thurston, Pastor), transitioned from labor to earthly [...]
“Keep Knocking”The Canton SpiritualsMalaco Records (2013)www.malaco.comThe Canton Spirituals put Canton, Mississippi, on the map when Harvey Watkins Sr. organized the quartet in 1946. Their 1995 Live In Memphis (Blackberry) sold [...]
Lorenza Brown Porter confirmed to TBGB this morning that Rebecca Nixon, a longtime member of gospel recording group the Argo Singers, passed away last week after an illness.Nixon first appeared [...]
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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.
