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Nona Brown – Songs From My Journal, Volume 2
Nona BrownSongs From My Journal, Volume 2Signature Music Group (release date: August 27, 2022)https://nonabrown.org/By Robert M. MarovichBay Area singer-songwriter Nona Brown’s new album is a follow-up to her Songs From My Journal, Volume 1. On this second volume and live outing, she sings her way through a stack of worship songs from her own portfolio.The energetic “All Unto You” is a conventional worship service opener, with plenty of call-and-response between Brown and her background vocalists. The late tenor Leonard Conner is featured vocalist and duets with Brown on “Praises to You,” a mellow but all-too-brief component of what she describes [...]
Chip Bailey – The Music in Me
Chip Bailey The Music in Me ABBII Music (release date: April 20, 2019) www.officialchipbailey.com By Bob Marovich Up to this point, Anthony “Chip” Bailey” has been a singer, musician, songwriter, and composer for other gospel artists. In his debut recording, The Music in Me, Bailey proves his own mettle in [...]
Gloria Gaynor Sings Her Testimony
By Bob Marovich From time to time, such as on major holidays or when the young people’s choir was singing, young Gloria Fowles and her family accompanied their grandmother to Abyssinian Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. At Abyssinian, they would listen to sermons from its pastor, the Reverend Raphus [...]
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Nona Brown – Songs From My Journal, Volume 2
Nona BrownSongs From My Journal, Volume 2Signature Music Group (release date: August 27, 2022)https://nonabrown.org/By Robert M. MarovichBay Area singer-songwriter Nona Brown’s new album is a follow-up to her Songs From My Journal, Volume 1. On this second volume and live outing, she sings her way through a stack of worship songs from her own portfolio.The energetic “All Unto You” is a conventional worship service opener, with plenty of call-and-response between Brown and her background vocalists. The late tenor Leonard Conner is featured vocalist and duets with Brown on “Praises to You,” a mellow but all-too-brief component of what she describes [...]
Chip Bailey – The Music in Me
Chip Bailey The Music in Me ABBII Music (release date: April 20, 2019) www.officialchipbailey.com By Bob Marovich Up to this point, Anthony “Chip” Bailey” has been a singer, musician, songwriter, and composer for other gospel artists. In his debut recording, The Music in Me, Bailey proves his own mettle in [...]
Gloria Gaynor Sings Her Testimony
By Bob Marovich From time to time, such as on major holidays or when the young people’s choir was singing, young Gloria Fowles and her family accompanied their grandmother to Abyssinian Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. At Abyssinian, they would listen to sermons from its pastor, the Reverend Raphus [...]
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The first three persons to email TBGB at bob@gospelmemories.com with the correct answer to the following question will win superstar Kim Burrell's The Love Album, courtesy of Shanachie Entertainment.Q: What’s the name of the [...]
Eddie RobinsonThis is My Story, This is My SongThe Sirens Records (2011)www.thesirensrecords.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Eddie Robinson isn’t a household name in gospel music, but he should [...]
And she was: Dorothy Norwood appeared as part of the Malaco Records showcase during the 2011 GMWA Quartet Division celebration last night at the Tampa Convention Center. Monica Lisa Stevenson [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Quartets were there before gospel, they're here today, and will still be around tomorrow!That was the sentiment Wednesday evening, August 17, as the [...]
GIThe Next DimensionBGA Records (2011)http://www.giforever.com/The youthful harmonies of GI (God’s Image) call to mind the early work of Boyz II Men and a techno-fueled version of New Edition. This Virginia-based [...]
“If God Has a Face”Zacardi Cortez feat. John Legend and ScarfaceFrom the forthcoming Black Smoke Media CD CoCo Brother Presents Gospel Mix Vol. V (street date: September 27, 2011)Zacardi Cortez, [...]
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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.
