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“I Count Everything as Joy” – Rev. Reginald W. Sharpe Jr. & Fellowship Chicago
"I Count Everything as Joy" is the lead single from Fellowship Chicago's new album, The Flow, which released digitally on April 3.
“Heaven Rules” – Reverend John Lee Hooker Jr.
“Heaven Rules” is a righteous variation on the talking blues, a sermonette by the Reverend John Lee Hooker Jr.—son of the famous bluesman—as preacher and a mixed choir as congregation.
JGM Pick of the Week: October 7, 2025
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“I Count Everything as Joy” – Rev. Reginald W. Sharpe Jr. & Fellowship Chicago
"I Count Everything as Joy" is the lead single from Fellowship Chicago's new album, The Flow, which released digitally on April 3.
“Heaven Rules” – Reverend John Lee Hooker Jr.
“Heaven Rules” is a righteous variation on the talking blues, a sermonette by the Reverend John Lee Hooker Jr.—son of the famous bluesman—as preacher and a mixed choir as congregation.
JGM Pick of the Week: October 7, 2025
“Blessings” Tanya Nolan Artsessionz (release date: February 7, 2025)
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Here are the 66th Annual GRAMMY Award winners in the various gospel categories.
Greenville, South Carolina, singer-songwriter Jayden Williams offers a bubbly ode of gratitude to Jesus on “Thank You, Lord.”
On the charming instrumental “Walking in the Light,” father-son inspirational jazz duo Elder Randall Ogans Sr. and Dorian Ogans evoke the image of a procession of believers swaggering into the light of God’s presence.
Join Northwestern’s Religious and Spiritual Life as they honor Professor L. Stanley Davis on Sunday, February 18th at 3:00pm CST at Alice Millar Chapel (1870 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL).
“Blessed My Soul” Jason Singleton & Friends From the Singletone Music Group CD The LowCountry Church Experience (release date: July 16, 2023) By Robert M. Marovich In what artist and [...]
Like hymns and early gospel songs. “He Knows Just How Much You Can Bear,” written in 1941 by Phyllis Hall and published by Roberta Martin, is as durable as an eighteenth-century armoire.
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“It’s All About You” Rev. Stef & Jubilation (independent, 2019) https://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/RevStefandJubilation By Bob Marovich The Reverend Dr. Stefanie Minatee, aka Rev. Stef, is back doing what she loves—directing Jubilation, the gospel choir that, among other achievements, backed Queen Latifah on the title track of the GRAMMY Award-winning various artists gospel compilation, Oh Happy Day (EMI, [...]
“Blessing Me” CHurCHicago Independent (release date: February 8, 2019) https://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/Churchicago By Bob Marovich The first couple of singles by CHurCHicago left me regretfully nonplussed, but their latest, “Blessing Me,” is a different story. A drive-tempo selection fitted with a fiery vamp and feisty guitar licks, “Blessing Me” is a plea for continued blessings in spite [...]
“Anchored”God’s PosseIndependent (release date: January 30, 2019) By Bob Marovich Acknowledging at the outset that “Anchored” is actually an old song with a new twist, God’s Posse of Chicago proceeds to provide an up-tempo reading of said old song, complete with soft harmonies, a lead-trading vamp, and contemporary arrangement. The metaphoric “Anchored” teaches that, in [...]
“He Has Been Good” Bernice Brown Gregory From the EP Faithful (EP release date: July 28, 2017) https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/bernicebrowngregory By Bob Marovich The opening track of Bernice Brown Gregory’s Faithful, an EP of relaxed contemporary praise songs and a digitally orchestrated version of “Great is Thy Faithfulness,” is an up-tempo churchy tune called “He Has Been [...]
“Deliver Me (This is My Exodus)” Donald Lawrence Presents the Tri-City Singers feat. Le’Andria Johnson From the forthcoming RCA Inspiration album Goshen (release date: February 1, 2019) www.rcainspiration.com By Bob Marovich Le’Andria Johnson has one of the most searing voices in gospel music today. But like any singer, or actor for that matter, the material [...]
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.
sexypangoth430 height Pastor Norris Turner. Photo Credit: Gethsemane Baptist Church By Bob Marovich The Journal of Gospel Music has learned that veteran quartet singer Pastor Norris Turner passed away yesterday evening. He was 81 years old. Norris Turner was born March 19, 1936, in Troy, South Carolina, to Johnnie and Helen Chiles Turner. [...]
NASHVILLE, December 11, 2017—William Ray “Bill” Hearn, a highly admired and revered music industry executive who led the Nashville-based market-leading Capitol Christian Music Group (CCMG) as its Chairman & CEO, passed away yesterday at age 58 in Nashville, Tennessee. Hearn successfully combined an unwavering vision, a commitment to excellence, and an arsenal of exceptional talent [...]
