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“Our Hearts Belong to You” – Shawn Everette
“Our Hearts Belong to You” Shawn Everette From the Soul Levite Music album Changing Me (release date: July 31, 2020) By Robert M. Marovich With prominent acoustic guitar, “Our Hearts Belong to You” is a worship song by Baltimore indie gospel artist Shawn Everette. It opens gently and builds in intensity to a meaty gospel vamp with a rhythm section that includes a warmly purring organ. A sweet melody energetically sung envelopes a message of love to Jesus for saving the world by sacrificing his life. Talented songwriter and well-constructed song.
Ian Copeland Green – I Still Believe
Ian Copeland Green I Still Believe Cyrus Records (release date: August 7, 2019) By Bob Marovich Ian Copeland Green’s album I Still Believe may traverse different shades of gospel music, but the pop melodies, club-sized beats, and electronica of twenty-first century radio hits are the ties that bind the project [...]
The Jewell Gospel Trio: Many Little Angels in the Band
The Jewell Gospel Trio Many Little Angels in the Band NarroWay Records (release date: October 18, 2019) www.gospelfriend.se By Bob Marovich (as originally featured in Living Blues magazine) Any discourse on music of the Church of the Living God, Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Jewell Dominion typically turns to [...]
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“Our Hearts Belong to You” – Shawn Everette
“Our Hearts Belong to You” Shawn Everette From the Soul Levite Music album Changing Me (release date: July 31, 2020) By Robert M. Marovich With prominent acoustic guitar, “Our Hearts Belong to You” is a worship song by Baltimore indie gospel artist Shawn Everette. It opens gently and builds in intensity to a meaty gospel vamp with a rhythm section that includes a warmly purring organ. A sweet melody energetically sung envelopes a message of love to Jesus for saving the world by sacrificing his life. Talented songwriter and well-constructed song.
Ian Copeland Green – I Still Believe
Ian Copeland Green I Still Believe Cyrus Records (release date: August 7, 2019) By Bob Marovich Ian Copeland Green’s album I Still Believe may traverse different shades of gospel music, but the pop melodies, club-sized beats, and electronica of twenty-first century radio hits are the ties that bind the project [...]
The Jewell Gospel Trio: Many Little Angels in the Band
The Jewell Gospel Trio Many Little Angels in the Band NarroWay Records (release date: October 18, 2019) www.gospelfriend.se By Bob Marovich (as originally featured in Living Blues magazine) Any discourse on music of the Church of the Living God, Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Jewell Dominion typically turns to [...]
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“Holy Ghost”StormFrom the forthcoming Cardinal Records CD God Is True (2011)http://www.stormiam.com/When Washington, DC hip hop artist Storm raps about having the Holy Ghost, you don’t envision him shouting in the [...]
Brian McCollum of the Detroit Free Press reports on the start of BeBe and CeCe Winans' farewell tour in their hometown of Detroit. The Grammy Award-winning brother-sister duo, who will receive [...]
Jonathan DuBose, Jr.Releasing the SpiritJoBo Records (2007)http://www.jdubose.com/Jonathan DuBose, Jr. is the Hal Blaine of gospel music.Known as “The Prophesying Guitarist,” DuBose has played a supporting role, supplying the guitar parts for [...]
“It’s Not Over”Robert Earl DeanSEP Productions 2011robertearldean@hotmail.comTo a relentless mid-tempo R&B ostinato, complete with handclapping on the backbeat, Robert Earl Dean and his background vocalists revisit the familiar church declaration, [...]
“Because of You”Carnell MurrellAvailable on iTunes (2011)“Because of You” is another restful, easy praise song that Minister Carnell Murrell is so talented at composing and performing. His tender piano accompaniment [...]
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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.
