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RIP: Dr. James Abbington: Black Sacred Music Scholar, Musician, Music Minister, Author, Editor
JGM reports yet another significant loss to the gospel music community and, for me, the loss of a friend: the passing of Dr. James Abbington on September 27, 2025.
CeCe Winans Builds Global Legacy With Record-Breaking “More Than This” World Tour”
CeCe Winans' More Than This World Tour has expanded into a global phenomenon, marking her first international tour in more than a decade and reinforcing her influence as both an artist and evangelist.
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RIP: Dr. James Abbington: Black Sacred Music Scholar, Musician, Music Minister, Author, Editor
JGM reports yet another significant loss to the gospel music community and, for me, the loss of a friend: the passing of Dr. James Abbington on September 27, 2025.
CeCe Winans Builds Global Legacy With Record-Breaking “More Than This” World Tour”
CeCe Winans' More Than This World Tour has expanded into a global phenomenon, marking her first international tour in more than a decade and reinforcing her influence as both an artist and evangelist.
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“Devil Go Home” Creigh Riepe Independent (release date: June 13, 2025)
The Alliance Of Gospel Music Professionals To Host Inaugural Alliance at 2025 GMWA in Montgomery, AL
The GMWA will host its 58th Annual Convention in Montgomery, AL, July 13-18. During the convention, The Alliance will hold its sessions and the Inaugural Alliance Chairman Honors Awards Banquet.
“Heavenly Daughter” is a radio-sized single with a pop melody and arrangement, and country/CCM-inspired vocals courtesy of young Jamaican-born artist Ann-Marie, who lives in Manchester, UK.
This episode includes music reviewed on the Journal of Gospel Music between mid-March and late May 2025.
Celebration of Life Details for Producer Sanchez "Chez" Harley
LATEST 5 STAR REVIEWS
Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers Somewhere Beyond the Blue Billy Blue Records (release date: May 7, 2021) www.radioramblers.com By Robert M. Marovich On the eleven-track Somewhere Beyond the Blue, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers offer southern gospel singing bluegrass style in the tradition of the Louvin Brothers, Carl Story, and the Lewis Family. [...]
Pastor David Wright & NY Fellowship Mass Choir Miracles Godfather Records (release date: July 15, 2021) www.gracetabernacle.info By Robert M. Marovich For fans of contemporary gospel choirs, and especially for those who wonder where the choir went (it hasn’t gone anywhere) Pastor David Wright & NY Fellowship Mass Choir’s new release, Miracles, will delight. Although [...]
Jason Nelson Close Jaelyn Song Music /Tyscot / FairTrade (release date: August 6, 2021) By Robert M. Marovich The mark of an excellent gospel album is not just the superiority of the singing or the talent of the musicians but the solidness of the songs. Especially the songs. Jason Nelson’s Close contains enough new songs [...]
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 into place the final puzzle [...]
CeCe Winans Believe For It Fair Trade (release date: March 12, 2021) www.cecewinans.com By Robert M. Marovich CeCe Winans’s Believe For It is the singer's first non-holiday release in four years and her first live worship solo album. Listening to the album will lead one to consider the live recording environment as her sweet spot. [...]
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“There Wouldn’t Be a Me” Shonda English Gospel Diva Music (release date: January 23, 2024)
“Never Turn Back” Gregory G. Pearson feat. Angelena Starks Inner Court Music (release date: September 15, 2023)
Melvin Crispell III – the BET Sunday Best Season 9 champion – gives James Fryson’s classic composition “God Is” an easygoing shuffle tempo.
Bri Babineaux’s best single in a while, “Confident” lives up to its title in lyric and overall musical swagger.
“Wonder In My Soul” Pastor Stephen E. Boyd From the SB Entertainment album Chronicles of My Country Church Vol. 1 (release date: April 12, 2024)
Conversations with the Gospel Legends: Calvin Bridges
Check out the latest installment of "Conversations with the Gospel Legends," where our guest is singer, songwriter, director, and producer Calvin Bridges.
Conversations with the Gospel Legends: Dr. Lou Della Evans Reid
Check out the latest episode of "Conversations with the Gospel Legends." Our guest is Dr. Lou Della Evans Reid, longtime music minister for Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, and the sister of Fellowship founder Rev. Dr. Clay Evans. https://vimeo.com/195875665
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.
By Bob Marovich Last December, gospel artist Gene Moore was on top of the world. He had recently gotten married to the love of his life, and things were looking up. He had released his debut album, The Future, on Motown Gospel in 2016. Then the trials started. “First, my wife’s car broke down and [...]
By Bob Marovich If the leaders of Hammond, Louisiana, ever decided to change the town’s name, one contender in the running would be Showers, Louisiana. This Tangipahoa Parish town with a census of about 21,000 residents boasts no less than seven businesses owned and operated by members of the Showers Family. Gospel fans also know [...]
By Bob Marovich The collaboration between Stellar Award-winning Arkansas gospel quartet Tim Rogers and the Fellas and the Grammy-nominated R&B sensation Calvin Richardson that resulted in the Fellas’ latest single, “Hold Out,” began in the unlikeliest of places: an airport. Rogers and Richardson ran into one another while moving through the Memphis International Airport. Rogers [...]
By Robert M. Marovich Darrell Luster of Malaco Music Group informed JGM today that Huey Williams of the famed gospel quartet the Jackson Southernaires, passed away today, March 24, 2025. He was 86. Here is a biography of the Jackson Southernaires that I wrote for the Malaco Music Group website some years ago. Homegoing details [...]
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 [...]
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