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JGM Pick of the Week: April 26, 2022
“I Got Joy” The Dorsetts Independent (release date: January 6, 2022) By Robert M. Marovich Husband-and-wife duo Arnold and Sharee Dorsett—known as the Dorsetts—offer “I Got Joy,” a simple tune with an easy rhythm and a catchy refrain that not only establishes the premise of the song but invites a congregational singalong and possibly a pleasant earworm. The song takes for its text the latter half of John 16:22: “your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.” The Dorsetts hail from Wilmington, Delaware. As far as I can tell, this is their debut single.
Will Downing – The Promise
Will Downing The Promise Shanachie Entertainment (release date: November 30, 2018) www.shanachie.com By Bob Marovich Listening to R&B crooner Will Downing’s first gospel album, The Promise, is like hearing Peabo Bryson, George Benson, or Al Jarreau making a sacred album. It’s not surprising. Called “The Prince of Sophisticated Soul,” Downing [...]
Gospel Industry Exec’s Book Aims to Help Gospel Artists Grow, Develop
By Bob Marovich While her friends were listening to the singing stars of the day, a young Tracy Williamson was just as interested in who was producing the music, and how they did it, as who sung it. She charted the careers of legendary producers like Quincy Jones, Berry Gordy, [...]
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JGM Pick of the Week: April 26, 2022
“I Got Joy” The Dorsetts Independent (release date: January 6, 2022) By Robert M. Marovich Husband-and-wife duo Arnold and Sharee Dorsett—known as the Dorsetts—offer “I Got Joy,” a simple tune with an easy rhythm and a catchy refrain that not only establishes the premise of the song but invites a congregational singalong and possibly a pleasant earworm. The song takes for its text the latter half of John 16:22: “your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.” The Dorsetts hail from Wilmington, Delaware. As far as I can tell, this is their debut single.
Will Downing – The Promise
Will Downing The Promise Shanachie Entertainment (release date: November 30, 2018) www.shanachie.com By Bob Marovich Listening to R&B crooner Will Downing’s first gospel album, The Promise, is like hearing Peabo Bryson, George Benson, or Al Jarreau making a sacred album. It’s not surprising. Called “The Prince of Sophisticated Soul,” Downing [...]
Gospel Industry Exec’s Book Aims to Help Gospel Artists Grow, Develop
By Bob Marovich While her friends were listening to the singing stars of the day, a young Tracy Williamson was just as interested in who was producing the music, and how they did it, as who sung it. She charted the careers of legendary producers like Quincy Jones, Berry Gordy, [...]
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Soul of the ChurchHollywood Select Video/Infinity Entertainment Group (2010)The early Sixties were a particularly tumultuous time for African Americans. Marches in cities such as Birmingham and Selma were met with [...]
“I Believe”Neal RobersonFrom the Broken Chains Entertainment CD Lord, I Thank You (2010)www.BrokenChainsEntertainment.orgThe bracing title track of Bishop Neal Roberson’s debut album, Lord, I Thank You, released last month on [...]
Michelle BonillaIn Spite of MeRockSoul Productions (Digital Release: April 13, 2010)www.myspace.com/michellebonillamusicwww.michellebonilla.comOn the opening track of her sophomore album, In Spite of Me, Michelle Bonilla declares to the heavens, “This is [...]
More love for the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project, this time from St. Louis, home of Willie Mae Ford Smith, Brother Joe May, Martha and Fontella Bass, Rev. Cleophus Robinson [...]
The Gospel True Tones of Lexington, MSNo Friend Like JesusSharp Records 2009www.sharprecordsusa.comNo Friend Like Jesus by the Gospel True Tones of Lexington, Mississippi, is another recent release from Sharp Records, [...]
“Save Me”Christawn feat. Micah StampleyFrom the forthcoming CD Life StoryAbundant Harvest Entertainment/Universal Music Christian Group (release date: May 18, 2010)Guitars snarl and growl like demons unleashed during the introduction of [...]
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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.
