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DOE – Clarity
DOE Clarity RCA Inspiration / Life Room (release date: February 18, 2022) www.rcainspiration.com By Robert M. Marovich An extension of DOE’s self-titled 2001 EP, Clarity has the gentle, intimate vibe associated with the Grammy-nominated songwriter and former lead singer of forever JONES. But if the grooves are dreamy and some songs gush with gratitude, others are earnest expressions of vulnerability and imperfection. All point to God as the mooring in a complex world. For example, on “When I Pray,” DOE sings everyone's quiet part out loud: “I’m not very eloquent in speech / I don’t always know how to sound [...]
“So Glad” – Lady Voncile Belcher
“So Glad” Lady Voncile Belcher Glory Bound Records (release date: June 15, 2018) By Bob Marovich When Lady Voncile Belcher opens her mouth to sing, you know she has been formed in the crucible of traditional gospel music. On her latest single, “So Glad,” Lady Voncile sings and shouts unbridled exclamations [...]
“You Reign” – Deanna Ransom
“You Reign” Deanna Ransom LizaRan Music (release date: April 17, 2018) www.deannaransom.com By Bob Marovich Songstress Deanna Ransom hits “You Reign” out of the park. This praise song works because its simmering, repetitive four-chord foundation gives Ransom plenty of room to improvise, especially at the conclusion, where she runs up and [...]
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DOE – Clarity
DOE Clarity RCA Inspiration / Life Room (release date: February 18, 2022) www.rcainspiration.com By Robert M. Marovich An extension of DOE’s self-titled 2001 EP, Clarity has the gentle, intimate vibe associated with the Grammy-nominated songwriter and former lead singer of forever JONES. But if the grooves are dreamy and some songs gush with gratitude, others are earnest expressions of vulnerability and imperfection. All point to God as the mooring in a complex world. For example, on “When I Pray,” DOE sings everyone's quiet part out loud: “I’m not very eloquent in speech / I don’t always know how to sound [...]
“So Glad” – Lady Voncile Belcher
“So Glad” Lady Voncile Belcher Glory Bound Records (release date: June 15, 2018) By Bob Marovich When Lady Voncile Belcher opens her mouth to sing, you know she has been formed in the crucible of traditional gospel music. On her latest single, “So Glad,” Lady Voncile sings and shouts unbridled exclamations [...]
“You Reign” – Deanna Ransom
“You Reign” Deanna Ransom LizaRan Music (release date: April 17, 2018) www.deannaransom.com By Bob Marovich Songstress Deanna Ransom hits “You Reign” out of the park. This praise song works because its simmering, repetitive four-chord foundation gives Ransom plenty of room to improvise, especially at the conclusion, where she runs up and [...]
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Pianist Eric Scott Reed informed TBGB that composer and conductor Dr. Wesley A. Boyd, formerly of the Richard Smallwood Singers and founder of the Wesley Boyd Gospel Music Workshop, died [...]
Shirley SmithIn Hymn I TrustThe Sirens Records 2009www.thesirensrecords.comIn Hymn I Trust, singer-pianist Shirley Smith’s debut recording for The Sirens Records, is a sweet album of sing-along hymns and congregational gospel [...]
“I Feel Like Going On”Marvin L. WinansFrom the World Wide Gospel albumThe Gospel Music Celebration, Part I: Tribute to Bishop G.E. Patterson www.gospeltruthmagazine.comAfter a grand flourish from a Hammond B3, [...]
Gospel singer Jerry Boose took time from a busy schedule, including pastoring a Toledo, Ohio church and serving as a fireman, to tell TBGB about his gospel group, First Creation.Boose [...]
Micah StampleyRansomedInterface Entertainment/Central South Distribution 2009www.micahstampley.orgI first became acquainted with praise and worship singer Micah Stampley when he crooned the soothing “Take My Life” on T.D. Jakes’ 2004 He-Motions project [...]
Carl Whittaker & Exhortation Afterwhile BOG Records 2009 www.bogrecords.biz “I am Elder Abraham Isaac Jacob Swanson the Twelfth.” Yes, it is THE Pastor Abraham Swanson XII who introduces Carl Whittaker [...]
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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.
