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Ellen Hayes – We Owe It All to You
Ellen Hayes We Owe It All to You Songs & Melodies Records, LLC (release date: February 6, 2022) www.meetellenhayes.com By Robert M. Marovich Any new album featuring A. Jeffrey LaValley is going to grab my attention. LaValley, the veteran gospel musician whose “Revelations 19:1” was famously sampled on Kanye West’s Jesus is King, wrote a couple of instrumentals and handles keys for some tracks on Ellen Hayes’s solo album, We Owe It All to You. Thanks to solid songwriting from Hayes, Michael Mindingall, and Sean Hardin, the album contains a greater number of individually distinctive and quality gospel songs than [...]
Fred Hammond – The Best of Fred Hammond
Fred Hammond The Best of Fred Hammond Verity Records (release date: June 15, 2018) www.verityrecords.com By Bob Marovich With his husky voice and preacher-like confidence in front of a congregation or audience, Fred Hammond is a solid contender for the title Prince of Power Praise. The hour-plus retrospective The Best [...]
GMA Announces Nominees for 49th Annual GMA Dove Awards, October 16 in Nashville
THE 49TH ANNUAL GMA DOVE AWARDS NOMINEES ANNOUNCED TODAY WITH TAUREN WELLS LEADING ARTIST NOMINATIONS WITH SEVEN AND ZACH WILLIAMS WITH SIX CORY ASBURY, TASHA COBBS LEONARD AND TOBYMAC HONORED WITH FIVE NODS EACH Awards to be held live Tuesday, October 16, at Lipscomb University and will air on TBN [...]
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Bob Marovich of the Journal of Gospel Music interviews gospel recording artist Lil Prince.
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Ellen Hayes – We Owe It All to You
Ellen Hayes We Owe It All to You Songs & Melodies Records, LLC (release date: February 6, 2022) www.meetellenhayes.com By Robert M. Marovich Any new album featuring A. Jeffrey LaValley is going to grab my attention. LaValley, the veteran gospel musician whose “Revelations 19:1” was famously sampled on Kanye West’s Jesus is King, wrote a couple of instrumentals and handles keys for some tracks on Ellen Hayes’s solo album, We Owe It All to You. Thanks to solid songwriting from Hayes, Michael Mindingall, and Sean Hardin, the album contains a greater number of individually distinctive and quality gospel songs than [...]
Fred Hammond – The Best of Fred Hammond
Fred Hammond The Best of Fred Hammond Verity Records (release date: June 15, 2018) www.verityrecords.com By Bob Marovich With his husky voice and preacher-like confidence in front of a congregation or audience, Fred Hammond is a solid contender for the title Prince of Power Praise. The hour-plus retrospective The Best [...]
GMA Announces Nominees for 49th Annual GMA Dove Awards, October 16 in Nashville
THE 49TH ANNUAL GMA DOVE AWARDS NOMINEES ANNOUNCED TODAY WITH TAUREN WELLS LEADING ARTIST NOMINATIONS WITH SEVEN AND ZACH WILLIAMS WITH SIX CORY ASBURY, TASHA COBBS LEONARD AND TOBYMAC HONORED WITH FIVE NODS EACH Awards to be held live Tuesday, October 16, at Lipscomb University and will air on TBN [...]
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“Dance – The CampShake”Jules “Juda” and the JudaCamp (JudaMuzik 2009)www.myspace.com/judacamp“Now that I got these shackles off, I’m gonna dance.”And dance they do. I dare you not to follow suit when [...]
“G.O.D. Remix”Canton Jones, feat. Big RanFrom the forthcoming CAJO International album Kingdom Business 2 (scheduled release date: October 6, 2009)www.cantonjones.netOpening like a ‘90s era Seal single, the disembodied voice of [...]
The Memphis-based multi-platinum hardcore rap group Three 6 Mafia is best known for being the first African American rap group to win an Oscar for Best Original Song (“It’s Hard [...]
This Christian comedy break, featuring Miss Clareese, is courtesy of "Gospel Talk" with Mona Austin, a show that airs in Fairfax, Virginia.
Mr. J. Medeiros Friends Enemies Apples Apples (available September 20, 2009) www.MrJMedeiros.com Born of Portugese and Scottish descent, Mr. J. Medeiros (pronounced Mah-DEAR-es) became enamored with the hip hop world [...]
Robert Dixon and the Original Salem TravelersThe Return of Robert Dixon and the Original Salem TravelersTrue 2 U Corporation 2004www.cdbaby.com/cd/robertdixonIn the 1960s and 1970s, the Salem Travelers of Chicago were [...]
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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.












