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“Let God” Eloise https://www.facebook.com/eloise.skief By Robert M. Marovich With “Let God,” Tyler, Texas, gospel singer Eloise Skief, who goes by Eloise, delivers a lovely meditation on the familiar "let go and let God" trope. The sparse piano accompaniment allows Eloise to improvise vocally, though she doesn’t go overboard. In fact, it’s her controlled ornamentation that sells the song. She takes a repetitive melody line and endows it with sufficient variety to keep the listener engaged. Though she plays it cool here, there's an underlying energy that suggests she can offer up an explosion of musicality if a song calls for [...]
Koryn Hawthorne – Unstoppable
Koryn Hawthorne Unstoppable RCA Inspiration (release date: July 13, 2018) www.rcainspiration.com By Bob Marovich Hearing just the first few bluesy bars of the Jimi Hendrix-like fuzz guitar that open Koryn Hawthorne’s “Warriors,” the opening track on her full-length solo album, Unstoppable, you know you are in for a sonic adventure. [...]
The Sons of the Soul Revivers: Live! Rancho Nicasio
The Sons of the Soul Revivers Live! Rancho Nicasio Little Village Foundation www.littlevillagefoundation.org By Bob Marovich The Sons of the Soul Revivers are on a quest to achieve the kind of widespread visibility that the Blind Boys of Alabama and the Fairfield Four have enjoyed for the past three decades. Based [...]
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JGM Pick of the Week – January 31, 2022
“Let God” Eloise https://www.facebook.com/eloise.skief By Robert M. Marovich With “Let God,” Tyler, Texas, gospel singer Eloise Skief, who goes by Eloise, delivers a lovely meditation on the familiar "let go and let God" trope. The sparse piano accompaniment allows Eloise to improvise vocally, though she doesn’t go overboard. In fact, it’s her controlled ornamentation that sells the song. She takes a repetitive melody line and endows it with sufficient variety to keep the listener engaged. Though she plays it cool here, there's an underlying energy that suggests she can offer up an explosion of musicality if a song calls for [...]
Koryn Hawthorne – Unstoppable
Koryn Hawthorne Unstoppable RCA Inspiration (release date: July 13, 2018) www.rcainspiration.com By Bob Marovich Hearing just the first few bluesy bars of the Jimi Hendrix-like fuzz guitar that open Koryn Hawthorne’s “Warriors,” the opening track on her full-length solo album, Unstoppable, you know you are in for a sonic adventure. [...]
The Sons of the Soul Revivers: Live! Rancho Nicasio
The Sons of the Soul Revivers Live! Rancho Nicasio Little Village Foundation www.littlevillagefoundation.org By Bob Marovich The Sons of the Soul Revivers are on a quest to achieve the kind of widespread visibility that the Blind Boys of Alabama and the Fairfield Four have enjoyed for the past three decades. Based [...]
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“Lord Keep Me,” “I Can’t Give Up,” and “Fall Fresh” Monica Lisa Stevenson From the Puretonez Productions CD Finally…In God’s Time 2009 http://www.monicazmuzik.com/ Monica Lisa Stevenson is a firebrand of [...]
Bernd Grimmel from Germany provided this sad news to TBGB:"Gloryland Gospel announced the passing of Mildred Miller Howard, former member of Birmingham's great Gospel Harmonettes. Mildred Howard joined the Harmonettes [...]
“Leak in this Old Building”Eddie Ruth BradfordFrom the CD Reflections (street date: July 14, 2009) www.eddieruthbradfordmusic.comClarksdale, Mississippi is a great address for a blues singer and apparently for a traditional [...]
Delandria MillsManifestationDemi Music 2008www.myspace.com/kingdomflutistDespite her youth, inspirational jazz artist Delandria Mills sounds like a product of the 1950s and 1960s era of the small jazz combo. As a result, Mills’ [...]
From a press release:July 14, 2009 - (New York, NY) Central South Distribution, Inc., which has been the number one independent faith based record distributor in the world for the [...]
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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.
