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“Let Him In” Flint Cavaliers feat. Pastor Shawn Brown From the Flint Music Group album The Fellowship (Psalms 133:1) (album release date: March 15, 2024)
Regina Vandereijk – The Lord is There
The Lord is There is the first full-length album by CCM singer Regina Vandereijk and the follow-up to her spectacular 2024 EP Love Called Her Home, which included “Jesus,” JGM’s Best Song of 2024.
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“He Will Heal the Land” Rev. Hayward Anderson & the Davis Chorale Singers Anderson Music Group (release date: August 26, 2024)
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JGM Pick of the Week: February 18, 2025
“Let Him In” Flint Cavaliers feat. Pastor Shawn Brown From the Flint Music Group album The Fellowship (Psalms 133:1) (album release date: March 15, 2024)
Regina Vandereijk – The Lord is There
The Lord is There is the first full-length album by CCM singer Regina Vandereijk and the follow-up to her spectacular 2024 EP Love Called Her Home, which included “Jesus,” JGM’s Best Song of 2024.
JGM Pick of the Week: January 28, 2025
“He Will Heal the Land” Rev. Hayward Anderson & the Davis Chorale Singers Anderson Music Group (release date: August 26, 2024)
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Marking a new chapter under the Daywind Music Group umbrella, the legendary Southern Gospel group LeFevre Quartet announces their partnership with Daywind Records.
This episode includes music reviewed on the Journal of Gospel Music between mid-July and late September 2024.
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Melvin Crispell III – the BET Sunday Best Season 9 champion – gives James Fryson’s classic composition “God Is” an easygoing shuffle tempo.
The Ring Music Group is proud to announce its involvement in the PBS film series RENEGADES, contributing original music for three of five pivotal episodes in the series.
Singer-songwriter DOE has repainted the time-tested prayer room in shades of neo-soul and introspective acoustic sounds.
LATEST 5 STAR REVIEWS
Jekalyn Carr Changing Your Story Live! Lunjeal/The Orchard (release date: October 23, 2020) www.iamjekalyncarr.com By Bob Marovich Jekalyn Carr has achieved more by age 23 than most people will accomplish in a lifetime. With six Top 10 gospel singles under her belt, four hitting number one, plus several albums, a book, an e-course, acting credentials, [...]
Brian Courtney Wilson Still Motown Gospel (release date: October 16, 2020) www.motowngospel.com By Bob Marovich Whether its messages are explicit or implicit, gospel music at its finest tells listeners of all beliefs—and even those with no belief—that hope is a beacon in the midst of hopelessness, encouragement exists for the discouraged, and comfort is available [...]
PJ Morton Gospel According to PJ Morton Inspiration / Tyscot (digital release date: August 14, 2020; physical release date: November 27, 2020) www.tyscot.com By Bob Marovich Much is being made about Gospel According to PJ being PJ Morton’s return to gospel. But like the Reverend C. L. Franklin said of his GRAMMY-winning daughter Aretha, Bishop [...]
Fisk Jubilee Singers Celebrating Fisk! (The 150th Anniversary Album) Curb (release date: August 10, 2020) www.fiskjubileesingers.org By Bob Marovich On the eve of the sesquicentennial of its founding, the Fisk Jubilee Singers have released an album more musically and culturally diverse than any of its other recordings, going back more than a century. Founded in [...]
Nashville Life Music Here for Jesus Integrity Music (release date: July 17, 2020) www.nashvillelifemusic.com By Bob Marovich Nashville Life Music follows up last year’s Taylor House Sessions EP with even more delightful selections on its debut full-length album, Here for Jesus. Nashville Life Music is a young multicultural choir/group out of Nashville Life Church, a [...]
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“No Stressing” Damon Little feat. Angie Stone Little World Music (release date: May 16, 2023)
Warm, energetic, and with a longstanding passion for churchy gospel music, Bishop Neal Roberson injects each of these characteristics into his new single, “Keeps on Making a Way.”
“Live Your Best Life” Brent Jones JDI Records (release date: February 12, 2024)
Veteran singer CeCe Winans has the training, the talent, the experience, and the chops to put any song over. Her new single, “That’s My King,” is no exception.
“Have Mercy O Grace” Armstead Ford ft. God’s Harvesters Independent (release date: October 27, 2023)
Conversations with the Gospel Legends: Pastor Lottie Woods-Hall
This is a very important interview for anyone who wants to know more about the Civil Rights Movement. Pastor Lottie Woods-Hall was on the front lines of the 1963 Birmingham Movement. She talks about her work with the movement, going to jail with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., [...]
“Conversations with the Gospel Legends:” Pastor Mitty Collier
Remember "I Had a Talk With My Man Last Night?" Hear from the lady who made it famous! Bob Marovich talks with Pastor Mitty Collier about her career in gospel and soul music, as well as her current ministry. "Conversations with the Gospel Legends," a production of Rev. Harold Bailey's [...]
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 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, Sean “P Diddy” Combs, and—closer [...]
By Bob Marovich Few gospel artists can claim to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Only one, to my knowledge, can also boast that a major prop from his former band is now on display in the Smithsonian. Calvin Simon can lay claim to both. As a founding member of the popular [...]
By Bob Marovich After the release of his Billboard-charting School of Roses in 2014, Christon Gray had no idea what was coming. “I didn’t know that I would be going through a separation and then a divorce,” Gray told the Journal of Gospel Music. “I didn’t know that I would be moving. I didn’t know [...]
By Robert M. Marovich JGM is saddened to learn of the passing of gospel singer, songwriter, and percussionist Sandra Elaine Crouch on Sunday, March 17, 2024, at age 81. Born July 1, 1942, to Benjamin and Catherine Crouch, Sandra was the twin sister of Andrae' Crouch. As part of the COGICs--with Billy Preston ("the fifth [...]
Darrell Luster of Malaco Music Group informed the Journal of Gospel Music that Henry Green, a longtime member of the Williams Brothers gospel quartet, passed away on Sunday, February 4, 2024, at the age of 80.