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Imari Tones – Coming Back Alive
Coming Back Alive, the title of the group's nineteenth full-length album, is not metaphorical.
RIP Huey Williams of the Jackson Southernaires
By Robert M. Marovich Darrell Luster of Malaco Music Group informed JGM today that Huey Williams of the famed gospel quartet the Jackson Southernaires, passed away today, March 24, 2025. He was 86. Here is a biography of the Jackson Southernaires that I wrote for the Malaco Music Group website [...]
JGM Pick of the Week – March 18, 2025
“Jesus” Eldrick Rodgers feat. Michelle Prather Independent (release date: August 30, 2024)
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Imari Tones – Coming Back Alive
Coming Back Alive, the title of the group's nineteenth full-length album, is not metaphorical.
RIP Huey Williams of the Jackson Southernaires
By Robert M. Marovich Darrell Luster of Malaco Music Group informed JGM today that Huey Williams of the famed gospel quartet the Jackson Southernaires, passed away today, March 24, 2025. He was 86. Here is a biography of the Jackson Southernaires that I wrote for the Malaco Music Group website [...]
JGM Pick of the Week – March 18, 2025
“Jesus” Eldrick Rodgers feat. Michelle Prather Independent (release date: August 30, 2024)
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This episode includes music reviewed on the Journal of Gospel Music between mid-October and late December 2024.
To update his 2007 Christmas song “The Savior Has Come,” gospel singer Bryan Andrew Wilson turned to New Orleans’s GRAMMY Award-winning Rebirth Brass Band to give it appropriate punch.
CeCe Winans’ take on the classic Christmas carol “Angels We Have Heard on High” is massive, orchestral, and as dramatic as a Broadway production number.
Rodessa Barrett Porter, the last of the original Barrett Sisters, passed away December 16, 2024, one day after her 94th birthday.
“Rise” Jokia From the motion picture soundtrack Love Mountain Blacksmoke Music Worldwide (release date: May 17, 2024)
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
“Jesus Dropped the Charges” Earl Bynum and Phillip Carter SOV Inc. (release date: March 30, 2024)
“Father in Heaven (Right Now)” BeBe Winans feat. Gerald Albright Regimen Records (release date: April 12, 2024)
“Prayer Room” Sarah Betshabaz Independent (release date: February 19, 2024)
“I’m Redeemed” Beloved St. John Evangelistic Church Music and Fine Arts Ministry Independent (release date: October 6, 2023)
“No Stressing” Damon Little feat. Angie Stone Little World Music (release date: May 16, 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 Twenty-seven-year-old Sophia Martinez Gokey was a big fan of American Idol. She taped the program so her husband Danny Gokey, also an enthusiast of the singing competition, could watch it after he returned home from work. Sophia eventually encouraged Danny to audition for the show and, in his final year of age [...]
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 [...]
Paul Wenske informed the Journal of Gospel Music that Kansas City gospel legend Genetter Bradley, 82, passed away a week ago.
JGM is saddened to report that Cleave Graham, the last original member of the Pilgrim Jubilees gospel quartet, passed away this week.
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