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“He Kept Me” – Lamont Sanders
“He Kept Me”Lamont SandersFrom the Bear Tag / DarkChild Gospel EP He’s a Keeper(release date: February 20, 2020)www.lamontsanders.com By Robert M. Marovich On “He Kept Me,” Lamont Sanders expresses his gratitude to God who never left him despite his doubts, mistakes, and lack of focus on the Word. Sanders sings with a confidence and muscularity equaled only by the insistent thumping of a drum that opens the song and ultimately folds itself within the rhythm section. At the end of last month, “He Kept Me” received love from Billboard, where it hit the number one spot on the mag’s Gospel [...]
RIP: Clarence Fountain, Last Original Member of the Blind Boys of Alabama
By Bob Marovich Clarence Fountain, the longtime lead singer and an original member of the Grammy Award-winning Blind Boys of Alabama, passed away this morning. He was the last of the original members of the group that was organized in 1944. Six sightless pupils, including Clarence Fountain, left the Alabama [...]
Bruce Parham – Your Presence
Bruce Parham Your Presence We Here Now Music Group (release date: June 15, 2018) By Bob Marovich An early impetus for Bruce Parham’s solo career came from his grandmother, who instructed her grandson in no uncertain terms to “Open up your mouth and sing!” Sing he did, before church congregations [...]
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“He Kept Me” – Lamont Sanders
“He Kept Me”Lamont SandersFrom the Bear Tag / DarkChild Gospel EP He’s a Keeper(release date: February 20, 2020)www.lamontsanders.com By Robert M. Marovich On “He Kept Me,” Lamont Sanders expresses his gratitude to God who never left him despite his doubts, mistakes, and lack of focus on the Word. Sanders sings with a confidence and muscularity equaled only by the insistent thumping of a drum that opens the song and ultimately folds itself within the rhythm section. At the end of last month, “He Kept Me” received love from Billboard, where it hit the number one spot on the mag’s Gospel [...]
RIP: Clarence Fountain, Last Original Member of the Blind Boys of Alabama
By Bob Marovich Clarence Fountain, the longtime lead singer and an original member of the Grammy Award-winning Blind Boys of Alabama, passed away this morning. He was the last of the original members of the group that was organized in 1944. Six sightless pupils, including Clarence Fountain, left the Alabama [...]
Bruce Parham – Your Presence
Bruce Parham Your Presence We Here Now Music Group (release date: June 15, 2018) By Bob Marovich An early impetus for Bruce Parham’s solo career came from his grandmother, who instructed her grandson in no uncertain terms to “Open up your mouth and sing!” Sing he did, before church congregations [...]
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“I’ll Be That”Donovan OwensFrom the Diversity Records CD All That I Have (available online June 20, 2009)www.donovanowensmusic.comMilwaukee, Wisconsin’s Donovan Owens is a twelve year-old gospel singer who has already shared [...]
Glen David AndrewsWalking Through Heaven’s GateThreadhead Records 2009www.glendavidandrewsband.comRecipe for an instant gospel celebration? Find a church, invite a brassy Dixieland jazz band with a shouting lead singer in to perform [...]
“Rain On Us” Earnest Pugh From the Black Smoke Music Worldwide CD Earnest Pugh Live: Rain On Us (street date: July 28, 2009) www.earnestpugh.com Fire and rain figure prominently in [...]
You’ve heard the hype; now on May 31 you can experience it for yourself as How Sweet the Sound premieres on BET at 11 AM EST/PST. Presented by @radical.media and [...]
Alpha 7 MinistriesBeyond the WallsAlpha 7 Ministries 2008www.alpha7ministries.comMinisters Randall and DeBorrah K. Ogans’ Alpha 7 Ministries imprint out of Fairfield, California introduced the world to Brenda Lowe and her marvelous [...]
“You Oughta Help”Malcolm Williams & Great FaithFrom the Malcolm James Music CD In Your Glory (Summer 2009 release)http://www.malcolmwilliams.com/“Anybody still like traditional music?” asks Chicago’s Malcolm Williams rhetorically.Not waiting for an [...]
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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.
