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JGM Pick of the Week: November 22, 2021
“Waves” Strong Tower Church feat. Maurette Brown Clark From the album Fresh Wind - New Waves (release date: October 22, 2021) www.strongtowerlive.com By Robert M. Marovich Strong Tower Church went big on their debut album, recruiting veteran musicians and the likes of Maurette Brown Clark and Charlin Neal as featured vocalists on its live project. The current single, “Waves,” features the effervescent Maurette waxing on the elements as symbols of God’s blessings, miracles, wonders, and new beginnings. “When a fresh wind blows, the unusual begins to happen,” she sings. It’s an expansive P&W piece with CCM and gospel ingredients, and [...]
RIP: Dr. James C. McLean of the Bethlehem Gospel Singers
Angelo Breeden and Archie Swindell Jr. informed JGM that Dr. James C. McLean, a founding member of the Bethlehem Gospel Singers, passed away in a Charlotte, North Carolina, hospital yesterday evening, February 5, 2018. Hailing from Laurinburg, North Carolina, the Bethlehem Gospel Singers were organized in the late 1950s by Dr. [...]
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Todd Dulaney's new album, Your Great Name, arrived January 19, 2018. Click on the link below to see a video from the album and to order a copy from one of many online retail outlets.
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Bob Marovich of the Journal of Gospel Music interviews gospel recording artist Lil Prince.
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JGM Pick of the Week: November 22, 2021
“Waves” Strong Tower Church feat. Maurette Brown Clark From the album Fresh Wind - New Waves (release date: October 22, 2021) www.strongtowerlive.com By Robert M. Marovich Strong Tower Church went big on their debut album, recruiting veteran musicians and the likes of Maurette Brown Clark and Charlin Neal as featured vocalists on its live project. The current single, “Waves,” features the effervescent Maurette waxing on the elements as symbols of God’s blessings, miracles, wonders, and new beginnings. “When a fresh wind blows, the unusual begins to happen,” she sings. It’s an expansive P&W piece with CCM and gospel ingredients, and [...]
RIP: Dr. James C. McLean of the Bethlehem Gospel Singers
Angelo Breeden and Archie Swindell Jr. informed JGM that Dr. James C. McLean, a founding member of the Bethlehem Gospel Singers, passed away in a Charlotte, North Carolina, hospital yesterday evening, February 5, 2018. Hailing from Laurinburg, North Carolina, the Bethlehem Gospel Singers were organized in the late 1950s by Dr. [...]
Sponsored Post: Purchase Todd Dulaney’s New Album “Your Great Name”
Todd Dulaney's new album, Your Great Name, arrived January 19, 2018. Click on the link below to see a video from the album and to order a copy from one of many online retail outlets.
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Angela HallBeautiful GodIMOK Gospel Music 2008www.imokgospelmusic.comBrooklyn-born Angela Hall is not your typical gospel singer.I could tell Hall was theater trained even before learning that she in fact earned a BFA [...]
“Jesus You’re My Everything”First CreationFrom the FC Productions/New Day Distribution CD, Nobody Like Jesuswww.myspace.com/firstcreationmusic First Creation’s “Jesus You’re My Everything” is a James Cleveland moment.Everything about the recording reminds me [...]
Eric SpoonerEternal, Vol. 1: Fill Us Once AgainPureStream Music Group 2007www.ericspooner.comFans of the music of Israel & New Breed or Phil Tarver and Shekinah Glory Ministry will enjoy this debut [...]
Music Book Vol. 1Mel HolderPsalmist Music Group 2008www.melholder.comFirst, a disclaimer: I am not a fan of gospel (or inspirational) jazz because it sounds like smooth jazz to me, and I [...]
Lil’ Blair & the ViolinairesThese Are Our FlowersQuartet Boyz Records 2008www.violinaires.comAt the conclusion of These Are Our Flowers, singer Titus “Lil’ Blair” Stallworth explains that the CD’s title refers to [...]
“Break Through Praise” and “Mountain Move”Jeff Roberson and L.I.F.E. (Long Island Fellowship Ensemble)From the CD Chosen Generation (Long Island Gospel Sound Records 2008)www.myspace.com/jeffarobersonPowerful Pentecostal percussion permeates “Break Through Praise” from [...]
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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.
