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Harriet Fraser – Peace
Harriet Fraser Peace Independent (release date: October 8, 2021) www.harrietfraser.com By Robert M. Marovich On her brief but touchingly lovely debut album Peace, soprano Harriet Frasier harmonizes with herself, two-parts unaccompanied, a touch of echo evoking the sense of being recorded in a stone-walled cathedral instead of the California studios that served as the true sites of production. Shawn Kirchner’s ambient arrangements of a dozen folk songs, classical pieces, and sacred fare are designed to lull the listener into a state of relaxation, calmness, peacefulness. Delivered with Fraser’s soothing voice(s), the album delivers on its premise. Of the sacred selections, [...]
“Forever” – Jason Nelson
“Forever” Jason Nelson From the CD The Answer RCA Inspiration (release date: January 12, 2018) www.rcainspiration.com By Bob Marovich A song birthed as an improvisational line sung by Jason Nelson’s wife Tonya in their kitchen has become the first radio single from the singer-songwriter and pastor’s forthcoming CD, The Answer. [...]
JGM Music Hour – Best of 2017
Click on the image to begin streaming the show The Playlist - JGM Best of 2017: “Isaiah 40 (Intro)” – Preashea Hilliard (Daywind Records) “Jesus (What Grace Have I Found in Thee)” – Adam Everett (Polytone Records) “I Refuse” – Anthony Brown & group therAPy (Tyscot Records) [...]
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Harriet Fraser – Peace
Harriet Fraser Peace Independent (release date: October 8, 2021) www.harrietfraser.com By Robert M. Marovich On her brief but touchingly lovely debut album Peace, soprano Harriet Frasier harmonizes with herself, two-parts unaccompanied, a touch of echo evoking the sense of being recorded in a stone-walled cathedral instead of the California studios that served as the true sites of production. Shawn Kirchner’s ambient arrangements of a dozen folk songs, classical pieces, and sacred fare are designed to lull the listener into a state of relaxation, calmness, peacefulness. Delivered with Fraser’s soothing voice(s), the album delivers on its premise. Of the sacred selections, [...]
“Forever” – Jason Nelson
“Forever” Jason Nelson From the CD The Answer RCA Inspiration (release date: January 12, 2018) www.rcainspiration.com By Bob Marovich A song birthed as an improvisational line sung by Jason Nelson’s wife Tonya in their kitchen has become the first radio single from the singer-songwriter and pastor’s forthcoming CD, The Answer. [...]
JGM Music Hour – Best of 2017
Click on the image to begin streaming the show The Playlist - JGM Best of 2017: “Isaiah 40 (Intro)” – Preashea Hilliard (Daywind Records) “Jesus (What Grace Have I Found in Thee)” – Adam Everett (Polytone Records) “I Refuse” – Anthony Brown & group therAPy (Tyscot Records) [...]
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From Central City Productions: First Stellar Awards BallotDue to a number of discrepancies, the Nominating Committee is revising the FIRST Stellar Awards Ballot. SAGMA members will be allowed to re-vote [...]
TBGB reader and gospel music historian David Jones informed us that Elma Opal Moore, longtime member of Chicago's First Church of Deliverance Radio Choir, passed away just after Labor Day.Moore [...]
Marion Williams, dubbed "one of the greatest American singers of the 20th century," had a voice that launched a thousand others, from gospel to RnB to rock and roll. Hear [...]
Shirley Caesar who is sophie rainRevisitedCalvin Records 2008In 1967, Shirley Caesar stepped out of the Caravans lineup to release her debut solo album, I’ll Go, for Hob Records, a company [...]
“What Did you Do” Paul PorterFrom the CD A New DayLight Records 2008www.lightrecords.com“What did you do when the Lord saved you?” Paul Porter sings. “Did you…dance?”If the newly converted were [...]
“I’m Alive” Deitrick Haddon From the CD Revealed Verity 2008 www.verityrecords.com From the first few bars, “I’m Alive” steps into your personal space and demands your attention. It’s an urban [...]
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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.
