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Various Artists – Kerry Douglas Gospel Mix Christmas
Various Artists Kerry Douglas Gospel Mix Christmas Blacksmoke Music Worldwide (release date: November 5, 2021) By Robert M. Marovich It’s that time again—Christmas songs and albums are hitting music reviewers’ inboxes. Among the earliest is a Kerry Douglas holiday celebration, an extension of his popular and longstanding Gospel Mix franchise into the Yuletide trade. Co-produced by Chicago’s own Gregory Gay, the project offers up new and familiar Christmas songs by artists signed to Douglas’s Blacksmoke Music Worldwide. The album’s best tracks are gospel arrangements of classic Christmas carols and songs. For example, powerhouse vocalist Monica Lisa Stevenson renders “Have Yourself [...]
JGM’s Best CDs, Singles, and Historic Reissues of 2017
By Bob Marovich The Journal of Gospel Music presents its Best of 2017 list in the categories of CDs, songs, and historical releases. The recordings were not chosen based on sales, chart status, promotion, voting, fan popularity, number of likes or retweets, committee decisions, throwing darts, reading tea leaves, arm twisting, [...]
Norris Garner – Don’t Stop the Praise
Norris Garner Don’t Stop the Praise Norris Garner Music (2015) By Bob Marovich A North Carolinan by birth but a resident of California’s Bay Area, Norris Garner is a choir man. He has written, sung with, accompanied, directed, and taught choirs at the Gospel Music Workshop of America, the National Convention [...]
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Various Artists – Kerry Douglas Gospel Mix Christmas
Various Artists Kerry Douglas Gospel Mix Christmas Blacksmoke Music Worldwide (release date: November 5, 2021) By Robert M. Marovich It’s that time again—Christmas songs and albums are hitting music reviewers’ inboxes. Among the earliest is a Kerry Douglas holiday celebration, an extension of his popular and longstanding Gospel Mix franchise into the Yuletide trade. Co-produced by Chicago’s own Gregory Gay, the project offers up new and familiar Christmas songs by artists signed to Douglas’s Blacksmoke Music Worldwide. The album’s best tracks are gospel arrangements of classic Christmas carols and songs. For example, powerhouse vocalist Monica Lisa Stevenson renders “Have Yourself [...]
JGM’s Best CDs, Singles, and Historic Reissues of 2017
By Bob Marovich The Journal of Gospel Music presents its Best of 2017 list in the categories of CDs, songs, and historical releases. The recordings were not chosen based on sales, chart status, promotion, voting, fan popularity, number of likes or retweets, committee decisions, throwing darts, reading tea leaves, arm twisting, [...]
Norris Garner – Don’t Stop the Praise
Norris Garner Don’t Stop the Praise Norris Garner Music (2015) By Bob Marovich A North Carolinan by birth but a resident of California’s Bay Area, Norris Garner is a choir man. He has written, sung with, accompanied, directed, and taught choirs at the Gospel Music Workshop of America, the National Convention [...]
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“Thank You Lord For Mama”/”I’ve Got a Home”EnduranceFrom the CD I’ve Got a Home SCCME Records 2008www.myspace.com/endurance20072007Hailing from Houston, the Stellar-nominated gospel quartet Endurance may be relatively new on the [...]
VOWSomebody SomewhereJDI Records 2008http://www.jdirecords.com/VOW is a traditional choir with a 21st Century name and 21st Century panache.The choir’s first project for Professor James Roberson’s JDI Records of Los Angeles (label [...]
“Stomp”Shekinah Glory MinistryFrom the 2008 Kingdom Records CD Jesuswww.kingdomrecordsinc.comWarrior worshippers stomping metaphorically on the Devil’s head and feet.That’s what Shekinah Glory Ministry’s “Stomp” is about, at least at first blush. [...]
From The Sowetan:25 August 2008Khanyi NkosiRebecca Malope once again proved to be queen of gospel when she was honoured with a life time achievers award at the SABC Gospel Music [...]
Earlier this month, gospel hip hop phenom Canton Jones spent some time with The Black Gospel Blog to talk about his latest project, Kingdom Business.TBGB: Where did you develop your [...]
Shoshana Bean is best known for her role as Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) in the Tony Award winning Broadway show, Wicked. She was praised by Brian McKnight [...]
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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.
