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JGM Pick of the Week: August 9, 2021
“Amazing” Pastor Mike Jr. Blacksmoke Music Worldwide (release date: July 30, 2021) www.pastormikejr.com By Robert M. Marovich Pastor Mike McClure Jr., better known as Pastor Mike Jr., the 2021 Stellar Awards Artist of the Year and gospel music's current It Guy, cleverly gospelizes Gnarls Barkley’s 2006 smash hit “Crazy” as “Amazing.” Amazingly, it works. To a chill arrangement and with ample support from a full-throated choir of background vocalists, Pastor Mike Jr. takes his time with the famous melody. He stretches the tension to the breaking point, then lets the choir handle the finish. Expect groups around the country to [...]
On Jesus’ Program – The Gospel Soul of O.V. Wright
By Opal Louis Nations Overton Vertis Wright was perhaps one of the finest gospel and soul-blues singers to emerge from out of the Volunteer State. He was born to Emanuel and Helen Wright on October 9, 1939, in Lens, some thirty miles west of Memphis, Tennessee. His first public appearance [...]
Jeanette Jones – Dreams All Come True
Jeanette Jones Dreams All Come True Playback Records (release date: May 19, 2017) www.playbackrecords.net By Bob Marovich The title of Playback’s compilation of every known secular and sacred solo recording by San Francisco singer Jeanette Jones is deliberately ironic. All the more so in that Jones’ beautifully-sung ballad, “Dreams All Come [...]
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JGM Pick of the Week: August 9, 2021
“Amazing” Pastor Mike Jr. Blacksmoke Music Worldwide (release date: July 30, 2021) www.pastormikejr.com By Robert M. Marovich Pastor Mike McClure Jr., better known as Pastor Mike Jr., the 2021 Stellar Awards Artist of the Year and gospel music's current It Guy, cleverly gospelizes Gnarls Barkley’s 2006 smash hit “Crazy” as “Amazing.” Amazingly, it works. To a chill arrangement and with ample support from a full-throated choir of background vocalists, Pastor Mike Jr. takes his time with the famous melody. He stretches the tension to the breaking point, then lets the choir handle the finish. Expect groups around the country to [...]
On Jesus’ Program – The Gospel Soul of O.V. Wright
By Opal Louis Nations Overton Vertis Wright was perhaps one of the finest gospel and soul-blues singers to emerge from out of the Volunteer State. He was born to Emanuel and Helen Wright on October 9, 1939, in Lens, some thirty miles west of Memphis, Tennessee. His first public appearance [...]
Jeanette Jones – Dreams All Come True
Jeanette Jones Dreams All Come True Playback Records (release date: May 19, 2017) www.playbackrecords.net By Bob Marovich The title of Playback’s compilation of every known secular and sacred solo recording by San Francisco singer Jeanette Jones is deliberately ironic. All the more so in that Jones’ beautifully-sung ballad, “Dreams All Come [...]
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“On Broken Pieces”Bishop Paul Morton and Bishop James Dixon IIFrom the album On Broken Pieces – A Hurricane Relief ProjectBlackberry Records 2006www.blackberryrecords.com“On Broken Pieces” is a somber but optimistic recording [...]
From the Belle Report, July 14, 2006. TBGB congratulates Margaret Allison, a guest on "Gospel Memories," on her well-deserved public appreciation:Back in the Golden Age of Gospel in the 1950s, [...]
From Media Jenny:Malaco Records, the gospel industry’s largest independent label, is set to release The Caravans: Paved The Way, on September 5, 2006. This project is the first for the [...]
“There’s a Leak in This Old Building”Brother Claude ElyKing 12821953Good thing for Elvis that Brother Claude Ely was already signed to Syd Nathan’s King Records, because if an unsigned Ely [...]
A press release from Faithday Press:(Hazel Crest, IL July 7, 2006) - As America's mainline Protestant churchesfight for survival, the nation's Pentecostal and Charismaticdenominations are experiencing rapid growth with no [...]
“Help Me to Stay Saved”Keith “Wonderboy” Johnson and the Spiritual VoicesFrom the album Just Being MeVerity Records 2006www.verityrecords.comYou can’t help but grin during old-style quartet redux specialist Keith “Wonderboy” Johnson’s [...]
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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.
