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RIP: James Lott, Minister of Music and Utopia Music Group CEO
From a Press Release: James Lott, beloved Minister of Music for Sweet Holy Spirit Church and CEO of Utopia Music Group LLC, made his transition Saturday, June 5, 2021. To say the Gospel Music Industry is shocked and saddened would be an understatement. God called his dedicated servant home after a lengthy illness. The void left by his physical presence will be deeply felt and hard to fill. Please keep James' family, Bishop Larry D. Trotter, Sweet Holy Spirit Church, and Utopia Music Group in your prayers. Their current recording project "Alright" will continue forward and a new CEO will [...]
JGM Music Hour – Episode 112
Click on the image above to start program Playlist for Episode 112: I got out - Bryan Popin Testify - James Douglas feat. LeJeune Thompson It could have been me - Dorothy Norwood feat. Dorinda Clark-Cole That's what He is - Miami Mass Choir feat. [...]
JGM Pick of the Week: March 13, 2017
“Light Up the Darkness” Andre Byrd Independent release (March 2016) www.andrebyrdonline.com With “Light Up the Darkness,” Stamford, Connecticut, singer-songwriter Andre Byrd injects into song his call for direct social action. To a hook-laden pop melody that shimmers with Shellback-style blasts of electronica, Byrd appeals to us to stop acting like [...]
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RIP: James Lott, Minister of Music and Utopia Music Group CEO
From a Press Release: James Lott, beloved Minister of Music for Sweet Holy Spirit Church and CEO of Utopia Music Group LLC, made his transition Saturday, June 5, 2021. To say the Gospel Music Industry is shocked and saddened would be an understatement. God called his dedicated servant home after a lengthy illness. The void left by his physical presence will be deeply felt and hard to fill. Please keep James' family, Bishop Larry D. Trotter, Sweet Holy Spirit Church, and Utopia Music Group in your prayers. Their current recording project "Alright" will continue forward and a new CEO will [...]
JGM Music Hour – Episode 112
Click on the image above to start program Playlist for Episode 112: I got out - Bryan Popin Testify - James Douglas feat. LeJeune Thompson It could have been me - Dorothy Norwood feat. Dorinda Clark-Cole That's what He is - Miami Mass Choir feat. [...]
JGM Pick of the Week: March 13, 2017
“Light Up the Darkness” Andre Byrd Independent release (March 2016) www.andrebyrdonline.com With “Light Up the Darkness,” Stamford, Connecticut, singer-songwriter Andre Byrd injects into song his call for direct social action. To a hook-laden pop melody that shimmers with Shellback-style blasts of electronica, Byrd appeals to us to stop acting like [...]
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Turn to Hymn #... "Forgotten Hymns of the Church" featuring Vickie Woodard's Melodious Praise Gospel artist Vickie Woodard set out to celebrate the beauty of the old hymns in her [...]
"I Believe" -- Sons of Wonder Honey-B-Recording Co. 1045 Early 60s I have heard plenty of syrupy-sweet or just plain bad versions of the gospel/country chestnut "I Believe" to make [...]
Week 115: "No Love is Sweeter" Echoes of Harmony ca. early 1970s (Savoy LP 14280) I could not find definitive information on the Echoes of Harmony, and that's a shame, [...]
Samuel Patterson, known as "Saint" Samuel Patterson, left this world for his eternal reward on Thursday evening, September 16, 2004. According to information generously supplied to me by Chicago COGIC [...]
NOTE: Gregory Gay, the son of Donald "Preacher" Gay, wrote this brief history of the Gay Sisters, a family that gospel music historian Anthony Heilbut once wrote "is worth a [...]
From the South Side of Chicago -- where gospel music found its voice more than eight decades ago -- comes Fortitude (Jamie Simond, Cinque Cullar, Leon "Rock" Guyton and Teddy [...]
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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.
