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JGM Pick of the Week: July 6, 2015

July 7th, 2015|Pick of the Week, Reviews, Singles, Traditional Gospel|

“He Touched Me” Dr. LouDella Evans-Reid and the Traditional Gospel Choir www.loudellaevansreid.com If you like that aggressive, churchy gospel choir sound that came straight outta Chicago, false coda and all, you will love “He Touched Me.” This Thurston Frazier chestnut is given a full-throttle reading by the Traditional Gospel Choir, [...]

“Empty Me” – Javon Inman

July 3rd, 2015|Contemporary Gospel, Reviews, Singles|

“Empty Me” Javon Inman www.javoninman.com Set for release on July 7, “Empty Me” is the latest single from award-winning independent gospel artist Javon Inman. Performed with background vocalists, “Empty Me” is a passionate and bracing mid-tempo ballad on which Inman cries out for divine intervention because “the plans of men,” [...]

Jimmy Needham – Vice & Virtue

June 28th, 2015|CDs, Christian Rock, Contemporary Christian Music, Reviews|

Jimmy Needham Vice & Virtue Platinum Pop Records (released May 4, 2015) www.jimmyneedham.com By Bob Marovich Christian artist Jimmy Needham gives us plenty to ponder on Vice & Virtue, his seventh album and first for his own imprint, Platinum Pop Records. Needham’s music is youthful and rhythmic, a playful potpourri [...]

Fannie Lou Hamer – Songs My Mother Taught Me

June 28th, 2015|5 Stars, CDs, Spoken Word, Traditional Gospel|

Fannie Lou Hamer Songs My Mother Taught Me Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (release date: June 30, 2015) www.folkways.si.edu By Bob Marovich While it took a recent act of domestic terror for the polarizing Confederate flag to begin coming down throughout the South, let us not forget that much of the way [...]

JGM Pick of the Week: June 22, 2015

June 23rd, 2015|Pick of the Week, Reviews, Singles, Traditional Gospel|

“Something About That Name” Lorraine Stancil Anointed Sounds Records (2015) I’m rather stoked about the recent release of so many traditional-style gospel singles, including this one by Psalmist Lorraine Stancil-Lawson. Product of the Pentecostal church, Psalmist Stancil is known to kick off her shoes just like Shirley Caesar, and on [...]

Sign Up for Updates from “Jubilee Showcase”

June 18th, 2015|Breaking News, DVDs, News|

Airing from 1963 to 1984, Jubilee Showcase was the longest running gospel music television show before BET's Bobby Jones Gospel.  Every week, host Sid Ordower introduced television audiences of all races and creeds to the era's gospel stars.  Offering "music that both entertains and inspires," as Ordower announced at the [...]

“Hey Daddy” – Derrell Thomas

June 18th, 2015|Contemporary Gospel, Reviews, Singles|

“Hey Daddy” Derrell Thomas Full Circle Records (2015) www.fullcirclerecords.us Most likely because of the primacy of the family matriarch, but also because of gospel’s roots in Victorian-era hymnody, gospel music is brimming with songs about Mother. “Mother Bowed,” “Mother Prayed for Me,” “I Can See Everybody’s Mother,” “Mother Sang Those [...]

JGM Pick of the Week: June 15, 2015

June 15th, 2015|Pick of the Week, Reviews, Singles, Traditional Gospel|

“I’ll Stand” Lady Voncile feat. Pastor R. L. Bush http://gloryboundrecords.bigcartel.com To the whirring of an organ and sassy opening licks from a guitar and piano, Lady Voncile Belcher delivers this church-ready solo about faith with flatfooted conviction. She hands the microphone to the Reverend R. L. Bush, who gives the [...]

J. B. Smith: No More Good Time in the World for Me

June 14th, 2015|CDs, Reviews, Traditional Gospel|

J. B. Smith No More Good Time in the World for Me Dust to Digital (2015) www.dust-digital.com By Bob Marovich There is something bone chilling about hearing lonesome blue notes echoing off prison walls. That’s what folklorist and historian Bruce Jackson captured when he recorded the unaccompanied singing of Mr. [...]

Mr. Del Presents Holy South: Memphis in Mayhem

June 12th, 2015|CDs, Christian Rap/Hip Hop, Reviews|

Mr. Del Presents Holy South: Memphis in Mayhem DMG (2015) www.noisetrade.com/holysouth/memphis-in-mayhem By Bob Marovich Quite possibly taking its title from a deliberate word play on the annual Memphis in May festival, the Memphis in Mayhem mixtape is available free of charge on Noisetrade (use the link above) by Holy South, [...]

JGM Pick of the Week: June 8, 2015

June 9th, 2015|Contemporary Gospel, Pick of the Week, Reviews, Singles|

“I’ll Make It All Right” Trish Standley From the forthcoming Jan’s Joy CD No One Else www.trishstandley.com Gospel thrush and fashionista Trish Standley covers the Beautiful Zion Missionary Baptist Church Choir of Chicago’s 1973 hit, “I’ll Make It All Right,” with all of the joyous soulful funkiness of the original. [...]

Lonnie Hunter feat. Structure – #GETITDONE

June 7th, 2015|CDs, Contemporary Gospel, Reviews|

Lonnie Hunter feat. Structure #GETITDONE Tyscot Records www.tyscot.com Syndicated radio host, choir director, worship pastor, former model, Stellar Award winner, recording artist, CEO, educator, and now clothing line owner, Lonnie Hunter is gospel’s Renaissance Man. Despite his busy schedule with "The Lonnie Hunter Show" and as host of the McDonald’s Inspiration [...]

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