Best CDs, Singles and Historic Reissues of 2023
The Journal of Gospel Music presents its "Best Of 2023" list in the categories of singles, albums, and historical reissues.
JGM Pick of the Week: October 24, 2023
Christian singer Lauren Daigle’s single is her best since the 2018 smash hit, “You Say.”
RIP Bishop Claude Odell Timmons – Gospel Singer, Religious Leader
JGM was saddened to learn of the transition of Bishop Claude Odell Timmons, a gospel music artist and religious leader.
Sir the Baptist: Everyday Music from a Sunday Knight
By Bob Marovich The sacred-secular divide in music is a uniquely modern conception, and it misses the point. In West Africa, where most enslaved Africans came from, all music was sacred and all music was secular. There was no distinction…until the music came to America during the African Diaspora and [...]
Long-Awaited Aretha Franklin “Amazing Grace” Documentary Makes World Debut at 2018 DOC NYC
NEW YORK, NY, November 5, 2018 – Amazing Grace, a long-awaited documentary featuring Aretha Franklin’s signature performances at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, will make its world debut at the 2018 DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary film festival. It was announced today that the film will be [...]
Evangelist Myrna Summers: God Gave Her a Song and Now a Ministry
By Bob Marovich In 1970, Evangelist Myrna Summers burst on the gospel music scene on the strength of “God Gave Me a Song,” a composition she wrote and performed with the Interdenominational Youth Choir of Washington, DC and Maryland. It was so popular, Atlantic Records handed her a recording contract. [...]
