JGM Pick of the Week: June 11, 2025
“Bless Your Name” is a straightforward worship song based on the opening verses of Psalm 34, but where some worship leaders would play it straight, Tonya Baker juggles the melodic line like a jazz chanteuse.
JGM Pick of the Week: June 2, 2025
“This is Redemption” is a tuneful and energetic paean to the power of salvation.
“He’ll Make It Alright” – Mighty Golden Wonders
“He’ll Make It Alright” by the Mighty Golden Wonders of Warren, Ohio, is a delicious slice of retro.
The Boys are Back in Town! Blind Boys of Alabama In Chicago to Play New Venue
On Sunday, March 30, 2025, the multi-GRAMMY Award-winning Blind Boys of Alabama will be among the earliest artists to appear at Garcia’s Chicago in the city's West Loop.
Kem Evans Remembers Columbus, Ohio, Musician Mrs. Doris L. Brown
Ed. Note: This remembrance, written by Kem Evans, is so affecting I want to share it with the Journal of Gospel Music readers. Mrs. Doris L. Brown is an example of the many thousands of music ministers who walk humbly with the Lord in their work and don't get nearly [...]
RIP Clyde Brown Moultry, Former Member of the Cleveland Singers and the Gospel Messengers
The Journal of Gospel Music was sad to learn from Tim Dillinger-Curenton that Clyde Brown Moultry, a former member of Charles Fold's Gospel Messengers and the Cleveland Singers, passed away on December 21, 2022, at the age of 77.
JGM Pick of the Week – March 28, 2022
“All of My Help” The Dedicated Souls Elite and Creative Music Productions By Robert M. Marovich If “All of My Help” by the Ohio-based Dedicated Souls sounds like a Canton Spirituals track, it’s because it was written, produced, and is led by the Canton Spirituals’ own Antoine Porter. The message [...]
Charles Fold Singers of Cincinnati Celebrate 50 Years
By Robert M. Marovich On Saturday, November 13, 2021, the Grammy Award-winning Charles Fold Singers of Cincinnati celebrated their 50th Anniversary with a program at Lincoln Heights Missionary Baptist Church, where Dr. Fold had been minister of music. Maryanne Zeleznik on Cincinnati Public Radio's "Cincinnati Edition" conducted an interview with [...]
September 24 to be Rance Allen Group Day in Toledo, Ohio
Photo: (Left to right) Producer Chris Byrd, Tom Allen, Steve Allen, Mayor Wade, and Tyscot A&R executive, Sidney Scott. Out front is Chris Byrd’s grandson, Christopher. Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz Proclaims Friday, September 24 Rance Allen Group Day in Toledo, Ohio In Celebration of New Release, “Love Makes the [...]
JGM Pick of the Week: July 26, 2021
“It’s Time” Mary Glover Independent (released October 20, 2020) By Robert M. Marovich In tone, tempo, and message, Mary Glover’s “It’s Time” commands people to snap out of it, get right, act right, and be joyful in the Lord. Glover’s sassy and declarative alto, honed in the community of quartet [...]
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