Richard Smallwood: You Don’t Know His Journey
Read Keith Alexander's article in the Washington Post here: Richard Smallwood
Detroit’s Karen Clark Sheard Reflects on Recording Her New Album in Chicago
By Bob Marovich In some ways, it was like attending a gospel music hall of fame event wrapped inside a live recording session. The Clark Sisters were seated in the front row. Richard Smallwood sat behind them. Rows of gospel announcers, gospel music producers, and popular singers were to their [...]
JGM Music Hour 94
Click on the image above to start program. Playlist (in order): He touched me - Dr. LouDella Evans Reid & the Traditional Gospel Choir Something about that name - Lorraine Stancil Empty me - Javon Inman Forever I will - Lonnie Hunter feat. Structure Lord you reign - Richard Smallwood [...]
Richard Smallwood’s “Anthology Live” a Musical Autobiography
By Bob Marovich for the Journal of Gospel Music If Richard Smallwood had his druthers, the autobiography he is writing would have been released simultaneously with his new album, the two-CD Anthology Live. The album, recorded with his group, Vision, is essentially the "musical soundtrack" to his autobiography. But the [...]
Gospel Memories: Remembering Emanuel AME in Charleston
The June 20, 2015 episode of Gospel Memories on WLUW Chicago includes a long set in memory of the victims and their families, and all the members of Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Gospel music helps us mourn, helps us heal, helps us remember. May this kind of tragedy [...]
Damien Sneed feat. the Levites – Broken to Minister: The Deluxe Edition
Damien Sneed Featuring the Levites Broken To Minister: The Deluxe Edition LeChateau Earl Records (release date: March 3, 2015) www.lechateauearl.com By Bob Marovich Recorded live in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2013, Broken To Minister: The Deluxe Edition builds on Damien Sneed and the Levites’ previously released Broken To Minister EP. The [...]
Celebrating the DuBose Family on Occasion of Father’s 75th Birthday
The DuBose Family at work: Jonathan Jr. (left), Jonathan Sr. (center) and other family members. On the 75th birthday of Jonathan DuBose Sr., member of Bridgeport, Connecticut quartet the Sensational Starlights, the Journal of Gospel Music is pleased to repost its 2011 interview (below) with another musical member [...]
JGM Pick of the Week: October 20, 2014
“Take It to the Lord in Prayer” Patrick Lundy & the Ministers of Music (2014) From the CD Majesty: A Recording of Anthems, Hymns, and Spirituals www.plundymom.com Incorporating the semi-classical flourishes of Richard Smallwood and Donald Lawrence, Patrick Lundy and the Ministers of Music give Rev. Nolan Williams' “Take It [...]
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