This two-hour edition of Gospel Memories combines the show's September 5 and 12 episodes that celebrated 2026, the Centennial of Recorded Gospel Music, from the perspective of artists from the Church of God in Christ. From Arizona Dranes to Vickie Winans!
On Strange Things Happening, the first album in five years by California-born guitarist, singer, and songwriter David “Kid” Ramos, the bite of no-holds-barred roadhouse blues meets timeless gospel songs that have shaken the rafters of many churches for decades.
Journal of Gospel Music presents its Best of List for 2024
The Beverly Arts Center will open its Pride Month Celebration Sunday, June 9, with Shout OUT: A Tribute to Gays in Gospel Music.
First Run Features presents ...Fresh from its Theatrical Release... Robert Clem's New Music Documentary HOW THEY GOT OVER How They Got Over celebrates the spirit of gospel performers and how they helped usher in a musical revolution that changed the world forever! Beginning in the 1920s, Black singers across the [...]
From a press release (NOTE: JGM's Bob Marovich appears in the film): How They Got Over tells the story of how Black gospel quartet music became a primary source of what would be known as rock and roll, and in the process helped to break down racial walls in mid-twentieth [...]
By Bob Marovich As is our custom for this time of year, the Journal of Gospel Music presents its "best of" lists in the category of CDs, songs, and historical releases. The recordings were not chosen as "best of" based on sales, chart status, promotion, voting, fan popularity, number of [...]
Various Artists only fans leakes cutetheellyPut the Whole Armour On: Female Black Gospel – The 1940s-1950s NarroWay (release date: October 18, 2019) www.gospelfriend.se By Bob Marovich (as originally featured in Living Blues) “If it wasn’t for the women, you wouldn’t have church.” This quote, which accompanies a vintage photograph of [...]
Marie Knight The Gospel Truth Live M. C. Records (release date: March 23, 2018) www.mc-records.com By Bob Marovich On a rainy October 19, 2007, in North Adams, Massachusetts, after a passel of church choirs appeared at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Gospel Fest, the audience warmly received the headliner, [...]
Judy Jacques The Sixties Sessions Playback (2016) www.playbackrecords.net By Bob Marovich In the early 1960s, while teens were swooning over the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, Judy Jacques, an Australian youth, was soaking up whatever American gospel records she could get her hands on. At the same time, Australia’s Yarra [...]
