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GratitudeCalvin EarlBack to Basics Records 2004www.calvinearl.comFollowing in the footsteps of artists such as Ella Jenkins and Odetta, who performed African American spirituals within a folk music context, Calvin Earl has produced Gratitude. It is Earl’s personal statement of “gratitude” to his ancestors for their gift of the spiritual, which he [...]
By Bob Marovich Few gospel artists can claim to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Only one, to my knowledge, can also boast that a major prop from his former band is now on display in the Smithsonian. Calvin Simon can lay claim to both. As a [...]
Calvin Bridges as told to JGM's Bob Marovich Looking back, I think God set me up to be in gospel music. In the neighborhood where I grew up, on the West Side of Chicago, there was the Holloway Community Choir. I lived around the corner from them. I would go [...]
Shirley CaesarRevisitedCalvin Records 2008In 1967, Shirley Caesar stepped out of the Caravans lineup to release her debut solo album, I’ll Go, for Hob Records, a company founded in Detroit by salon owner Carmen Murphy and later purchased by Scepter Records. With tracks featuring the Young People’s Choir of the Institutional [...]
Gospel Diaries Golden Memories is a series of musical moments captured by historian Eric Maurice Clark during his visits with vocalists and musicians, most of whom have direct links to gospel’s earliest days, especially in Chicago, the genre’s birthplace city.
With Meet Johnnie Washington, Pastor Mack C. Mason trains his historian’s eye to illustrate how local communities of dedicated and enterprising ministers and evangelists turned Christianity into a pervasive force in modern American life.
Derek Dunn I Will Sing In Season Music Group (release date: October 13, 2017) www.inseasonmusicgroup.com By Bob Marovich From the Tidewater area of Virginia comes Derek Dunn, whose latest CD, I Will Sing, is notable for offering more than the usual number of high-potential songs expected from an album of new compositions. [...]
The Choirs of Trinity United Church of Christ Stay Connected Unashamed Media Group (release date: February 28, 2017) Available on Amazon.com, itunes, other digital outlets. The hard copy with the 36 page color booklet will be available at the church by March 3, 2017, through its bookstore and website. By [...]
A Piece of My Soul (The Anthology of Gospel)Christ Universal Temple, ChicagoMay 24 and 25 By Bob Marovich of The Black Gospel BlogLast night, A Piece of My Soul opened as a musical and ended as church.Faith Howard (r) sings a tribute to Albertina WalkerEvoking Jackie Taylor’s Black Ensemble Theater presentations in [...]
Rev. Stanley Keeble informed TBGB that the Queen of Gospel, Albertina Walker, went on home to be with her Lord earlier this morning.Ms. Walker's tenure in gospel music extends back several decades, most notably as the organizer and lead singer of the Caravans.Here's a remembrance from singer-songwriter Calvin Bridges:Albertina Walker... [...]
But, I’m Still AroundThe Roberson Brothers Reunion, featuring Pastor Van D. Roberson(private press) 2008For information, call: 714-504-7393Despite the fact that it is a privately-produced recording, But, I’m Still Here, a reunion of the Roberson Brothers, is visually and aurally pleasing.Adorned with vintage photos, including a 1961 promotional photo of the [...]
Among the first Gospel Legacy CDs Light Records released this year were tributes to the Winans, the Detroit family that was to the Eighties what Andrae Crouch and the Hawkins Family were to the Seventies. The Winans, like Crouch and Hawkins, employed the medium of contemporary music to express a [...]
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