am getting back in the groove of making frequent posts to the Gospel Music Library. Nice to be back at it.
Besides the new posts, there are now over 700 songs in the Gospel Music Audio Player. Be sure to take a listen…always a new mix every time you listen.
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I loved this song the minute I heard it. At first I thought it was an contemporary performance of an old gospel song, but as I dug a bit online I found it was written sometime in the 2000’s. It was made popular in 2014 by The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir directed by Cynthia Cymbala. Cynthia … Read more and listen Now I’m On My Way (Jesus Brought Me Out)
This is a wonderful gospel adaptation of the old familiar Thanksgiving hymn, “We Gather Together” (to ask the Lord’s blessing). Although I have had this song in my music library for quite a while, I just really LISTENED to it for the first time earlier today. At first I didn’t have a clue to what … Read more and listen We Gather Together
I think this cut is one of the best performances by Joyful Voices of Inspiration. In my humble option, the choir sounds awesome…like a real gospel choir!! It didn’t hurt that we had a smoking band backing us up! This cut is from the early 2000’s when James Early was the choir’s director. James was … Read more and listen Unspeakable Joy!
Without a doubt, this is one of the very finest examples of what PERFECTION in a choir is. Everything about this song bowls me over…the diction, the incredible exactness of both entries and cut offs, the rise and fall of the choir’s volume, the different voices sounds they use…to name a few. It all adds … Read more and listen My Soul Doth Magnify The Lord
This is a live, 11 minute+ recording of Ms. Beverly Crawford, with full band and choir performing the song. Wish I could have been there!! The intro alone takes my breath away with the incredibly agile, almost playful, Hammond B3 trading off licks with an incredible soaring guitar backed by a solid bass line. The … Read more and listen (You Must Be) Born Again
One of the best known contemporary female gospel singers is Yolanda Adams. She was “discovered” in 1982 when a gospel music producer happened to attend a concert in Houston given by The Southeast Inspirational Choir, and heard Yolanda sing lead on the song, “My Liberty”. With that break, and hard work, she was off to … Read more and listen Yolanda Adams – Three Songs
I love this fast paced, up tempo contemporary song from Lilian Lilly…it just gets me going. It’s such a BIG sound with lots of brass (or keyboards that make a great brass sound) backing up a smoking hot band with a super bass player popping all sorts of notes…a nice backbone to the song. Add … Read more and listen The Lord Is Great
If you are looking for a collection of CD’s that will give you broad exposure to a wide variety of gospel styles, look no further than the Smithsonian Folkways “Wade in the Water” 4 CD collection. And this cut from the “Community Gospel” CD is as raw, basic, and good as gospel gets. This isn’t … Read more and listen Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray
Milton Brunson’s Thompson Community Singers are one of the best known choirs from the golden days of big gospel choral groups (1980-1990’s). Born in Chicago in 1928, Thompson lived there his entire life, dying in 1997. At age 18 after graduating high school, Milton decided he wanted to be a musician and sought out some … Read more and listen Rest For The Weary
“Do Not Pass Me By” is one of the “old songs” of the church. It was written by Ms. Fanny Crosby in 1868. Not only was Fanny a great hymn/song writer, she, like Helen Keller some 68 years later, was blind since her birth in 1820. She never was in anyway resentful or bitter and … Read more and listen Do Not Pass Me By