This Saturday, January 21st Willie "Bubba" Pope and The Pearly Gates present a Jubilant Celebration for our favorite Lady of Gospel... SISTER LUCILLE POPE: DON'T MISS IT!!
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Jesus Tore My Heart To Pieces THIS JUST IN: Sister Lucille Pope & The Pearly Gates will be honored during the Twentieth Anniversary Celebration of the GMWA Quartet Division 'Salute to Th...
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I'll Be Home For Christmas Originally released by Specialty on 78 in 1952, I picked up this red vinyl Holiday re-issue sometime in the eighties, and it's been heavy in the Christmas rot...
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99 1/2 Won't Do This just in from Brother Lewis Alexander - There will be a tribute to our friend, the Great Lady of Georgia Gospel, SISTER LUCILLE POPE-ALEXANDER, on Sunday, November 4...
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I Pray On Christmas Here's one that our hero Solomon Burke cut with The Blind Boys of Alabama back in 2004 for their Grammy Award winning Christmas album Go Tell It On The Mountain . Writt...
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Our friends Jus B'Cuz will be holding a benefit concert for Michael Hubbard , the 14 year old Riverhead High School student who was horribly burned in a tragic accident last June. The concert ...
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Travel On WHY MALACO MATTERS On Friday, April 15th, Malaco Records ' historic studio and headquarters at 3023 West Northside Drive in Jackson, Mississippi was destroyed by an EF2 Tornado...
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Yes, it's finally official. In conjunction with the NOFO Soul & Gospel Festival, Holy Ghost will be sponsoring an appearance by the one and only Jus B'Cuz at the historic Jamesport Meeting Hous...
Please join me in saying goodbye to our friend Julius Bradley who left this world yesterday morning, March 16th, a victim of the cancer that had ravaged his brain. One of the most spiritual...
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I'm Going Home (To Live With God) Here's Willie Mitchell's arrangement of this traditional Gospel song that he produced on his friend O.V. Wright back in 1973. Together once more, the...
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Jesus Christ, The Baby It's Christmas time once again, and here's a record that calls to mind 'the reason for the season'. Recorded upstairs at Ernie's Record Mart in 1961, it represents th...
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Me and Jesus Today is Clarence Fountain 's eightieth birthday. With the passing of Johnny Fields last week, Clarence became the only surviving member of the original Five Blind Boys of Al...
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Great Day In December CLAUDE JETER 1914-2009One of the last true pillars of Quartet Gospel has left us. I got the news this morning that Reverend Claude Jeter , the 'Father of the Falsett...
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Brightly Bean BENNY GORDON 1932-2008This marvelous record represents Benny Gordon's first appearance on vinyl. He told me that when the Harmonizers performed it at the Apollo in 1962, they...
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Christmas Joy Here's a gem written by Arthur Crume shortly after he joined The Soul Stirrers in 1965. Produced by Sonny Thompson , it just doesn't get much better than this. Merry Chri...
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I Want To Feel Thy Holy Spirit IRA TUCKER 1925-2008 Please join me in bidding farewell to one of the most influential figures in Gospel, Ira Tucker . As the leader of the Dixie Hummingbird...
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Down By The Riverside Well folks, by now you should know that I'm down in New Orleans for my annual full immersion Gospel Tent experience at Jazz Fest. Just like we did last year , let's ta...
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Here's My Life Like many Soul singers, Solomon Burke came up out of the Gospel tradition. Unlike most of them, however, he has remained intimately involved in the Church throughout his ill...
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There's A God Somewhere Well, the word is out. Bishop Joe Simon will be headlining the 21st Annual Soul Festival in Porretta Terme, Italy this coming July. Considered one of the premier e...
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Merry Christmas As you may know, I am a big fan of Sister Lucille Pope . Through the efforts of my friend Pam Willis-Hovey , I was able to speak with Sister Pope on the telephone not t...
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Another Chance Hey, everybody. I'm not sure if you remember this but, back in May of 2006, I told you about a trip I made to Royal Studio in Memphis. I spoke about a great guy I met while ...
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Demons Hey everybody. As you may have noticed, I've been working on a four part series on The Blind Boys Of Alabama . I had every intention of tackling the post dealing with their new mille...
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Lord, Lord You've Been So Good To Me In 1947, R.H. Harris , the famed leader of The Soul Stirrers , was instrumental in forming the 'National Quartet Association Of America', a group dedica...
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