SPECIAL PROGAMMING NOTE: SHOUT! host Bob Darden recently partnered with composer and scholar Dr. Stephen Newby for a one-hour radio special commemorating the 10th anniversary of the passing of gospel legend Andraé Crouch. Ten Transformative Songs of Andraé Crouch explores the life, ministry, and musical legacy of one of gospel’s most influential voices. The program builds on themes from their newly released book, Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch. You can link to the program by clicking here.
Author and Baylor University professor Robert Darden tells stories -- and plays recordings -- from the Baylor University Libraries' Black Gospel Music Restoration Project in an on-going weekly series of two-minute segments. SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments explores the distinctly African-American sound of the "Golden Age of Gospel" (1945-1975). The series celebrates this fertile musical period in American history, presenting cultural snapshots that reveal the depth of a people, their community, and the influence they have had on the rest of American music.
SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments has also been selected by the panelists at Feedspot.com as one of the Top 10 Black Gospel Podcasts on the web, and one of the Top 40 Black Christian Podcasts from MillionPodcasts.com.
Way to go, Bob Darden and team!
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The Rev. Johnny Blakey’s emotional sermon “Warming by the Devil’s Fire” is the perfect accompaniment for the Halloween season! -
For Halloween, a spooky old jubilee number by the Gospeleers – “Devil Gonna Get You.”
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Sister Ernestine Washington’s recording of “Somebody Touched Me” with the Washington Temple Camp Meeting Choir shows us just why she was called the COGIC “Songbird of the East.”
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The Bishop Lawson Radio Choir, directed by Prof. Clinton Utterbach, recorded some powerful gospel music in the 1950s, including this rendition of “God Put a Rainbow in the Sky,” featuring James Lowe.
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Reba Jones takes the old gospel tune “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” and turns it into a breathless, double-timed rave up vamp!
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With ferocious songs like “God Can (Never Underestimate),” you’ll wonder by Tommie Ligons and the Mighty Sons of Glory weren’t bigger gospel music stars!
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The Stars of Virginia’s “All These Things to Me” is a joyous romp – the fitting legacy of a great group that disappeared too soon.
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Teddy Huffman and the Gems were the only all-Black gospel group to rule the Southern Gospel music circuit with hit songs like “Gone.”
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The incredibly obscure Mighty Southern Echoes of Washington D.C. have become a favorite of rare gospel vinyl collectors with songs like “God is Still on the Throne.”
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Lillie Jenkins’ “Get Right Church” is a killer gospel vamp, driven by Jenkins’ confident, brassy vocals.
