Gospel (genre)

Pop album reviews: Martha Wainwright, Arizona Dranes

2013-01-01 00:00:00

A couple of albums from 2012 we missed . . . Martha Wainwright "Come Home to Mama" (V2/Cooperative Music) Three stars At No. 11 on my (and, I suspect, many others') 10 best albums of 2012 list is "Out of the Game," Rufus Wainwright's funny,...

Alan Jackson discusses new album, return to Los Angeles on Friday

2012-07-19 15:00:00

Alan Jackson has his own version of the 1% vs. 99% problem, and he has to contend with it every night he's on tour. “The problem with me is I've had 60-something singles,” said the lanky country singer and songwriter earlier this week from...

Donna Summer dies at 63; diva of disco

2012-05-18 00:00:00

In 1975, Donna Summer released a pop single unlike any before it. The singer, then an unknown in the U.S., was living in Germany and working with Italian producer Giorgio Moroder and lyricist Pete Bellotte. Together they came up with a breathy,...

Celebrating 10 years of 'American Idol'

2012-06-11 16:37:02

Review: Klezmatics at Walt Disney Concert Hall

2011-12-22 04:34:49

PASSINGS: Philip Matthew Hannan, Johnnie Wright, Jessy Dixon

2011-10-01 00:00:00

Philip Matthew Hannan Cleric gave the eulogy for President Kennedy Retired New Orleans Archbishop Philip Matthew Hannan, 98, who sought to console a grieving nation in his eulogy for President Kennedy, died Thursday in New Orleans after a long period of...

Jerry Ragovoy dies at 80; songwriter had hits with Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin

2011-07-19 15:58:00

Soul songwriter Jerry Ragovoy wrote one of his more famous tunes – "Time Is On My Side," which turned into a massive hit for the Rolling Stones — under the pseudonym of Norman Meade. He was saving his own name for the works he planned to...

DeLois Barrett Campbell dies at 85; gospel soprano

2011-08-08 00:00:00

She was the mightiest voice of the greatest female trio in gospel. And if she had wished it, Chicagoan DeLois Barrett Campbell surely could have been a far bigger star singing solo in jazz, blues, pop, Broadway, you name it. But Campbell and her...

Pop music review: How Sweet the Sound is uplifting gospel

2011-10-30 21:36:01

Pop music review: Earl Scruggs lets his banjo do the talking

2011-11-06 21:35:49

The Stepkids, on tour with the Horrors, talk Stones Throw debut

2011-09-15 16:35:44

Elton John & Leon Russell: Keyboard colleagues

2010-10-10 00:00:00

Few people can get away with telling an anecdote about being on safari in Africa and make it sound like a trip to the supermarket. But for Elton John, that's precisely how and where he became inspired to call his keyboard-playing pal Leon Russell after...

Yes, yes, we know ... it's gospel music, and you aren't supposed to swear and stuff. But, sometimes, you hear Mary Mary and have to utter the simple expletive of your choice.

2012-11-08 12:01:00

This year marks a dramatic expansion of the fest, which in 2011 had been reduced to one day at Taste of Chicago. The event opened Thursday at Millennium Park and continues through the weekend. On Friday, the music-making unfolds at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.

2012-06-21 13:33:00

Look, I'm not an overly religious person. But as a country music fan, I can get behind spirituals and gospel tracks. This album, originally released in 1976 (although recorded a few years prior) is Willie's tribute to his religious upbringing.

2012-04-30 00:00:00