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Rock That Doesn't Roll: The Story of Christian Music | 1985: The Critical Year of CCM (ft. Tim Dillinger) #Christian ⛪🔊🤺 #Ccm #Rock

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#OnDemand #FreeToStream... 16 tracks of righteous behaviour are served up as @timdillinger.bsky.social delivers September's uplifting edition of Church of the Good Groove 🎧 buff.ly/oj5Sean Amen to that. #COTGG #Gospel Découvrir

The brand new God's Music Is My Life newsletter is up! It's all about the contributions of women in the development of CCM with a focus on Reba Rambo--with details about the 4 new reissues I've produced from her back catalog. Read here: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/reba-rambo...

The brand new God's Music Is My Life newsletter is UP! This week takes a deeper look into 1985 and the intersection of R&B and CCM, focusing on 3 soulful releases by Russ Taff, Howard McCrary and Jessy Dixon. Deep dive here! godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/1985-where...

Before becoming Nashville’s go-to background vocalist, Bob Bailey released three soulful solo albums in the ’80s. Now re-released, he joins me on Untethered Southerner to talk recovery, resilience, and carving space as a Black, gay man in the music industry.

The brand new God's Music Is My Life is UP! This week celebrates the 50th anniversary of Evie's "Again" and The Downings "Praise Him!," albums that are more progressive than some expect from artists considered to be middle of the road. READ HERE: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/the-interp...

The brand new God's Music Is My Life newsletter is up, looking at the massive output that Táta Vega generated in the worlds of CCM and gospel music in 1985. READ HERE: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/tata-vegas...

#OnDemand #FreeToStream... 16 tracks of righteous behaviour are served up as @timdillinger.bsky.social delivers September's uplifting edition of Church of the Good Groove 🎧 buff.ly/oj5Sean Amen to that. #COTGG #Gospel Découvrir

#OnDemand #FreeToStream... 16 tracks of righteous behaviour are served up as @timdillinger.bsky.social delivers September's uplifting edition of Church of the Good Groove 🎧 buff.ly/oj5Sean Amen to that. #COTGG #Gospel ディスカバー

1985’s "Black and White in a Grey World" is a complicated album to look back on, but as Christian music faces another reckoning, it's a good moment to revisit Leslie Phillips' critique of the business 40 years ago. READ HERE: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/leslie-phi...

The brand new God's Music Is My Life newsletter is UP! This week, I look at albums by Inez Andrews and Millie Jackson that turn 50 this year and the ways they employ different, but related, methods of truth-telling in their music. godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/believe-in...

The brand new God's Music Is My Life newsletter is UP--a deep look at movement defining albums that turn 50 this year: Jesus Music icon Honeytree's "Evergreen" and Women's Music icon Cris Williamson's "The Changer and the Changed" READ HERE: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/song-of-th...

The brand new God's Music Is My Life is UP! It deep dives into new releases by Candi Staton & Russ Taff which find these purveyors of American music telling their stories w/a self-acceptance & clarity of mission that only time & introspection can bring. godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/cover-stor...

This week's God's Music Is My Life is UP! In this edition, I examine three classic gospel albums that turn 60, 50 and 40 this year and the ways in which they negotiated with perceptions of traditional and contemporary gospel. READ HERE: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/1965-1985-...

This choir's gospel of inclusion caused an uproar when they took their message beyond the church and into the discos. Read more about the New York Community Choir here: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/dance-chil... To donate to the book project: www.gofundme.com/f/help-fund-...

The brand new God's Music Is My Life newsletter is UP! This week's focus is Sheila Walsh's Grammy-nominated 1985 release, "Don't Hide Your Heart," an overlooked release from this CCM artist who broke new ground for women in the genre. Read here: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/sheila-wal...

This choir's gospel of inclusion caused an uproar when they took their message beyond the church and into the discos. Read more about the New York Community Choir here: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/dance-chil...

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#OnDemand #FreeToStream... 16 tracks of righteous behaviour are served up as @timdillinger.bsky.social delivers September's uplifting edition of Church of the Good Groove 🎧 buff.ly/oj5Sean Amen to that. #COTGG #Gospel 발견하다

“His new album Ripples of the Past is, without exaggeration, the peak of Ray’s artistic journey” 🥹😭😭😭 indieboulevard.com/2025/09/12/b...

RIPPLES OF THE PAST available now www.submithub.com/link/ray-cur...

The brand new God's Music Is My Life newsletter is up! This week explores the newly digitally reissued catalog of Birthright Records whose catalog boasts classic titles by Edwin, Walter and Lynette Hawkins, The Caravans and more! READ HERE: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/the-digita...

The brand new God's Music Is My Life is up! The week's focus is on mainstream albums from 1985 that reflected a contemporary Christian ethos. Read here: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/1985-i-wan...

The brand new God's Music Is My Life newsletter is up, looking at two albums from the Myrrh Records catalog from 1985: Leon Patillo's "Love Around the World" and Mylon LeFevre and Broken Heart's epic "Sheep in Wolves Clothing." READ HERE: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/1985-leon-...

#JustListened @raycurenton.com has just released another single from his upcoming album and it's magnificent! It's so light, yet emotionally heavy. Simply gorgeous! Everything I've heard so far has been absolutely amazing; "Ripples of the Past" is shaping up to be a true AOTY contender for me.

Ray Curenton - Ground Zero @raycurenton.com "Built around sample-like fingerstyle arpeggios and lush vocal harmonies inspired by folk-rock legends." #folk #singersongwriter #indiefolk #music getmusic.fm/l/LxBVry

The brand new God's Music Is My Life is up! The week's focus is on mainstream albums from 1985 that reflected a contemporary Christian ethos. Read here: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/1985-i-wan...

Here is Gospel historian Tim Dillinger offering a bit of commentary after speaking with NYCC founder Arthur Freeman about the power and success of "Express Yourself" and the significance it had on the Gospel scene. Follow the links, support his project if you can. youtu.be/GALm8eU0nQA

The brand new God's Music Is My Life newsletter is up, looking at two albums from the Myrrh Records catalog from 1985: Leon Patillo's "Love Around the World" and Mylon LeFevre and Broken Heart's epic "Sheep in Wolves Clothing." READ HERE: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/1985-leon-...

Ripples of the Past CD unveiled! Preorder now at raycurenton.bandcamp.com

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The brand new God's Music Is My Life newsletter is up! This week explores the newly digitally reissued catalog of Birthright Records whose catalog boasts classic titles by Edwin, Walter and Lynette Hawkins, The Caravans and more! READ HERE: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/the-digita...

Part 2 of “Once Familiar Friend” stripped down. This song is available now when you preorder the album RIPPLES OF THE PAST at raycurenton.bandcamp.com

The Year That Changed Everything. Friday 8/8. raycurenton.bandcamp.com/album/ripple...

Ripples of the Past. The album. Out Sept. 12 Available now for pre-order digitally and on a limited-edition CD. raycurenton.bandcamp.com/album/ripple... The first three singles ("NFC", "Ground Zero", and "Once Familiar Friend") are downloadable instantly with your purchase.”

Ground Zero just became my 2nd most streamed song of all time www.submithub.com/link/ray-cur...

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It’s antiblackness. I’d argue it’s part of a greater political project to pull Black congregations into the religious right. The extreme right, at that. And that this guy is now like “yea, of course I voted for Trump” is just additional confirmation to all of us who’ve known this truth all along.

This started in earnest in the 90s & has only gotten worse over the past 30+ years. This is about worship music replacing gospel. Gospel being seen as less than. Erasing a sound and a culture that has been a source of comfort, community, and spiritual connection for Black people for generations.

The issue isn’t that what they do is different than traditional (or even “urban contemporary”) gospel. It’s that THEY view the worship music that they make as SUPERIOR to gospel. And because of their popularity, they have furthered the rejection of gospel music traditions in the Black church.

They’ve never tried to hide it. The explicit MAGA politics aren’t stated here, but they’ve always been clear about not wanting to be seen as a gospel act and resenting having to be categorized and marketed as gospel simply because they’re mostly Black. relevantmagazine.com/culture/musi...

@timdillinger.bsky.social and I have known this was the underlying mission and vision for Maverick City, and honestly the entire infiltration of praise and worship in the Black church, since the beginning, which we talked about back in 2021. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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I am convinced the music industry as it currently exists is designed at the fundamental level to deteriorate the mental health of music artists.