Sup folks! Today’s “Thank God It Played” is a little personal if you will. (Is it me or is “if you will” one of those odd phrases that just seems to work but never sounds natural?)  Well I guess it can’t be that personal if I’m sharing it on the blog. Ahhhh, you know what I mean. Although I usually only talk about gospel music and the events surrounding it here, sometimes I’ll have a moment where I feel like “sharing…” if that’s the word. I guess today is one of those days. Read the rest of this entry »

Not a whole lot of intro for this one, you can get that in Part 1.. Let’s get to it! Read the rest of this entry »

It’s official: Celebration Of Gospel is returning on January 30, 2011 for its 11th year! Steve Harvey returns as host and this year’s talent lineup is fun and shall I say rather FRESH. There are some new faces in the bunch, some R&B legends as well as some amazing gospel mainstays that I think will provide a good mix that Celebration of Gospel strives for.  There will also be special tributes to Bishop Walter Hawkins and Albertina Walker in this year’s show!

But that’s enough talking; check out who’s performing and appearing! Read the rest of this entry »

Sup folks.

Not sure if you’ve noticed but I’ve been a bit “quiet” lately. If you follow me on twitter or are friends of mine on Facebook, you’ll probably notice the last substantial status message I left went a little something like “UGH!!!!!!!!!!! bye y’all!” and that was it. After that I may have posted some links to some blog posts (new Donald Lawrence music, Malinda Sapp’s passing, etc.) and that was that.

Yes; crazy, funny, wacky, outgoing etc. “Torrence G” (as everyone calls me now due to my twitter name typo that stuck) sometimes hits a rough patch and has to navigate through some things. Had I stayed on the various social networks I’m pretty sure I would have snapped on someone and said something I couldn’t take back. As a matter of fact I’m pretty sure I did go off on a few buddies. It just gets that way sometimes as we can all testify to. So yeah, I took a little break from “people” to “heal” and deal with ME! It happens! Read the rest of this entry »