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FORMAT: CD Album Reviewed by John Cheek The highly-talented London-based worship leader, songwriter, singer and guitarist returns with a collection of worship songs which sound as fresh as the latest contemporary chart hits. A very easy album to get into, there are some intriguing echoes of Andrae Crouch but also the current artist, Michael Kiwinuka. Yet Kyte transcends genres and comparisons. The opener "All My Hope Is Found", not least in the intro, displays a slight, Polyphonic Spree-feel, w...

Ole Anthony and the God Thing In which Joe Bob Briggs, America’s irreverent drive-in movie critic, gets religion. Ole Anthony was the only preacher I ever met who wanted to talk about getting laid. To be fair, he mostly talked about not getting laid and the crimp it put in his lifestyle. But there were nights in the early ’80s when we would hang out at smoky, boozy joints like Arthur’s, the notorious upscale pickup bar in North Dallas, and svelte elegant women with bedroom eyes would lin...

LETTER: Easter perfect time for healing Santa Rosas Press Gazette Man solving the hatred/racism (sins) destroying America is an exercise in futility.  This nonagenarian reiterates God’s is the only solution, being “Born again,” from the inside out! (John 3:7). Soon Christians will celebrate the risen Lord and Savior of the world, Jesus Christ!  He changes hearts, (not the anatomical muscle) whereby sins are forgiven, eradicated!  Until God touches hearts through Jesus Christ, hatred/r...

February 17, 2021 Carman Dominic Licciardello, the CCM icon known to fans around the world as Carman, has passed away according to a statement from his publicity firm. The singer, who had been battling complications resulting from a hernia surgery, was 65 years old. Carman was one of a kind, an entertainer all to his own. He became a Christian at an Andrae Crouch concert before briefly working with Bill Gaither. But Carman’s ambitions were enormous, and he quickly established a reputation f...

The Pointer Sisters performing in New York City in 1983, the year the group released its album em Break Out /em , which included four top 10 hits. If you spun the dial of your AM/FM radio on any given day in the early 1980s, chances are you heard a Pointer Sisters record. The group was in heavy rotation in a variety of formats whose playlists included Duran Duran, Bruce Springsteen and the Human League or Patti LaBelle and Earth, Wind and Fire. The electro-pop sound of the Pointer Sisters "Jum...

*The pandemic restrictions in 2020, which started in March, slowed the entertainment industry down, but it didn’t stop the flow of coverage by The Pulse of Entertainment. Highlights for the year included my interviews with Academy Award-winning Harrison Ford (Star Wars, Indiana Jones) about his role in the 20 th Century Fox remake presentation of The Call of the Wild, 16-time Grammy Award-winning Brian McKnight (“Back at One”) about his last album “Exodus,” and famed film d...

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