Music
March 14, 2024
The New Billy Preston Documentary Will Take You to Church—When It Sticks to Music
The film on the Houston piano prodigy and so-called “fifth Beatle” honors Preston’s career but strays when it depicts his personal life.
Gospel
Music
February 14, 2013
Exclusive Album Stream: “The Electric Word,” by The Relatives
The long-lost Dallas gospel-funk group release their first studio album more than thirty years after they broke up
Music
December 1, 2010
The Soul of a Man
For nearly sixty years, a succession of obsessed blues and gospel fans have trekked across Texas, trying to unearth the story of one of the greatest, and most mysterious, musicians of the twentieth century. But the more they find, the less they seem to know.
Music
June 30, 1998
Soul Survivor
His mentor, Sam Cooke, is long dead, but Dallas’ Johnnie Taylor is alive and well and still living at the top of the charts.
Music
August 31, 1997
Heavenly
The heavenly hits of God’s Property.
Music
April 30, 1997
Jaci Velasquez
“Sure, I miss having a locker and going to the prom,” says gospel-singing sensation Jaci Velasquez. True enough, the seventeen-year-old Houston native has not had what you would call a normal adolescence. At age ten she began traveling around the U.S. and Latin America with her family’s music ministry. Four
Music
August 31, 1996
Music • Kirk Franklin
The voice of God.
Music
June 30, 1977
They’re Playing Their Song
It takes all kinds of ethnic music to make the world go round.