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NASHVILLE, TN—New Haven Records president Ken Harding is very enthusiastic about the August release of Gordon Mote’s 2018 project, Love, Love, Love--the 11th album from the celebrated Academy of Country Music Award-winning artist and the third on the New Haven Records label. Says Harding, "The reports we’re getting from radio and live concerts are nothing short of fantastic, demonstrating again why Gordon is one of Nashville’s premier singers, songwriters, and instrumentalists.” For example, Jan Puryear of Jan Puryear Promotions has received stellar reviews from Southern Gospel radio programmers about the first single, which is also the title cut: "From the moment I first heard ‘Love, Love, Love’ I knew this was going to be a number one song! I just ‘Love, Love, Love’ this song!”  --Brian Crowe, Gospel Radio Favorites/101.7 "When you listen to Gordon, you know it's gonna be good! With this song, you can feel the love as well as hear it. It rem...

CHICAGO , IL , JULY 24, 2018 - Chicago-based television production company Central City Productions (CCP) announced today the 2018 Black Music Honors - the annual two-hour television special that honors artists and musicians who have influenced and made significant contributions to American music. The television special is set to take place on Thursday, August 16th in Nashville, TN.   This year's honorees for the 2018 Black Music Honors include  Bobby Brown , who will receive the R&B Soul Music Icon Award for his 40 years in entertainment and 32 years as a solo artist,  Bebe and Cece Winans , who will be co-honorees of the Gospel Music Icon Award, and chart-topping music producer and label executive  Dallas Austin , who will be presented with the Music Innovator Icon Award, and multi-platinum, Grammy® Award-winning recording artist, songwriter and producer  Faith Evans , who is set to receive the Urba...

Hawthorne Celebrates Five #1s on latest Gospel Charts for Unstoppable and “Won’t He Do It” Nashville, TN (July 25, 2018) – Rising star Koryn Hawthorne celebrates with her fans around the world as her debut album Unstoppable , which was released on July 13 th , sparks a slate of #1s on the latest Gospel charts.  The album debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top Gospel Albums chart, and garnered over 1.2 million streams in its first week of release.  Unstoppable’s hit anthem “Won’t He Do It” continues its stronghold on the charts and at radio, sitting in the top spot on Billboard’s Hot Gospel Songs chart, Billboard’s Gospel Digital Song Sales chart, Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart, and the MediaBase Gospel chart.  The song has been on Billboard’s Hot Gospel Songs chart at #1 for 19 weeks overall.  In addition, it’s been #1 on Billboard’s Gospel Digital Song Sales chart for twelve weeks overall, #1 for eleven weeks overall on Billboard’...

From the Rasmussen poll. . . Even with the knowledge that Russians were able to hack into U.S. computers the Amerian people still have faith in the U.S. intelligence organizations.  And, President Donald Trump's approval rating among Republicans is high according to a new Rasmussen poll released on Monday. Despite widespread bipartisan condemnation over Trump initially denying the veracity of  U.S. intelligence reports of Russia meddling with emails during the 2016 presidential election at the Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin last Monday, voters still think U.S intelligence agencies are doing a good job. (But, 45% of voters think U.S. intelligence agencies have their own political agenda.) The GOP remains overwhelmingly supportive of the president following what some have dubbed the president's worse week ever.    Trump blundered in Helsinki at the top of the week, apologized and walked back his apology by hump ...

TRUMP TO SUPPORTERS: What you are seeing and what you are reading is not what's happening."  Ladies and gentlemen, you have just entered the twilight zone, THE YEAR IS "1984." This is what happens when you get your news from a presidential tweet and refuse to be educated about past and current events.  REMEMBER GEORGE ORWELL'S CLASSIC BOOK, "1984." HERE IS A QUICK SYNOPSIS OF THE PLOT. . .IN THE BOOK, WINSTON SMITH OF LONDON LIVES IN THE FICTIONAL NATION OF OCEANA (NOT BRITAIN) IS BEING WATCHED BY BIG BROTHER WHEREVER HE GOES.  THE BIG BROTHER CONTROLS THOUGHTS, LANGAUGE AND FREEDOM.  THEY WANT TO STRIP THE PEOPLE OF ALL RIGHTS AND CONTROL THEM FULLY. WINSTON WORKS IN THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH WHERE THEY TRY TO PERSAUDE PEOPLE THROUGH USE OF DECEPTION, BUT HE HATES THE PARTY.   HE IS AGAINST THIS SOCIETY, BUT IT IS THROUGH HIM WE LEARN ABOUT THE DISTOPIAN WORLD AND THE PART OF THE GOVERNMENT GOAL TO RE-SHAPE REALITY.  THIS IS SIMILAR TO K...

Today Grammy-winning R&B artist R. Kelly paraded a 19-minute song entitled "I Admit" about his innocence online, despite continuous sexual misconduct allegations.  The song was released on Facebook and just as fast as it went viral, an online movement started to shut him down was organixed. Kelly has been accused of sexually abusing women and teenage girls and  running a sex cult for over a decade and is a suspected pedophine who many believe does not deserve the spotlight.  In the song he denied the existence of a cult. Kelly has never been convicted of a crime and dismissed the claims of numerous victims as rumors.  He has continued to move on with his career since 2003 when he was acquitted of child pornograpy charges.  This time Chicago concert was cancelled and he to all m fansin Chicago and around where I never heard of a show being cancelled because of rumors. . .I'm try to get to the bottom of it as far as my lawyers. . .don't put that on me. It a...