Tim Dillinger
@timdillinger
Writing the New York Community Choir biography. Curator of #GodsMusicIsMyLife at Substack/YT. Consulting producer on Peabody-winning podcast When We All Get to Heaven.
This week's newsletter reflects on four of The Famous Caravans--founder Albertina Walker, Dorothy Norwood, Inez Andrews, and Shirley Caesar, and how they navigated a changing gospel landscape in 1986. godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/1986-the-c...
The brand new #GodsMusicIsMyLife is UP! This week looks at the Wham!concert/docu-film 10 Days in China and puts it in conversation with British CCM artist Chris Eaton's 1986 debut album Vision. READ HERE: open.substack.com/pub/godsmusi...
A few months ago, I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Lynn Nichols who was behind some of Contemporary Christian Music's most groundbreaking and radical records. We focused on artists and albums from 1986 and I learned so much! READ HERE: open.substack.com/pub/godsmusi...
The brand new newsletter is up-and looks at some of Madonna's collaborators from the last 40 years and their connections with gospel and contemporary Christian music. READ HERE: open.substack.com/pub/godsmusi...
Church of The Good Groove (June 21, 2026) Curated by Tim Dillinger & @soulandjazz.com #LatestShows #OnDemand #FreeToStream 🎧 buff.ly/mUYedev Church of The Good Groove – a one hour show of soulful flavours from the #gospel side of the musical spectrum. #COTGG #14GoodReasons #Discover
The brand new God's Music Is My Life celebrates the digital re-release of Reba Rambo's historic 1968 debut solo album, "On the Folk Side of Gospel," which was released to digital music outlets on Friday. Read here: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/1968-reba-...
The brand new God's Music Is My Life newsletter revisits the debut album of Rich Mullins which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. READ HERE: open.substack.com/pub/godsmusi...
The new God's Music Is My Life is UP! This week looks at gospel-infused songs that hit Billboard's charts in 1986 by Aretha Franklin, George Michael, Genobia Jeter & Sylvester (w/ Jeanie Tracy, Tramaine Hawkins & Lynette Hawkins-Stephens). READ HERE: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/1986-i-wan...
The brand new God's Music Is My Life is UP! This week looks at the Altar Boys' 1986 cover of Donna Summer's "Unconditional Love," and reflects on her unsung impact on contemporary Christian music, and their shared missions. READ HERE: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/1986-uncon...
The brand new God's Music Is My Life newsletter is up!!! This week I'm looking at Kim Boyce's debut album which turns 40 this year!! Read about how she brought dance, pop, and a new sense of freedom to a hesitant Christian music culture. READ HERE! godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/1986-you-c...
The brand new God's Music Is My Life newsletter is UP! This week looks at the productions of Nashboro Records' Shannon Williams who was both a preserver of traditional gospel and innovator of contemporary gospel. READ HERE: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/1976-the-p...
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...
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'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...
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! This week, I examine the releases from that year that made the 1975 Grammy nomination list in the Best Soul Gospel Performance category! Read here: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/1975-best-... @followers
This week's #GodsMusicIsMyLife examines three albums from 1975 by D.J. Rogers, Andraé Crouch & The Disciples, and Danniebelle Hall, that all expanded the notion of what contemporary gospel could sound like and where it could go. Read here: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/1975-the-w...
The brand new God's Music Is My Life newsletter is up....with some major news about my New York Community book!! Read here: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/new-york-c...
The brand new God's Music Is My Life newsletter is UP! This week, I take a look at 5 albums by the 2ND CHAPTER OF ACTS, B.C.& S. the NEW YORK COMMUNITY CHOIR and its offshoot REVELATION, and the JOHN HASON SINGERS. Read here: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/5-groups-w...
The brand new God's Music Is My Life newsletter takes a deeper look at the artists included in April's Church of the Good Groove playlist! Read more and listen here! godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/church-of-...
The brand new God's Music Is My Life newsletter is UP! This week, I take a look Shirley Caesar's 3 releases of 1975 which turn 50 this year, beginning with her crossover hit, "No Charge," a country song about a mother's unconditional love. READ HERE: godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/1975-shirl...
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...
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, 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...
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-...
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...