Noel Gourdin’s The River Played on The Tom Joyner Morning Show on Tuesday, May 27, 2008…

I just hear The River by Noel Gourdin played on the Tom Joyner Morning Show this morning. It was right after Tavis Smily finished his commentary that I heard those opening strains of The River welling up behind Tom Joyner’s voice.

But Tom Joyner didn’t give the name of The River by Noel Gourdin, so I thought I’d better put up a post about it for all those black folks that raced down to work to Google it.

Noel Gourdin’s really made it now. For I heard The River on my local radio station recently, and of course Steve Harvey help blow it up in the first place — but not every city gets Steve Harvey.

But just about every black folk in the world — okay, others too — get to hear The Tom Joyner Morning Show. So I’m glad to see it happening. And I bet folks think Gourdin is D’Angelo singing, but Noel is his own man.

The River is so significant…

Okay, that’s it.

Except that I’m thinking of the spiritual signifigance of rivers right now.

Because my son’s name translates to mean river. So he calls himself River sometimes.

And Dora in the background is talking about a river.

And I just read a blog post talking about why rivers are important to black people.

I bet Noel Gourdin will always feel that way about his river…

Noel Gourdin Getting More Press…

Noel Gourdin Google Alerts are coming thru more often now, and I’m glad to see Noel Gourdin getting more mainstream press, like on SOHH and on AOL Black Voices.

Of course, the bloggers are still lovin’ Noel Gourdin too, and more and more blogs are picking up on the momentum catapulting “The River” into the public light.

Noel Gourdin on Oprah - I can see it now…

I’m telling you Noel — I already see you singing “The River” on Oprah, ’specially since I’m a person big on writing down visions and watching the Author and Perfector bring them to pass…

Just imagine the fervent press Noel Gourdin’s gonna get after his After My Time CD drops…

Here’s audio Noel Gourdin singing The River live on The Steve Harvey Show.

It’s funny how you can hear the woman say, “That boy sounds good,” over his singing. He really does sound good. The crowd is lovin’ it, as you can hear.

I’m listening to Noel Gourdin talk to Steve Harvey on this part of the audio interview as Noel says his new CD coming out this summer 2008 will be called After My Time.

(Nothing up yet for it, but check here for Noel Gourdin’s After My Time CD during the summer 2008.)

Steve Harvey is right in that the lyrics of The River are something that we’ve been hungering for.

I heard The River again on XM radio riding back from Chicago — and even my husband (not really a lyrics person) was humming the song. So when “After My Time” drops this summer, you know ever’body gonna be all over it.

Here’s Noel Gourdin’s audio singing “One Love” at The Apollo.

Everyone’s been wondering when Noel Gourdin’s CD will be released.

There hasn’t been much news about it till today.

A Google News article by the EURWEB.com website — related to Tom Joyner’s Black America Web website — republished an article about Noel Gourdin’s CD.

They updated the title of it to say that Noel Gourdin’s “debut album streams into Summer 2008,” so I guess we can look for it then.

The accompanying pic of Noel Gourdin is new as well, so maybe that’ll be the cover photo.

As some of you know who’ve subscribed to his blog, Noel Gourdin just posted this MySpace blog post saying this:

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

ON THE RADIO
Current mood: excited

TUNE IN FOR NOEL
Noel Gourdin will be coming to a station near you. Put these dates on your calender.

Tuesday March 25,2008 @ WKZJ
Wednesday March 26, 2008 @ WTYH WLVH
Thursday March 27, 2008 @ WAKB WKSP
Friday, March 28,2008 @ WBHK

Guess I could Google these stations, but I’ve got a feeling I’ll be hearing Noel Gourdin songs all over the place soon.

Get ready for Oprah to come a-callin’ Noel!