The Journal of Gospel Music
“Your Life’s About to Change”
The Canton Spirituals feat. Pastor Tim Rogers
From the Malaco CD Keep Knocking (2016)
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On “Your Life’s About to Change,” the veteran Canton Spirituals get down to spiritual brass tacks with able solo assistance from Pastor Tim Rogers (Tim Rogers & the Fellas).
Turning on the story of a single mother struggling to care for her children, the assemblage rolls up its collective vocal sleeves, lays down a languid tempo, and sings about the one Father who knows how much we can bear and will never let us down.
No prosperity theology here, no praying for a Mercedes or a new house or fancy clothes—just help getting through the day-to-day. Gospel quartets know how to bring the numinous to street level, and the Cantons do it on this, their latest single.
