“Spiritual”
Donald Lawrence & Co.
From the forthcoming Verity CD YRM (Your Righteous Mind)
http://www.verityrecords.com/
Donald Lawrence is one of the managing architects of today’s contemporary gospel sound, striking chord after chord with modern churchgoers.
The new single, “Spiritual,” is quintessentially Lawrence – the man conversing casually but declaratively with his Company in call-and-response fashion. Everything moves to a strutting-on-a-hot-summer-day rhythm and toward a thunderous choral buildup, with crowd-pleasing staccato exhortations by the singers peppered within. “Spiritual” is like the unhurried, funky uncle of Lawrence’s popular “Back II Eden.”
The title refers to “spiritual” not as a type of song – as in “I’m going to sing an old spiritual” – but as a way of life, an experience, a state of being for which everyone must strive.
Written by : Bob Marovich
Bob Marovich is a gospel music historian, author, and radio host. Founder of Journal of Gospel Music blog (formally The Black Gospel Blog) and producer of the Gospel Memories Radio Show.
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