Joe Pace Presents
Praise for the Sanctuary
Tyscot Records (2010)
Tyscot Records has been busy releasing full-length albums of emotionally-charged praise and worship services. Among these are Bishop Leonard Scott Presents My Worship Experience; Lucinda Moore’s Blessed, Broken and Given; and Joe Pace’s Praise for the Sanctuary, the latter to be released tomorrow.
Praise for the Sanctuary is the best of the lot. Pace’s first album in three years is well executed with tuneful songs and a relentless vigor. Recorded live at Ginghamsburg Church in Tipp City , Ohio
The album is packed with special guests, including several pastors from the Dayton , Ohio New Orleans
The fetching and talented vocalist Tonya Baker provides the album’s finest moment when she gives “Speak a Word” a lovely and congregation-stirring reading. When the choir delivers an old hymn, “Down at the Cross,” the chirping of the B3 in its opening moments telegraphs the traditional sound to come. The album’s first single, “And We are Glad,” is a bouncy selection led by Pace and Koerry Mitchell.
Praise for the Sanctuary not only extends Minister Pace’s line of church worship products, it may also be the line’s best offering.
Five of Five Stars
gPod Picks: “Speak a Word,” “And We are Glad,” “Down At the Cross.”
Reviewed by Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.
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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