“I’ll Make It Someday”
Luther Barnes & the Sunset Jubilaires
From the CD The Barnes Family Reunion II
AIR Gospel 2008
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One of gospel quartet’s finest gentlemen, Luther Barnes leads his Sunset Jubilaires on a slow-paced and melancholy but optimistic testimony to living a life of grace. Doing so will ensure that the eternal resting place beyond the river, the “Promised Land,” is attainable. When he gets there, Barnes sings that he will “walk the streets of gold…put on my long white robe….and most of all, I’ll be satisfied if I could just see my Savior’s face.”

“I’ll Make It Someday” is from the second volume of music marking the Barnes Family Reunion, a musical heritage that received national attention with Rev. F.C. Barnes and Rev. Janice Brown‘s 1980s smash hit, “Rough Side of the Mountain.” The Barnes Family has for a quarter-century produced a treasure trove of straightforward, tuneful and memorable traditional gospel music.

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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.