“This Kind by Fasting and Prayer”
Elder Jimmy Hicks and the Voices of Integrity
Worldwide Music, Inc.
2005
“This Kind by Fasting and Prayer” is a similar sounding follow-up to the group’s enjoyable hit, “Born Blessed,” and on the same CD as the latter, but in Elder Hicks’ case, sound-alike is a good thing.
Once again, the 43 year-old Elder Hicks tells a musical story with that old Louis Jordan-esque twinkle in his eye as he calls out church people who diss one another to their faces. The V.O.I. serve as head-shaking empathizers, a gospel version of a Greek chorus pointing out the obvious.
“This Kind” is Hicks as preacher-diplomat, picking up pieces of the broken Golden Rule off the church floor, wrapping them in the Word, and handing them back to congregants with a smile and furrowed brow.
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