“I Wanna Go” – Dorothy Norwood (Malaco 2009)

“I Wanna Go”
Dorothy Norwood
From the CD Fifty Years, It’s Been Worth It All (Malaco 2009)
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Seeing Shirley Caesar’s 2008 bid and raising it by ten years, fellow Caravan Dorothy Norwood celebrates a half-century in gospel music for Malaco Records on Fifty Years, It’s Been Worth It All.

The second single from the album, “I Wanna Go,” is Norwood’s arrangement of Dr. C.J. Johnson’s congregational song, “I Want to Go Where Jesus Is.” It has a twangy, strutting, walk-the-aisle backbeat. Norwood demonstrates that fifty years or no, she can still sing and shout strong and traditional. Both she and Caesar sound and look great on their respective retrospectives, a testimony that singing gospel is good, body and soul.