“Just Couldn’t Keep It”
Angela Spivey & the Voices of Victory
From Eyes on the Prize (Tekoa Records 2008)
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It’s hard to listen to or watch Chicagoan Angela Spivey and not have a smile on your face. When it comes to positive energy, Angie is a force of nature. Her happiness is infectious, and her upbeat, optimistic nature shines through her music.
A year ago almost to the day, TBGB made the exciting title track of her 2008 album, Eyes on the Prize its Pick of the Week. The latest single culled from the album, “Just Couldn’t Keep It,” is mid-tempo and straightforward, with calls from Angie and responses from the Voices of Victory, a group out of her home church, First Corinthians MB. The song riffs on the “I just couldn’t keep it to myself” theme that has appeared frequently in gospel music through the years.
Truthfully, Angie’s “Just Couldn’t Keep It” is not as compelling as “Eyes on the Prize,” but it is tuneful nevertheless, and sure to garner a radio following.
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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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Sorry but I can’t remember this song on her cd. The other 3 songs that were wonderful, This World Is Not My Home, Somehow I’m Going To Make It, and the duet with Tim White & Monty God Will. Angie’s real churchy stuff is great. She gives choirs stuff they can sing.