“Still Standing” – Rev. Stefanie Minatee & Jubilation

“Still Standing”

Rev. Stefanie Minatee & Jubilation

Available on iTunes

Fresh from their collaboration with Queen Latifah on the title track of EMI’s Grammy Award-winning compilation Oh Happy Day, Rev. Stefanie Minatee & Jubilation have released a new single. It’s a bluesy version of A. Jeffrey LaValley’s “Still Standing,” complete with that old style “rocking chair” tempo I refer to as the gospel waltz.

Minatee opens by quoting, with an evangelist’s declamation, Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians 4:8. Referencing her own testimony (“I should have been dead a long time ago”), Minatee joins Jubilation in encouraging those “who have been cast down…persecuted…trouble on every side” to push on, because “you are not forsaken.”