TBGB Pick of the Week: April 29, 2013

“Everybody Praise”

Temple of Deliverance Women’s Choir

A thunderous wall of 200+ female voices supports effervescent Memphian Carla Tolbert Taylor on “Everybody Praise,” a throbbing hand-clapper of a gospel chorus number.  The Temple of Deliverance Women’s Choir evokes the 1980s and 1990s choral rousers by the likes of Keith Pringle, Dr. Charles G. Hayes, and Rev. Maceo Woods.

Temple of Deliverance COGICwas founded in Memphisby the denomination’s former Presiding Bishop, the late Bishop G.E. Patterson, whose penchant for the old time songs is kept alive by the church’s current pastor, Superintendent Milton R. Hawkins.  The album release is scheduled for July 2013.