“Send the Praise Up”
William Smith, Jr. & The Renewed Voices for Christ
From the Psalms Music Group CD
Send the Praise Up (release date: June 2010)
www.psalmsmusicgroup.com
The title track of William Smith, Jr. & The Renewed Voices for Christ’s Send the Praise Up is a church-shaking, pew-emptying, relentless hand-clapping gospel chorus workout, Chicago style!
The Renewed Voices for Christ was formed in 1990 out of the Hyde Park High School Gospel Choir, the latter taking home first place in a choir contest sponsored by radio station WJPC in 1984. William Smith, Jr. came out of the city’s famed True Light Baptist Church and has been the musician and chief coordinator for RVC since the beginning. The group has sung on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” for Chicago’s Gospel Fest, at the Gospel Music Workshop of America and served as a monthly regular for the Chicago House of Blues Gospel Brunch.
Featuring a hard-charging female lead as altar-walking evangelist, “Send the Praise Up” instructs the listener to “lift Him up” and then “do your dance” all over the devil’s head.
Written by : Bob Marovich
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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