“Name Sake” (Live Version)
Denise Clark
From the CD Denise Clark “Live” Overwhelmed
www.deniseclarksings.com
To the general public, the paradigm of gospel music is a fully-robed choir in joyous rapture, singing full-voiced at quick tempo, handclapping and swaying for the Kingdom. More often, however, gospel music in its various forms is performed by an individual or group at a slow tempo. The music is intense, dramatic, electric, a bundle of tension and release, and soaked to the skin with personal emotion and heartrending testimony.
Intense and dramatic certainly describe Denise Clark’s “Name Sake,” a selection from her new album, Denise Clark “Live” Overwhelmed.
Invoking in her disarmingly deep voice the mantra, “this time, this request,” Clark relates the inspiration for the song: her nephew who, as an unborn child, was recommended for abortion because he could wind up a vegetable due to an unusual heart condition. Making his health “this time, this request,” Clark sent her request heavenward, then asks the audience, “When’s the last time you ever talked to a vegetable?” She greets her nephew, present at the program, a healthy child who reads and goes to school.
Denise Clark is not the “forgotten” Clark Sister. She is a former member and lead singer with the nationally acclaimed gospel sensation Lamar Campbell & Spirit of Praise. She co-produced Denise Clark “Live” Overwhelmed, her sophomore project, a praise and worship outing, with the gifted Daniel Weatherspoon.
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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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It was certainly interesting for me to read the article. Thanks for it. I like such themes and anything connected to them. I definitely want to read a bit more soon.