TisaAwesome
Next Level Gospel (2012)
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog
Awesome, by Latisia Renee Wood, aka Tisa (pron. tee-sah), is a live album produced by triple threat VaShawn Mitchell, who also contributes two songs to the project, including the title track.
The album offers a stack of devotionals from a variety of songwriters. This is a smart decision for an indie recording artist because, unless he or she is a supremely gifted writer, it enables listeners to evaluate the singing in the context of familiar tunes. Put another way, a not particularly powerful song can lessen the singer’s impact in the ears of the beholder.
Mitchell’s “Awesome” is the strongest song on the album, and a crowd pleaser, because Tisa sings it with plenty of confidence. She also does a fine job on the mellow “It Belongs To Him,” a selection that sounds a little like Mitchell’s “Turning Around For Me,” but not deliberately, because it was written by Markeyta L. Sconiers-Boone in 2005.
“Didn’t Have To Do It” gives praise a rationale. Tisa sings that God is worth praising because, among other things, He didn’t have to set us free. “Tell It,” another Mitchell composition, is a head-bobbing, feel-good song. “Give Us This Day” is a dramatic recitative that could have been an extraordinary moment, but it does not reflect Tisa ’s strongest vocal work.
Awesome was recorded live at Mt. Gilead Full Gospel International Ministries in Richmond , Virginia Tisa ’s collection of accolades is semi-finalist in Bishop Paul Morton’s Gospel Dream Talent Search. So…does being a wife, mother, singer, and college basketball player make Tisa a quadruple threat? I’m thinking it does.
Three of Five Stars
Picks: “Awesome.”
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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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Love the song Awesome,looking foward to buying CD.