STYLE: Gospel RATING OUR PRODUCT CODE: 1350-2022 LABEL: Wellspring Gospel SPD1711 FORMAT: CD Album ITEMS: 1 RRP: £9.98
Reviewed by Tony Cummings
After her ventures into praise and worship and the long standing critically acclaimed career recording with her brother BeBe, CeCe Winans presents us with a new project on her own record label. She's grown away from the urban pop of her earlier music and this album is a bit of a genre straddler from worÂship to urban. With that in mind, who better to employ on the production team than Fred Hammond? The percussive funk of "King Of Kings" is classic Hammond as is the breezy "Love Of My Heart" and the compelling slow funk of "Without Love". As this is a late '90s gospel album, there are four production teams working on the project! CeCe is, of course, in fine voice and whether it's the sheer joy of "Higher Place Of Praise" or the vulnerability of the slow, slow ballad "Blessed, Broken And Given", these are songs designed to inspire and encourage. It's the huge ballads that CeCe clearly enjoys the most and they don't come better than "It Wasn't Easy" which is a prophetic ballad, the voice of God coming through the speakers reminding the listener how much they are worth. On the title cut, the lush orchestral arrangement immediately signals that this is going to be The Big One, the album's centrepiece telling the story of the woman who anointed Jesus. Polished gospel that is well produced, 'Alabaster Jar' is not an absolutely classic gospel album but it's still satisfying.
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Cece's been a role model as you can tell she is convinced
about the personality and life of which she sings about. I
feel her give from the store of what she has in her inner
man. The likes of " It wasn't easy" and " Comforter",
generally brings to focus the amazing power that God reveals
in us and through us. No wonder he calls us the light of the
world! We can value who we are made to be and impact
people's lives with that light he's ignited us with, acting
as God's own vessels of impact. In our immediate
environments and th eworld at large.
Cece's been a role model as you can tell she is convinced about the personality and life of which she sings about. I feel her give from the store of what she has in her inner man. The likes of " It wasn't easy" and " Comforter", generally brings to focus the amazing power that God reveals in us and through us. No wonder he calls us the light of the world! We can value who we are made to be and impact people's lives with that light he's ignited us with, acting as God's own vessels of impact. In our immediate environments and th eworld at large.