Reviewed by Tony Cummings

The Source songbook is a fine, highly recommended resource to the worshipping churches. The albums under that name are a different matter. Remember years ago how Songs Of Fellowship put out dozens of albums, as they vainly tried to do a new studio recording of every song on their continually growing series of songbooks? Songs Of Fellowship/Kingsway finally ditched the idea as they belatedly discovered that consumers/worship leaders preferred the ORIGINAL versions of the songs of Matt Redman, Noel Richards, Graham Kendrick et al rather than anaemic studio versions by British session singers. Unfortunately, Kevin Mayhew/Alliance Music have yet to make this same discovery. So we've got Volume 2 of 'The Australian Worship Collection' where the songs of Geoff Bullock, Darlene Zschech, Russell Fragar etc are given competent but never exciting versions by producer Chris Norton. If anyone's interested, some of the tracks were produced in Nashville with American singers and some in Britain (where Sarah Lacy and that astonishing Sir Cliff-sound-alike Simon Goodall do a vocal or two). But despite 20 tracks on offer this is a hard album to recommend and you'd be better off purchasing some Hillsongs recordings.

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