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Richard Smallwood enlists friends for new Live CD

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Contributed by: M Weber on 6/12/2007

Richard Smallwood is a Gospel music legend. His new project, Journey! Live in New York, has a dazzling roster of superstar guest artists, including Chaka Khan, Kim Burrell, Kelly Price, The Hawkins Family, and the original Smallwood Singers. Also featured are the tight harmonies of Vision, Smallwood's 21-voice choir since the mid-1990s.

To help him celebrate his 25 years of recording, Smallwood invited several artists to be part of this new recording. Gospel great Kim Burrell fans into full flame on the album's arresting title cut. Superstar Chaka Khan, who recently gave her life to Christ, turns in a commanding take on the propulsive Gospel/funk of "Precious Is Your Name." Reigning R&B diva, Kelly Price, literally soars on the ballad, "Morning's Breaking." The Hawkins Family-- Walter, Edwin, Lynette and Tramaine--career-long friends and contemporaries of Richard, exult in the dare-you-to-sit-still, straight-ahead, Sunday-morning Gospel of "We've Come Too Far," written for the project by Walter and Richard, while Richard and his original, five-voice Smallwood Singers have a joyful reunion on "He Won't Leave You," a gentle ballad that locks into a smooth, percolating groove, and a delightfully righteous reinvention of "Holy, Holy."

"I hope and pray to increase this ministry in a way that will do supernatural work in the hearts and lives of the listeners," says Smallwood.

Check out Journey! Live in New York, in stores now.

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