Aretha Franklin - One Lord One Faith One Baptism
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Artist: Aretha FranklinEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-05-06
Music Label: Arista
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Walk In The Light
- Prayer Invocation By Rev. Cecil Franklin
- Introduction Of Aretha And The Franklin Sisters By Rev. Jesse Jackson
- Jesus Hears Every Prayer
- Surely God Is Able
- The Lord's Prayer
- Introduction Of Aretha And Mavis Staples By Rev. Jesse Jackson
- Oh Happy Day
- We Need Power
- Speech By Rev. Jesse Jackson
- Ava Maria
- Introduction To Higher Ground By Rev. Jaspar Williams
- Higher Ground
- Prayer Invocation By Rev. Donald Parsons
- I've Been In The Storm Too Long
- Packing Up, Getting Ready To Go
- Be Grateful
- Beams Of Heavens (Some Day)
- Father, I Stretch My Hands To Thee
- Packing Up, Getting Ready To Go (Alternate Version)
Music reviews of One Lord One Faith One Baptism
Music Review: Not "Amazing Grace" Caliber, But It Has It's Moments!!
Rating: 3 Stars
By the time this album came out in 1987, entitled "One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism",
the long anticipated follow-up to the fantastic and iconic 1972 gospel double album
"Amazing Grace", Aretha's once unparalleled vocal instrument was weathered from
years of hard singing, weight fluctuations, age, and a 20 year smoking habit
which left it raspy and not as clear in it's higher register as it once had been.
Not to say that The Queen still couldn't work her mid and lower registers well enough
to upset the church as she always had when she took to the mike at her home church
of New Bethel Baptist, but you could still hear that her best days were behind her by then.
There are some great moments on here, like the arrangement of "Ave Maria",
which Aretha gives a baptist gospel singer meets metropolitan opera diva treatment!
She also does "The Lord's Prayer" with a pretty good measure of finesse, but again...
the raspy highs wear on the ears after awhile.
Then there's the Clara Ward tribute of "Surely God Is Able" and
"Jesus Hears Every Prayer", where she muses in tone about the good old days of
her childhood growing up in her father's old church (New Bethel had an old church down
on Hastings & Willett which had been rebuilt by the time this album was recorded,
just three years after her father's tragic death.) and seeing all of the old gospel
greats like Clara & The Ward Singers, The Swan Silvertones, The Gospel Harmonettes,
The Dixie Hummingbirds, etc., and she is joined onstage by her cousin Brenda,
baby sister Carolyn, who wrote some of her most soul-stirring soul ballads
and who would succumb to cancer just a year after this album was released,
and also her older sister Erma (now deceased) for some good old time gospel harmony!
Other highlights are a few of the sermon's given by her late brother/manager and
ordained minister, Cecil Franklin, who would also succumb to cancer two years
after this album was released, as well as a few of the other guest ministers
who were asked to speak during the three day gospel program which served as the
recording sessions for this album. The duets between her and the legendary Joe Ligon
of the fabled Mighty Clouds Of Joy, who Aretha herself hails as "One of the most soul-stirring
voices of the 20th Century!" are particularly rousing as well!
"I've Been In The Storm Too Long" and the later released on this digitally remastered
20th anniversary commerative of this album as a bonus track, "Beams From Heaven",
which is an old black gospel staple, are both "raise the rafters" quality in the
vein of the "Amazing Grace" album. But there again, Aretha's voice, though effective
for the occassion, is not at it's clearest. Overall, I give this album 3 stars because
with exception of the songs I mentioned, the rest of the album is just okay, and even
some of the keys of the songs seem weird to me.
I guess it was just hard for The Queen of Soul to even live up to the high standard
that she set on "Amazing Grace"....but even a slightly off her game Aretha is better
than a whole lot of today's so-called singer's at their best!
For her, I know this album is special because it is the first album she produced herself
as well as a time capsule of her and her siblings, all of who are deceased now,
singing, shouting and praising GOD in the way they had done since childhood.
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