Track Listing
1. Healed
2. I Speak Life
3. You Covered Me
4. Miracles
5. Right Now
6. Angels
7. Don't Forget to Remember
8. Say a Prayer Intro
9. Say a Prayer
10. Better
11. Wailin' to Dancin'
12. Lamb
13. Coming Strong
14. Restoring the Years
15. Beautiful Feet Intro
16. Beautiful Feet
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Carl Thomas, DJ Rogers, Donnie McClurkin, Faith Evans, Hezekiah Walker, Lalah Hathaway, Ramsey Lewis, Richard Smallwood, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Vanessa Bell-Armstrong | | Producer: | Donald Lawrence, Tommy Sims | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Donald Lawrence (vocals); DJ Rogers, Donnie McClurkin, Faith Evans, Hezekiah Walker, Lalah Hathaway, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, The Murrills, Carl Thomas (vocals); Richard Smallwood (piano); Ramsey Lewis (keyboards).
Recording information: Hinge Studios, Chicago, Illinois; Eclectic, Nashville, TN.
Donald Lawrence opens I SPEAK LIFE, his first record without the Tri-City Singers, with "Healed," a song where he delivers, in the most welcoming and relaxed tone, a universal sermon of finding recovery in a return to salvation. In the middle of the song, Lawrence unguardedly remarks "I like this part." It's that sense of openness that permeates the album, embodying the joy that makes Lawrence's gospel so markedly appealing.
This particular sense of joy has attracted, in addition to a legion of fans, many leading lights from both the inspirational and secular musical worlds to collaborate with Lawrence here. Like-minded preacher Hezekiah Walker joins Lawrence on a self-proclaimed "simple song," the funk-infused "You Covered Me." Faith Evans provides most of the vocals on the light R&B ballad "Say a Prayer," and Carl Thomas offers a more rousing presence on the hip-hop-flecked "Angels." Elsewhere, jazz notable Ramsey Lewis and R&B singer Lalah Hathaway present a lush interpretation of the skillful Lawrence composition "Don't Forget to Remember." Through it all, Lawrence pops in with observations and gospel, always earnest, always passionate, always speaking with the voice of a soul constantly seeking, yet ever at rest.
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