Donald Lawrence- The Law Of Confession Part I

Riding high off a massive wave of success from the double-GRAMMY work on the Clark Sisters’ reunion effort Live: One Last Time and producing debut offerings for DeWayne Woods, Sunday Best finalist Shari Addison and the Murrills, Donald Lawrence remains gospel’s latest renaissance man with the knack of solidifying chart-topping albums and chorally-embellished material fixed up with a polished production. In the world of rich, colorful gospel interpretation, Lawrence has build an earnest reputation around his crafty work with the now-retired Tri-City Singers and continues to model his more recent projects in the contemporary gospel traditions of old but with a more flaring embrace towards more pop-injected melodies. Then there’s the ambiguous usage of “feel-good” messages over the years, loaded with lyrical content of prosperity and blessings, tucked in Lawrence’s parading line of radio hits. Track back to “The Blessing of Abraham” and beyond: “I Speak Life,” “Giants,” “Healed,” “The Best Is Yet To Come,” “Never Seen the Righteous.”. All, in which, have a thematic underlining that bears a course of repetitiveness. Figuratively, it’s almost easy to predict the nature of Lawrence’s next step. Not surprising, Lawrence gives recession-burdened audiences a jolt of the same type of rhetoric using popular teleevangelist Bill Winston’s latest “name it and claim it” scriptural theories on his second solo album and his second concept album, The Law of Confession, Part I (his first was with the Tri-City Singers’ Bible Stories). Backing him up again is the faceless Co., a group of well-trained, yet relatively unknown singers that include the likes of Blanche McAllister-Dykes, Jason Nelson, Floyd Wilkinson, DeWayne Woods, Latrice Pace and Kim McFarland-Anderson.

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