Amazing Love (CD - 2002)

Additional personnel includes: Frank Williams (vocals); Undra Watts (guitar); Michael Burton (saxophone); Jerry Smith (electric piano); Jimmy Weary (organ); Richard Thomas (bass); David R. Curry Jr., Sam Scott (drums).

Producers: David R. Curry Jr., Jerry Smith, Jerry Mannery.

Recorded at Thalia Maria Hall, Jackson, Missiouri. Includes liner notes by Mississippi Mass Choir.

Personnel: Undra Watts (guitar); David Curry (strings, horns, electric piano, organ, keyboards); Donovan Thigpen (strings, horns); Michael Burton (saxophone); Thurston Cox (electric piano, organ, keyboards); Barry Bolden (electric piano, organ); Jerry Lee Smith (electric piano); Jimmy Weary (organ); Sam Scott (drums).

Audio Mixers: David Curry; Jerry Masters.

Recording information: Thalia Mara Hall, Jackson, MS.

Directors: David Curry; Dorcus Curry Thigpen; Jerry Lee Smith; Rev. Benjamin Cone.

Photographer: Errol Dillon.

Unknown Contributor Role: Rev. Benjamin Cone.

Arranger: David Curry.

The Mississippi Mass Choir have been one of gospel music's most popular choirs since their inception in 1988. Their release, Amazing Love, finds the choir continuing their mission to break new ground. Guest vocalist Lecrecia Campbell unleashes her soaring soprano on the beautifully arranged "Lord You're Holy." The choir has always been noted for energy-charged, up-tempo material. They do nothing to disappoint, as can be witnessed through their high-powered performance on the track "Holding On." The choir displays their patriotic spirit through a moving arrangement of "America the Beautiful." A Mississippi Mass Choir project would not be complete without an inspirational spoken-word message from Rev. Benjamin Cone. He delivers the goods on the sermonic "A Widow's Love." To pay homage to the choir's founder, the late Frank Williams, producer Jerry Mannery took a page out of the Natalie Cole and Nat King Cole book by electronically pulling Williams' voice from a song he originally recorded with the Georgia Mass Choir entitled "My God Said It." Mannery placed Williams' voice with the newly recorded version of the song by the Mississippi Mass Choir. This should undoubtedly become a classic. ~ Tim A. Smith minimize