I love talking about my favorite gospel music projects from down through the years, but I have found it difficult to make time to say all I want to say about so many of them. Over the next few months, partly inspired by Daniel Mount’s nifty 3:1 format, I will be counting down my personal 100 favorite gospel albums, usually with a brief synopsis of each. At times during the countdown, I will do a full-fledged Retro Review, especially in cases where I suspect not many readers have considered the project. The format for the brief reviews will be as follows:
Release Year: the year the project was released (make sense?)
Group Rank: How the album ranks among others by the same group (out of total number of group albums in my Top 100)
Here’s a Blurb: One or two sentences summarizing how I feel about the project.
Knock my socks off: The very favorite songs that still blow me away.
Don’t skip that one: Other songs that I highly enjoy, just not to the level of that first tier.
I could honestly do without: Songs that just don’t strike my fancy, for any number of reasons.
What you should not expect is a list of the “greatest” gospel albums of all time. That’s so difficult to define, and I’m not smart enough to decide that. You will see that the list will be thoroughly dominated by a few groups, but that’s just how my tastes run. This will be a list of my personal favorites, but I have a suspicion it will intersect with many of yours. I would love to get your agreement, disagreement, and any other thoughts as we go along. I don’t have a set schedule, but I would like to post at least three per week, which would take us a few months. So sit back and enjoy this trip through my music collection!
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