Top 100: #79 Anchored (Kingdom Heirs)

Release Year: 1997

Album Rank for Group: #10 of 10

Here’s a blurb: Anchored was the first Kingdom Heirs recording with Arthur Rice at lead that wasn’t simply a collection of southern gospel standards, and is their earliest album to make the Top 100.  You definitely hear the Kingsmen influence (Squire Parsons is all over the project), but you can also sense the establishment of the familiar sound the quartet carried until the group’s overhaul in 2002.

Knock my socks off: He Did Not Fail

Don’t skip that one: Singing in the Heavenly Choir, Anchored in the Rock, I Wanta Go There, When I Thank Him, Ever Since That Wonderful Day

I could honestly do without: Thank You for Praying, Invincible Faith