Release Year: 1988
Album Rank for Group: #11 of 15
Here’s a blurb: I don’t know if Portrait is among those cited by critics as Gold City’s most important albums, but it has always been one of my personal favorites, the best of the studio albums recorded by the 1980s supergroup. The quartet doesn’t sound particularly better here than on other recordings; I just love these songs. Ronny Hinson wrote four of them, and other writers include Squire Parsons, Gerald Crabb, and even a young Ernie Haase. This album includes the first Gold City song I ever heard, “Oh What a Day.” (Strangely, this happened not in the 1980s, but in the 2000s). So maybe it’s just sentimental value, but Portrait still stands high in my collection of gospel music.
Knock my socks off: Calvary’s Hill, Oh What a Day, Once Upon a Hill
Don’t skip that one: Jesus Will Lead Me, Still Small Voice, We’re Gonna Rise
I could honestly do without: I Love to Pray
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Ernie Haase, seriously? Which song?
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Ernie Haase wrote a song on this album called “Drink From the Well”.
Thanks.
I have the project, but didn’t notice in the linear notes that Ernie wrote it.
Or rather, that Ernie wrote the song (not the project).
Excuse my typo.