Release Year: 1996
Album Rank for Group: #8 of 15
Here’s a blurb: The top twenty of my countdown kicks off with the first recording by the Gold City lineup that will find itself all over these rankings now, with six albums in the top twenty. The quartet had already shown that they would be just fine after the great turnover of the earlier part of the decade when LeFevre, Parker, and Free departed. The addition of Jonathan Wilburn built on that momentum and launched the group to the top of the genre in the post-Cathedrals era. Preparing the Way was a terrific start. The album contains the familiar hard-driving and polished quartet sound that would be this lineup’s trademark, but has enough stylistic variation to keep the listener on his toes, without straying too far from straight-up southern gospel.
Knock my socks off: He’s Still on the Throne, It’s Still the Cross, When the Lamb Becomes the Light, You’re at the Well
Don’t skip that one: Hello in Heaven, I’m Going Over, God Unlimited
I could honestly do without: Every Moment (this is certainly an exquisite performance, just not my style)
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