Top 100: #14 Are You Ready? (Gold City)

Release Year: 2000

Album Rank for Group: #7 of 15

Here’s a blurb: My favorite Gold City lineup ushered in the 2000s with another strong recording.  At the time of this album’s release, with the Cathedrals just retired, Gold City was perhaps the strongest and most popular group on the road in southern gospel.  With the quartet reaching more ears than anyone not named Gaither, and with the uncertainty surrounding the new millennium, this album hit a home run with the title track.  Written by the late, great Doug Riley, it is one of the most powerful messages on the second coming I have heard.  That power ballad is the cornerstone of the recording, but it is surrounded by the usual,  strong, uptempo songs.  Notable among those is “Get Up, Get Ready,” which is still a big crowd-pleaser over a decade later.

Knock my socks off: Are You Ready, Since Jesus Touched Me, Get Up Get Ready

Don’t skip that one: Livin’ Forgiven, Saved, More Like Jesus, Touch This Child Again, God Will Provide

I could honestly do without: Keep Me on the Wheel

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    • Brent on February 27, 2012 at 8:56 pm
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    I’m still looking for “Standing In The Gap”… 🙂

    1. I can safely say that you won’t be waiting much longer. 🙂

      • quartet-man on February 27, 2012 at 10:01 pm
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      You might try Amazon or eBay. 😉

        • quartet-man on March 5, 2012 at 11:59 am
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        Okay Brent, even if you didn’t find it at those places, it has shown up on the list now. :p

    • Brent on March 7, 2012 at 9:28 pm
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    LOL.. thanks Quartet-man, im been bothering Brian on when it was going to show up on the list. It’s my all time favorite Gold City album.

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