Reviewed by Tony Cummings

Denny was cutting excellent blue-eyed soul gospel long before it was a voguish thing to do and his disappearance from America's CCM scene has long been regretted by this reviewer. So his return here is most welcomed particularly as it shows the wrinkly has lost none of his chops, that rich, gravelly voice still able to produce instant goosebumps. What stops the album running off with a five star accolade is the material. All self-penned, it suffers from melodic dullness and lyrics which, considering the man has presumably got much new spiritual insight after his retirement, teetering dangerously close to the simplistic. Best song by far is the African-style title track but though producer Larry Brown does a sterling job with the pop-rock arrangements, dull songs are dull songs. So not quite the album to blow all the cobwebs away. Still, if you're looking for a voice to demonstrate Christendom had its own Michael Bolton years back, check out this particular gravelly larynx.

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