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Rhema Records, Inc.

By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.

Sacred love songs are the rage these days. 

Fred Hammond’s recent two-disc Love, God & Romance put it all in perspective.  Kevin Levar’s wedding-day ballad, “We’re Just Getting Started,” was made into a single.  The most popular essay on TBGB is a list of gospel songs suitable for weddings.

Singer-songwriter Darryl Henry contributes to the sacred love oeuvre with Relationships.  It is a full-length and (basically) quiet storm-accompanied treatise on making relationships work.  On the opening track, “Teach Me How To Love,” Henry sets the record straight for those who may think his album is a secular offering in inspirational clothing: he calls on God for instruction on how to be a good husband.  He follows this track with “I Love You,” a song of love for God who was there for him when times were rough.

From there, the songs on Relationships are about love for man, woman, and God.  Sometimes the lyrics are explicit about the love interest and sometimes they invite interpretation.  For example, on “Now That I’m Yours,” the lovely-voiced Shamica Muniz seems to be singing about a human love interest, though the song could just as easily be interpreted as a song about love for God.  Muniz assists Henry throughout the project, providing the female perspective.

One of the album’s more energetic tracks, “Build Me Up,” calls for couples to use supportive words to build up, not knock down.  Similarly, “Dialog” offers lessons for better one-on-one communication.

While Relationships stays on point, some melodies and lyrics work better than others.  The final track, “If You Stay,” concludes that we all make mistakes because we are works-in-progress.  Its story line could have been woven through the CD as a series of interstitials, not unlike what Hammond did on his project.  Nevertheless, Relationships has its finger on the pulse of Christians looking for love in all the right places.

2012-09-27 00:25:03

Source: http://www.theblackgospelblog.com/2012/09/darryl-henry-relationships.html