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Ron C. Walters – Here Is My Life
Thursday, January 3, 2013 20:50
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Ron C. WaltersHere Is My Life
TMG-Grace Records (2012)
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.
Growing up on the east side of San Antonio , Texas
When other children were watching cartoons and spitting up oatmeal, Walters was playing drums. He started to learn piano at seven and guitar at nine. His lifelong interest in music got him on the Grammy ballots a couple of years running.
Walters’ new CD, Here Is My Life, finds the impressive singer flexing his soul chops, most especially on the single, “I Can’t Go For That,” a reworking of the 1981 Hall and Oates hit (TBGB’s Pick of the Week for December 31, 2012). The album’s opening track, the up-tempo hand-clapper, “Some Kind Of Way,” and “You Must Repent,” are equally soulful.
Christian rapper Phillp Williams (aka P.M.E.) cameos on two tracks, including the bonus selection, “Blowing in the Wind,” which is not the Dylan classic but essentially an original rap by P.M.E.
Walters does his best work/is most comfortable on songs with heavier beats, such as “From the Love of God,” though he does a fine job adding falsetto leaps to the delicate and retro-soulful “Getting Ready to Meet Him,” a clarion call to get ready for the judgment day.
“Some Kind of Way,” “You Must Repent,” and “I Can’t Go For That” are the album’s highlights because they are the most doggedly gospel of the lot.
Three of Five Stars
Picks: “I Can’t Go For That.”
2013-01-03 20:45:42
Source: http://www.theblackgospelblog.com/2013/01/ron-c-walters-here-is-my-life.html
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