Built around the message of the Gospel, Gospel Singer reflects on its implications in our world today.
'A remarkable album that inspires and challenges.' - Premier magazine
'Gospel Singer is by far the best album ever produced by Garth Hewitt.'
'This album is his strongest for years' - Cross Rhythms magazine
Produced by Paul Field with Melvin Duffy on pedal steel and Nick Haigh on fiddle and mandolin, Louise Fellingham and Adrian Thompson on backing vocals, and engineered by Trevor Michael at ICC studios Eastbourne in August 1999 - this strong album starts off with a traditional song called ‘Guide My Feet’ and then moves into the mystical ‘Rivers, Mountains and Trees’; then a song Garth wrote for the installation of Bishop Riah Abu Assal as Anglican Bishop of St George’s Cathedral Jerusalem - it’s a song about Nazareth because Bishop Riah is a man from Nazareth who follows a man from Nazareth. ‘Community of Love’ is a moving song about the community of San Pedro Sula in Honduras. This is followed by the driving ‘Oasis of Mercy’, and then ‘In the Name of God’, a song about the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin. Other songs reflect holidays in Cornwall, the transcendent ‘Sunrise of Wonder’, a song about the London community of churches called ‘Rumour of God’, ‘Candle of Hope’, ‘Three trees and an Open House’, the prayer ‘Within Listening Distance’ and the moving ‘The Followers’.