{"id":480,"date":"2011-10-16T14:11:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T19:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/?p=480"},"modified":"2024-06-06T23:26:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T03:26:15","slug":"total-praise-yes-i-like-gospel-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/16\/total-praise-yes-i-like-gospel-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Praise?  Yes, I Like the Gospel (Music)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since discovering it in high school, &#8220;Total Praise&#8221; by Richard Smallwood has remained my favorite piece of gospel music. Yes, perhaps it&#8217;s a bit ironic that I like gospel music, given I&#8217;m a Jewish-born Atheist. But so what. Interestingly, my favorite musical composer, Jason Robert Brown, has often indicated his inspiration comes from gospel as well. Maybe next week I&#8217;ll put some JRB music up here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s me playing &#8220;Total Praise&#8221; from the sheet music (cause I&#8217;m horrible at memorizing music):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Total Praise\" width=\"1160\" height=\"870\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dlm_Yrm5JSk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, for the real deal, check out Smallwood live from Atlanta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_mwCfn7kB1Y\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s another great one from Smallwood which may be more familiar: <a title=\"I Love the Lord - from The Preacher's Wife\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WcjP4LgW0Rw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;I Love the Lord&#8221; from the Preacher&#8217;s Wife<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And for a bit of diversity, <a title=\"Oh My Brother, Be Encouraged by Bishop Hezekiah Walker \" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Er_korff-_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Oh My Brother, Be Encouraged&#8221; by Hezekiah Walker<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know who the singer is, but she&#8217;s got a really cool voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since discovering it in high school, &#8220;Total Praise&#8221; by Richard Smallwood has remained my favorite piece of gospel music. Yes, perhaps it&#8217;s a bit ironic that I like gospel music,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pexels-photo-13244401.jpeg?fit=867%2C1300&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SwZ6-7K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"powerkit_post_featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/powerkit_post_featured?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}