Song for Pain: a Gospel Offering for Haiti
Thanks for the first-hand
account of unfolding tragedy, Jason. It's good to have you back.
I've spent the weekend in
Nashville for the 2010 Stellar Awards, as gospel celebrated their big night.
Lots of inspirational,
empathetic speeches and prayers as the show began and throughout the evening
for the victims of the tragedy unfolding in Haiti. Underpinning the
words, one of the evening's presenters, Kirk Franklin put the call out
earlier last week to singers assembling for the awards, to join him in
recording a relief record.
Past midnight on Friday, the
night before the Stellars, I packed into an overflowing, nondescript studio off
Music Row, while Kirk directed a classic, wailing Mary Mary overlay. I
didn't hear the whole song, but did get a preview of some of the chorus /
backup work, which was really uplifting. I bailed just before CeCe Winans
came to contribute, but they went well past 2:00 that morning.
I don't have many details,
but I know the working title is "Song for Pain," it's in
post-production and Kirk and others are working all hours to get their contribution out soon. I will post more about the project and how they plan to funnel
contributions, when I get firm details. – Hugo Munday
