Music Review

Good News in Hard Times (1995)

EW's GRADE
A-

Details Release Date: Aug 22, 1995; Lead Performance: The Sisters of Glory; Genre: R&B

Albertina Walker and Thelma Houston join secular sirens of The Sisters of Glory— CeCe Peniston and Phoebe Snow among them — on the funky, inspiring tour de force of classic black gospel Good News in Hard Times. Surprisingly, it's Snow who steals the show with the roof-raising ''His Eye Is On the Sparrow.'' So good, it may get you to church. A-

Originally posted Aug 25, 1995 Published in issue #289-290 Aug 25, 1995 Order article reprints

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