Short Review: "Knowing You" (Faith Trio)

Pros:

• The music is pretty good, although a lot of the songs aren't on the scale I'd like them to be.
• Although I'm not completely pleased with the song selection on Knowing You, it does have some really great songs.  ("Were It Not For Grace," "Knowing You," "Heritage of Holiness," ect.)
• The percussion has improved since the last CD.  (The Anchor Holds)  GBS seems to have used that guitar (that  was so annoying when played on every song) much less sparingly.  Thank goodness!

Cons:

• As this CD was produced by the same studio/people that made The Anchor Holds,  it does have one of the same problems.  And that's the piano.  A real piano, or a realistic-sounding keyboard would help the songs sound better.
• Although I am pleased with some of the songs on the CD, I do not like some of the others.  For example, "Broken and Spilled Out" is nearly eight minutes long (7:54), and it's pretty boring.  "All Of Me," and "Abide in Me," though not as long, are still not very fun to listen to.  They're slow, tend to drag on, and aren't heavily orchestrated.

At least a couple of the songs should have more accompaniment/orchestration.  If I could pick two to arrange the music for, (if I could arrange that is!) they would be "Were It Not For Grace," and "Knowing You."
There aren't enough fast, fun songs.  There's four if you count "Heritage of Holiness."
IMO, "Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow" was kind of wasted space, as they sang it accapella.

Comments:
Knowing You is a good CD, but it's not on the scale of most Southern Gospel projects.  You probably won't want to spend $15 + shipping to purchase it, when there's so many other recordings that surpass it in production quality.  Still, I recommend listening via Grooveshark, because there are some very good songs.  3.5 stars

Favorite Songs: "Out of His Great Love," "Knowing You," "Were It Not For Grace"

(Note: You can listen to this CD on Grooveshark.)