Kathryn Shipley’s Give Faith Single Review
Hej America!
The other day my friends at Bongo Boy records
asked me to give a listen to and share my thoughts
about a single they are releasing. The song is called
“Give Faith”. It is written by Gar Francis and is
performed by Kathryn Shipley. What really
sparked my interest is the fact that Kathryn Shipley
won the 2017 Josie Music Award in Nashville for
Artist of The Year in the Gospel/Country
category.
This song will be featured on the upcoming Bongo
Boy release Gospel Blues Volume Two. Having
grown up in Detroit I have a serious soft spot for Gospel music. Almost every Motown artist, at
least everyone I can think of started singing in church. Now, African-American churches are not
like Scandinavian Lutheran churches, African-American tend to have soul, that is they ROCK.
With that in mind I cued up Kathryn’s single.
The guitar starts out strumming some fairly basic chords and then boom the bass comes in and
gives the whole thing a funky, solid bottom. Her vocals are spot on and fit the tune and genre
well. I dig the beat the drummer is laying down. It is simple, yet powerful. The man is locked in.
Every once in a while I hear a little lightning off to the side coming from the electric guitar. The
country piano has just enough boogie in it to add a layer of soulful groove. Overall, this is a very
good song that fits the Gospel/Country genre perfectly. If you like your faith-based mu-sic to
swing, you will like this song. - The Grouch | in the Rockies