Reviewed by Mike Rimmer

They say that imitation is the biggest form of flattery so Ron Kenoly will be very flattered if he ever gets to hear this album! Alvin Slaughter engages his rich, raspy, powerful, soulful voice in a series of songs focussing on revival. Timely perhaps and there's enough good stuff here for me to be stirred although it's patchy in places. I like "God's Gonna Do It Again" which anticipates God sending revival. It is the closing two songs that make this worth getting. Firstly, "Revive Us Lord" builds up with a prayerful plea for God to pour out his Holy Spirit. From there the band take the congregation into praise overdrive. "Give God The Glory" sees Slaughter almost doing some good old fashioned testifying as he pulls out all the stops vocally. Brilliant actually! It's when the choir sing the line "Satan the blood of Jesus is against you" that the tingles start going down my spine! After this pair of songs I'm left thinking, "What's so bad about sounding like Uncle Ron in places?" God is glorified, surely revival is on its way and the final score here is God 1 Satan nil.

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