MUSIC: WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES

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WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES
1. GOD IS STANDING BY
2. WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES
3. I ADORE YOU LORD
4. HIS LOVE
5. LOVE OF GOD
6. HEAVEN IS MY HOME
7. ON JESUS PROGRAM
8. THE SOUL STIRRERS MEDLEY
9. LOVE’S IN NEED OF LOVE TODAY
10. IF I COULD REACH OUT AND HELP

Walk a Mile in My Shoes is Otis Clay’s first set of gospel studio material since the Blind Pig release The Gospel Truth in 1993. Clay freely mixes the unbridled showmanship and bittersweet soul balladry of the secular with his religious conviction, and his intensely honest vocal delivery appeals to both audiences regardless of lyrical content. With horn-laden arrangements reminiscent of his recordings for Hi Records in the ’70s, these tracks include “A Soul Stirrers Medley,” featuring Soul Stirrers Leroy and Arthur Crume. There is a duet with Carla Thomas (“If I Could Reach Out and Help”) performed live at the Chicago Gospel Festival along with new interpretations of O.V. Wright’s “On Jesus Program,” Stevie Wonder’s “Love’s in Need of Love Today,” and Joe South’s modern standard “Walk a Mile in My Shoes.”

All Music Guide, by Al Campbell

“Is he soul? Is he blues? Is he gospel? Yes, and he moved to Chicago from Mississippi as a boy and has become an iconic figure in all those genres.” -Chicago SunTimes

“Walk A Mile In My Shoes is so good it might well be a contender for a 2007 Grammy gospel award…” –Living Blues Magazine

“At the WTTW 50th Anniversary Celebration in Millennium Park, with the glorious Liberty Baptist Church Choirs smoldering behind him, Otis Clay breathed fire, singing “When All God’s Children Get Together.” If you’d closed your eyes, you might have thought you were in church on Sunday morning, wave upon wave of glorious sound sweeping across the crowd — or was it a congregation? As Clay shouted his incantations and the choristers answered in kind, the audience joined in, clapping on the offbeats, stomping feet to the concrete, offering up spontaneous “amens.” In these indelible moments, a mass of humanity — various races and ages and demographics — came together in a visceral way that doesn’t happen often enough.” –Chicago Tribune