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Article: Shirley Caesar records first album in seven years

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September 9, 1995
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Akindele Akinyemi
Michigan Citizen
09-09-1995
Shirley Caesar records first album in seven years.

Shirley Caesar Live... He Will Come is an album of a lifetime. In a career that began when today's First Lady of Gospel was only 10 years old, that's saying quite a lot. But some things only improve of herself-as artist and minister-has never been clearer or communicated with more authority.

Recorded entirely live, He Will Come distills the perfection of a studio recording with the excitement of Shirley, her choir and band, and an on-fire congregation brought together to have serious church. "Recording live gives me freedom," says Shirley. "I don't have to stand in a studio behind a microphone. I ...

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