Experience Perfect Love - Live Worship (CD)

Songs/Tracks (and media samples)

1.
His Banner Over Me
2.
You Know My Name
3.
Perfect Love
4.
A Loving God
5.
A Closer Walk With Thee
6.
God Of Mine
7.
You Keep On Givin' To Me
8.
I Love Your Ways
9.
Give Me Jesus
10.
Shine Our Way (studio version)
11.
You Know My Name (studio version)

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Product Code: MOD8184
UPC/EAN: 074948818423
Ship Weight: 0.3 lbs

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Metro One Music
Experience, Chris Lizotte

This exciting new release was recorded live from the Summer In The Son youth conference in Kentucky 1998. It features renowned worship leader and songwriter Chris Lizotte. Chris is known for leading worship for such events as Ohio Teens for Christ, Indiana Teens for Christ, The National Youth Leaders Convention, Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade as well as many other events across the Nation and Europe. Chris also leads a band for Maranatha Music! called the Late, Late Service. He has written songs for Maranatha Music!, Vineyard Music and Crystal Lewis. This release will surely be a must have for those who have experienced an event with this band and a great surprise for those who haven't. There will be guitar chords over the lyrics and the CD will be enhanced with the entire Bible as well as artist screen saver and a music video.

Review

So, what is EXP? To put it plainly, it's a live recording of a youth worship event featuring Chris Lizotte and Sleepy Ray doing mostly original worship songs that go to eleven. Even the few covers here, 'His Banner Over Me', 'God Of Mine', and 'Give Me Jesus' are straight-out screaming blues-rock in the vein of Stevie Ray Vaughn and Kenny Wayne Sheppard. Still, this recording is anything but derivative or carbon-copied when it comes to documenting an authentic voice of worship for the next generation.

Being a live recording, you can feel the effect that this worship has on it's young audience. Lizotte's quiet songs of reflection, such as 'I Love Your Ways' and 'You Know My Name' are easily as powerful and dynamic as the album's more explosive numbers like 'You Keep On Givin' To Me' and 'God Of Mine'. One of the CD's brightest moments is when Lizotte sings

'You gave me freedom
You gave me peace,
You gave me everything this man could ever need
I don't deserve it, Lord you know I don't
Still I'm walkin' and talkin' and singin' and laughin'
and lovin' and livin' and You keep on givin' to me'

in what can only be described as an all-out blues-rock-worship frenzy of total surrender to God that, thanks to Lizotte's ragged voice, sends chills of grace and release up any sinner's spine.

Why Lizotte's name is absent from the packaging is beyond me. His voice has graced recent worship records from Maranatha's Praise 10 and Dry Bones Dancing to his own 'One Voice' worship series published by Metro One. In addition, his band includes the phenomenal guitarist 'Sleepy Ray' (Raymond MacDonald) who released two solid solo records in the mid-90's on Vineyard's New Breed label and played on the first few of Lizotte's early solo efforts.

Without a doubt, the expanding 'Youth Worship' genre is getting a little crowded lately, and the discerning worshipper may have a hard time finding those pearls buried in the growing fields of fluff and ego. EXP is a refreshing change of pace that, sadly, may go mostly unnoticed due to it's curious packaging and perplexing cover art. But those who dig deep enough will find a truly powerful worship recording that manages to not only break the current mold, but set a few new standards of its own along the way.

Reviewed by Keith Giles

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Song List: His Banner Over Me, You Know My Name, Perfect Love, A Loving God, A Closer Walk With Thee, God Of Mine, You Keep On Givin' To Me, I Love Your Ways, Give Me Jesus, Shine Our Way (studio version), You Know My Name (studio version)

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