“Work It Out”
Evelyn Turrentine-Agee
From the CD, There’s Gonna Be A Meeting (2010)
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She’s called the “Queen of Quartet.” There’s a good reason for that–actually there are several. Her smash hit “God Did It” is just one. Her current foot-stomper “Work It Out” is another.
Turrentine-Agee just knows what to do with a quartet groove. You won’t catch her over-singing and you won’t find her doling out random phrases just to fill up a run and shout an audience. She doesn’t utilize showy stage antics. She just ministers with conviction, out of her own experiences with her personal testimonies: “My children needed shoes/My home was in a mess/God worked for me…”
“Work It Out” is everything quartet: hand claps, toe taps, a rhythmic lead guitar (Alton Hollis), call and response, and a run that will move the hatted church mothers into the aisles in a holy dance.
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