Day 443 - Crystal Lewis - My Redeemer Lives

443. Crystal Lewis - My Redeemer Lives
from the Album The Bride
(Metro 1, 1993)

"Though it would be three more years before Crystal Lewis became one of the biggest names in CCM with her best-selling Beauty For Ashes album, it was in 1993 with the release of The Bride that Lewis achieved her artistic triumph. Following the very cool and funky Remember, The Bride was a genre shifting work of artistic merit that expanded Lewis’ musical palette and vocal prowess.

The musicians on the album read like a who’s who and their playing is true and authentic: Abraham Laboriel, Shawn Tubbs, Dave Spurr, John Knox and John Andrew Schreiner.

The production was more stark and 'band' sounding than any in her career and this live band feel created a vocal urgency and attitude that some earlier releases may have lacked. This is not the same Lewis who simply sang Bill Baumgart porcelain produced pop songs. This was a confident and forceful woman with something to say.
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The centerpiece of the album is the tremendous My Redeemer Lives. This worship song shows Lewis’ vocal powers more than just about any other in her career. Lewis holds her own against backing vocal crew that included Alfie Silas, Debbie McClendon and Linda McCrary that accompanies her and leads to several spine tingling moments.
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Many fans that discovered her with Beauty for Ashes have little appreciation for this album. It is much more raw and edgy and nothing like the soft AC artists that sold hundreds of thousands of copies. But for those that watched her progress as an artist from Hi Tops through Beyond the Charade, The Bride marks a step toward maturity and artistic confidence that is unmatched on any other release." (Source: CCM's Greatest Albums)

Here is the original album version of the song: