Brian Free & Assurance

Brian Free & Assurance

It’s So God
Daywind Records

“It’s So God” is the latest studio recording from Brian Free & Assurance — one of southern gospel’s most popular quartets. “Greater Still” was the group’s last studio offering — and an album that many were calling Brian Free & Assurance’s finest project to date. The group released “Live in New York City” last year, spawning the No. 1 hit “Long As I Got King Jesus.”

This new release finds the popular group building on the successes of both albums — taking the slight progressive edge from “Greater Still” and incorporating the live black gospel feel of “Long As I Got King Jesus” on several cuts.

It’s not all ballads, big band numbers and gospel-inspired tracks on “It’s So God.” The album proves that Brian Free & Assurance remains one of the most diverse groups on the scene.

Featuring songwriting talent from the likes of Marty Funderburk, Kyla  Rowland, Joel Lindsey, Wayne Haun, Tony Wood, Kenna Turner West, Twila McBride-LaBar, Dave Clark and more, “It’s So God,” lyrically, far surpasses most of today’s recordings. Couple that with some of the best production work ever from the hand of Haun and you have a real winner. “It’s So God” is by far Brian Free & Assurance’s strongest record to date and arguably the best album to be released in years in the southern gospel market.

(Reviewed by Chris D. Unthank)