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enlightment - faith is the key - nature sounds - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Funk / Soul

1. Faith Is The Key
2. Burning Flame
3. Jesus Will Always Be There
4. Up And Away
5. Whats Happening People
6. Going Home
7. Jesus Is Walking By
8. I Got To Get Away
9. Him Thats On Top Of The World

After more than three decades as a lost classic, the debut album by Washington DC soul/gospel outfit Enlightment is finally receiving a proper release.

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Founded by ordained bishop Larry H. Jordan and
his brother-in-law Frank Tinsley in the early 1980s, Enlightment was among the first groups to fuse modern R&B production with gospel themes. Unfortunately, the independent release of their 1984 debut album Faith Is The Key was torpedoed when both their distributor and pressing plant went out of business. �We knew we were getting airplay across the country, but we couldn�t get the product in the
stores at the time�, explains Tinsley of the missed opportunity. Only a handful of Faith Is the Key LPs ever made it into the public�s hands.