This Black Music Month, Tiny Desk celebrates the simple legacy of BET. Just like the community that put Black artistry first, these units replicate the essence of Black music.
Fred Hammond has been a number one architect of recent gospel music, significantly reward and worship, for over 40 years. From his time in teams like Commissioned and United Tenors to main the choir Radical for Christ and sustaining a protracted solo profession, it is simple to see why Hammond’s go to to the Tiny Desk is regularly requested and lengthy overdue.
Followers for each Hammond period will discover moments to sing alongside right here. The latest “Love By no means Fails” is designed to cost up your religion. Hammond takes us again to his Commissioned days with the 1986 observe “Operating Again to You.” His mega-hits “Jesus Be a Fence Round Me” and “No Weapon” are the right one-two punch for anybody needing non secular encouragement towards making an attempt occasions. Once we get to the perennial fan-favorite “We’re Blessed” (with a bit little bit of “Glory to Glory” sprinkled in), Hammond declares: “Tiny is aware of occasion within the Holy Ghost!” If the viewers within the room that day is any indication, you will not need the present to finish both. So simply restart the video and preserve the reward occasion going.
SET LIST
- “Love By no means Fails”
- “Have fun (He Lives)”
- “They That Wait”
- “Operating Again to You”
- “Jesus Be a Fence Round Me”
- “No Weapon”
- “You Are the Residing Phrase”
- “Let the Reward Start”
- “When the Spirit of the Lord”
- “We’re Blessed”
MUSICIANS
- Fred Hammond: vocals
- Asaph Ward: keys
- Phillip Feaster: keys
- Stephen Bruton: keys
- Morgan Turner: keys
- Lacy Comer: drums
- Gary Edwards: background vocals
- Rachael Hammond: background vocals
- BreeAnn Hammond: background vocals
- Marcus McFarlin: background vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Mitra I. Arthur
- Director/Editor: Joshua Bryant
- Audio Director/Combine: Josh Newell
- Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Maia Stern, Kara Body, Alanté Serene
- Audio Engineer: Neil Tevault
- Manufacturing Assistant: Ashley Pointer
- Photographer: Zayrha Rodriguez
- Sequence Editor: Lars Gotrich
- Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Government Director: Sonali Mehta
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton
