''So Cool'' is a gospel music album by the
American
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contemporary
gospel music group
Take 6
Take 6 is an American a cappella gospel sextet formed in 1980 on the campus of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. The group integrates jazz with spiritual and inspirational lyrics. Take 6 has received several Grammy Awards as well as Dove ...
, released on October 27, 1998, on
Reprise Records.
It peaked at #24 on the ''Billboard'' charts. It was nominated for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album at the
42nd Annual Grammy Awards
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.
Critical reception
The ''
Chicago Tribune
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'' praised the album, writing: "''So Cool'' may be intimate and celebratory, but it isn't soft; the album comes across as fun, accomplished and smooth, without drifting into the emotionally vacant world of smooth jazz."
Track listing
#"Intro (A Cappella Is Cool)"
#"So Cool"
#"Sonshine"
#"If You Only Knew"
#"Wings of Your Prayer"
#"Fly Away"
#"You'll Be Waiting for Me"
#"Nothin' but Love"
#"Evermore"
#"Soundcheck # 694 (London)"
#"Everybody Ought to Know"
#"A'-Ca-Lud" *
#"Love and Harmony"
#"A Few More Miles"
* an a cappella bridge two articles of funk
References
Take 6 albums
1998 albums
Albums produced by Jim Ed Norman
Reprise Records albums
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