''Free to Worship'' is the ninth album from contemporary gospel singer

Fred Hammond Frederick William Hammond (born December 27, 1960) is an American gospel singer, bass guitar player, and record producer. He is regarded as one of the most popular figures in contemporary gospel music. He is known for using a variety of differ ...

. The album was recorded on April 14, 2006, and released on October 31, 2006 through

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Track listing

# "My Heart Is for You" (Fred Hammond, Rodrick Long) - 5:04 # "He'll Do It!" (Hammond, Jason Jordan) - 5:33 # "Lord Your Grace" (Derek "DC" Clark, Hammond) - 5:32 # "This Is the Day" (Everett Jr. Williams) - 4:49 # "More of You" (PamKenyon M. Donald, Hammond, Jerome Harmon, Ericka Warren, Caltomeesh "Candy" West) - 5:05 # "Every Time I Think" (Patrick Dopson, Hammond, Bobby Sparks) - 5:11 # "Keep on Praisin'" (Donald, Hammond, Sparks, Warren, West) - 5:57 # "No Greater Love" (Noel Hall, Hammond, Kim Rutherford) - 6:11 # "L.O.U.D. L.O.U.D." (Hammond) - 6:00 # "There Is No Place" (Warren Campbell, Hammond) - 3:19 # "Thank You (I Won't Complain)" (Donald, Hammond, Shelton Summons, Warren) - 6:15 # "Simply Put" (Hammond, Hallerin Hilton Hill) - 6:38 # "And We Worship You" (Hammond, Long) - 5:11

Credits

Producer: *

Executive Producers: *

* Max Siegel Arrangers: * Calvin Rodgers - Arranger *

- Arranger, Horn Arrangements, Vocal Arrangements Worship Leader: *

Musicians: * Jason "JT" Thomas-Drums * Calvin Rodgers –

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, Music Director * Shelton Summons –

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* Steve Goldsmith - Keyboards * Kermit Wells - Keyboards * Darius Fentress -

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, Drum Programming * Darryl Dixon -

Guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

* Steve Lewis III -

Flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

, Keyboards, Strings * Jerome Harmon - Keyboards * Shaun Martin -

* Maxx Frank -

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* Warryn Campbell -

Piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

* Todd Parsnow –

* Jason Jordan – Keyboards * Tim Pitchford –

Trombone The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the Standing wave, air c ...

* Matt Cappy –

Trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

* Charles Laster, Jr. - Keyboards *

–

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, Strings, Drum Programming, Keyboards * Bobby Sparks -

, Keyboards, Moog

Synthesizer A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis a ...

* Rodrick Long -

, Keyboards, Vocals: * Davey Hammond * Tillunda Lawson * Michael Bethany * Lisa Robinson * Frank Lawson * Nakisha Bethany * Dynna Wilson Wells * Adrian Smith * Kari Wilson * Ericka Warren * Pamkenyon Donald * Candy West * Candace Laster Jones * Charles Laster, Jr. Engineers * Chris Athens - Mastering * Darius Fentress - Assistant Engineer * Steve Lewis III - Engineer * Fred Hammond - Engineer, Mixing, * Ray Hammond - Engineer, Mixing, Mixing Engineer, Sound Reinforcement, Sound Technician * John Jaszcz - Engineer * Timothy Powell - Engineer * Chris Godbey - Engineer * Kevin Wilson - Audio Engineer

Awards

At the 38th GMA Dove Awards, ''Free to Worship'' was nominated for a

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for Contemporary Gospel Album of the Year.

Chart performance

The album peaked at #1 on ''

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s Christian and Gospel Albums charts. It spent 46 weeks on the latter Free to Worshipon Billboard

References

External links

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