Cumberland Presbyterian Revival, a group of contemporary Christian singers and musicians from the Smithville Cumberland Presbyterian Church, has released its first recording called “A New Hallelujah”.
The new release, available on compact disc, features thirteen spirit filled selections with CPR’s own brand of praise and worship sound. From the first notes of “A New Hallelujah” to the last refrain of “You Are Here”, each song is sure to touch a chord with churches and listeners alike.
“This is stuff that we do every Sunday,” said Thea Tippin, a CPR vocalist. ” These are songs that we love and the congregation loves. We’ve had people ask us to do a cd for so long and we have wanted to do one for so many years. We hope this will be successful. We hope it blesses people. That’s the main thing,” she said.
Teresa Trapp, a founding member and vocalist of CPR, said the group had plenty of songs from which to select for the cd. “We all just got together and decided each one would write down five or six of his or her favorite songs that we enjoy singing and bring those to the table and from those, we recorded and then from the recording, we chose which ones to go on the cd. It was a collaboration of everybody in the group,” she said.
“After listening to it, you can just tell that it was just God ordained, ” said Fran Tyson, CPR vocalist and keyboard player. “Every song on there, the Lord chose for us,” she said. “I think my favorite worship song that we have on there just for entering into the presence of the Lord is “Worthy Is the Lamb” and then it moves into “Shout to the Lord”,” she said.
The title, “A New Hallelujah” is the lead off song on the cd and is a personal favorite of most members, partly because it was recorded by members of the children’s choir from the church. “We got the children’s choir together several months ago and did the song live at church one Sunday morning and it was just overwhelming,” said Scott Brown, who performs in the group as a vocalist and on acoustic guitar. ” People liked it and we’ve had a lot of compliments on the song on the cd so far,”he said.
Colton Rhody, lead guitarist, said he prefers the more upbeat songs. “I like the second song on the cd “I Came to Praise the Lord” and there’s a song called “Don’t You Wanna Go” I like. Those are more southern gospel or country type and I get to play a little more on those,” he said.
Other members who make up Cumberland Presbyterian Revival are James Snyder, bass guitarist and vocalist and Ty Linscomb and Hunter Tramel, vocalists. The cd includes a special performance on the song “A New Hallelujah” by vocalists Thomas Tippin, Caven Ponder, Briz Trapp, Cameron Miller, Ted Tippin, Bill Miller, Brittany Pinkard, Allison Rogers, Paige Snyder, Noah Gill, and Nathan Atkins.
You may purchase a copy of the “A New Hallelujah” cd at F.Z. Webb & Sons Gifts, Charlie Max & Company, or Creative Styles in Smithville. You may also buy a copy directly from members of the praise group or at the Smithville Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The cost is $20.00.
Proceeds from the sale of the cd will help support the church building fund. “We have been growing by leaps and bounds at our church and we thank God for that but we’ve been getting a little crowded so there has been talk of starting a building fund and we thought this would be a good way for us to contribute so all the proceeds from this will go back to the church for the building fund,” said Brown.
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