Reviewed by Tony Cummings

Songbooks of praise and worship aren't exactly thin on the ground but you're unlikely to find a more revolutionary one than this. Not that the revolution is in the music. Most of the 36 songs you get words and music for here run down tried-and-tested paths - simple melodies, lyrics that are usual Scripture paraphrases and nothing too deep or clever. Rather, it's in the means of getting this book into the hands of worshippers where the revolution occurs. Singer, songwriter and entrepreneurial iconoclast Roland Johnson Bell continues his one man campaign against the money-changers in the temple by producing these songs - written by Johnson Bell himself and a variety of talented, mainly Midlands-based composers - copyright free (please photocopy this book) and with a radical pay-what-you-can-afford system which seems to make no commercial sense considering the good quality printing (full colour laminated cover) but which God honours. If you want to bring some fresh new praise and worship choruses into your church - and cock a snoop at the Praise & Worship Megabuck Corporations - why not send Roly some money.

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