Truth & Devotion - Heaven At Last (2024) Hi-Res

Truth & Devotion were a gospel/soul group from Anderson, IN, who released a solitary album, "Heaven At Last", on Tyscott Records in 1981 and one single from it on Champ Records. Taken from the original masters out of the Tyscot Records vaults & restored for the first time since 1981. The single included a non-album track "To Know Him" along with "I'm So Happy" and sells consistently for around £100 with the original album fetching up to £200 plus.

The album has been reissued digitally and on vinyl in Jan this year by Holy Grail Records prompted by hop-hop producers sampling the title track, which is worth the price of the album on it's own.

It's the Worcester, Massachusetts, based label's second release after reissuing Tomorrow's Wish "On My Mind" album on vinyl last year. "This recording is superb. It demonstrates essentially what the sacred and innermost qualities of man can produce when spiritually and artistically blended and stimulated and inspired by God in the presentation of his Gospel.

Truth & Devotion is able to successfully captivate and enhance the old gospel spirit and convincingly embellish it with an appropriate upbeat that springs forth like fresh water from a mountain crevice fed by melting snow. The words belong to the old experiences, but the demands of the old are creatively pitched to miraculously meet the needs of present day urgencies in the form of pop music"

The group was led by Dewayne Johnson (keys / vocals) and included Bobby Simonds (guitar & vocals), James L. Dixon (drums), Edgar M. "Mickey" Woodall, Bill Miller (vocals), John L. Hester (bass and narration on "Heaven At Last"), Garland L. Simmons (percussion) and Horace Brooks (guitar).