"Still Standing" - Rev. Stefanie Minatee & Jubilation

“Still Standing”

Rev. Stefanie Minatee & Jubilation

http://www.jubilationinc.com/

Available on iTunes

Fresh from their collaboration with Queen Latifah on the title track of EMI’s Grammy Award-winning compilation Oh Happy Day, Rev. Stefanie Minatee & Jubilation have released a new single. It’s a bluesy version of A. Jeffrey LaValley’s “Still Standing,” complete with that old style “rocking chair” tempo I refer to as the gospel waltz.

Minatee opens by quoting, with an evangelist’s declamation, Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians 4:8. Referencing her own testimony (“I should have been dead a long time ago”), Minatee joins Jubilation in encouraging those “who have been cast down…persecuted…trouble on every side” to push on, because “you are not forsaken.”

The ensemble's message of optimism and persistence is just as cogent today as it was in Paul’s time. As the saying goes, the more things change, the more they stay the same.