We don't know when this album was recorded, but it's hard not to hear it as something of a counter-call to the current White House ethos. It opens with a snatch of John Lennon's ‘Imagine’ and Sam Cooke's ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ precedes the DeFrancesco-composed, soul-jazz meets Bach closer, ‘Stand Up’. In between, the title track quotes from ‘Let My People Go’ and the traditional ‘Lift Every Voice And Sing’ is surrounded by more originals with titles that include ‘The Unifier’, ‘Better Than Yesterday’, ‘Peace Bridge’ and ‘Karma’. The album – and especially that panoply of Hammond sounds – bursts with the life-force that is Joey DeFrancesco. He is a big man with a personality to match and musical talent that could fill a cathedral – which is what it feels like it fills here. His band rises to the challenges he throws them and is rewarded with a big bearhug of wrapped around B-3 warmth in return. So, ‘The Unifier’ has some funky inter-related tenor and organ, erupts into a Brown solo and then opens out with Wilson taking a lead; ‘Better Than Yesterday’ lowers the lights and eases the pace, Roberts' gospel tenor lifted to hallelujah heights on the waves of organ and drums, while ‘One’ features the leader ‘tripling’ on muted trumpet, electric piano and organ. A testifying album of high order which must rank right up there in DeFrancesco's discography of over 30 albums.