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From their name alone, Rev. Thomas L. Walker & Totally Committed sounds like what I call an “&” group: a leader-small choir ensemble that specializes in P&W and contemporary gospel.
In actuality, the group is a quartet, and one that may have spent more than a smidgen of time soaking up the Southern quartet scene. Several of the songs on their album, Keep Me In Your Will, and most especially the title track, have a distinctly country flavor.
“Keep Me In Your Will” is a slow ballad with a churchy catchphrase for a chorus: “Keep me in your will / So I won’t be in your way.” “It’s Already Mine,” a lyric variation on the “It’s already done” theme, has an equally languorous, country feel.
Rev. Thomas L. Walker is well positioned geographically to have been influenced by Southern and gospel quartets. Since 1970, he has served as pastor of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church in his hometown of Rocky Mount, North Carolina. His claim to music fame is a cover of the Cristy Lane classic, “One Day at a Time,” which he performed back in the day with the T.L.W. Ensemble. It went gold. The group repeats the big hit on Keep Me In Your Will, giving it an island rhythm—it works, surprisingly—and embellishing the “it’s worse now than then” verse with contemporary references to illegal drug sales and murder.
“Jesus Brought Me” is the album’s highlight. Led by Walker and Johnny Ruffin, the song has a driving beat and a fine antiphonal interplay between lead and quartet. During the extended vamp, Walker shares that Jesus delivered him from the “Big C.” ‘Let me tell you, I had cancer in me,” he sings, “but he brought me.” A video of the group singing the song is available below.
Keep Me In Your Way benefits from able production by Ray Braswell Jr., who gives quartets the professional touch they deserve and their listeners favor.
