Bringing It All Together

1	Shake Yourself Loose 4:47
2	Superman 4:25
3	Shook - Rated "E" for Everybody 3:18
4	We Need a Word from the Lord 4:32
5	Happy and You Know It 5:21
6	Know God 4:21
7	Hasta la Vista 4:31
8	I Promise 3:59
9	Amazing Grace Dance / Aaron Fuller 5:45
10	Kids Love Jesus Too 4:35
11	Jesus 5:29
12	Where You Are (A Child's Prayer) 3:11
13	Shake Yourself Loose Mario "Yellowman" Winans Remix 4:51
14	Shook - Rated "FSJ" for Family Slow Jam 3:30
15	Know God Remix 4:31
16	Shook - Rated "K" for Kids 3:19
17	Jesus Stadium Mix 4:05

Barnes & Noble

From the rocking grooves of opening track "Shake Yourself Loose" to the hip-hop-inflected "Shook" to the classic worship song "We Need a Word from the Lord" to the Latin "Hasta la Vista," Vickie Winans shows she can "bring together" a diversity of musical styles. Rather than creating a musical mishmash, Winans and her fellow producers -- most of whom are family members -- serve a lively and satisfying musical buffet. Not merely content to show her stylistic range, Winans tackles a variety of subjects on Bringing It All Together, some lightweight (a revved-up version of the children's nursery rhyme "Happy and You Know It") and some more topical (an exhortation for abstinence called "I Promise"). All in all, this 17-track release is designed for the whole family, and in that regard, it delivers mightily. Lisa Zhito

All Music Guide

Vickie Winans has been making first-rate gospel records for almost 20 years. On Bringing It All Together, her voice is as strong as ever, clear as a bell, and full of soul and grit. The lyrical content of the album is all gospel-based and Winans sounds emotionally involved and quite convincing. Where the album stumbles is in the production. The album was mostly produced by Vickie and members of the Winans family (Marvin L. Winans Jr. and Michael Winans) and it swings wildly from Timbaland-styled rhythmic ballads like "For Everybody" to Latin jams like "Hasta la Vista" to adult contemporary ballads like "I Promise" to embarrassing dance tracks like "Amazing Grace Dance" and "Superman." When they try so hard to sound modern, they sound instantly dated. It is too bad they took such a classic gospel voice and dressed it up in cheap modern clothes. The record also features five remixes of tracks from the album, none of which are particularly exciting or even that different from the album versions. If you are a longtime fan of Vickie Winans, no doubt you will want to pick this disc up just to hear her wonderful voice and will most likely be able to forgive the clunky production. Tim Sendra