The majority of the songs on the13-track, "Medicine - Live At The Black Academy of Arts and Letters", were written or co-written by Sam Shake Anderson - a bassist who has toured with the likes of Ray Charles, Curtis Mayfield and Bruce Hornsby. It was recorded live before an ecstatic, diverse and capacity-crowd at The Black Academy. Backed by the 80-voice Black Academy Choir, the album is not a typical gospel set. On it, the songs range from a brash critique of parasite preachers on PTYHOMP (Please Take Your Hands Out My Pocket) to the bloody waters of the Atlantic Slave Trade on Jasmine Guy s spoken word recitation of Curtis King s My Language poem. Ann Nesby (former lead singer for The Sounds of Blackness) wraps her big voice around the poignant anthem, What Would You Have Me Do? Yarbrough & Peoples, best known for their 1981 #1 R&B smash Don t Stop The Music, deliver the funk on the percolating street jam, Jump Til You Feel Something. Tommie Young West, who recorded classic R&B sides for Louisiana s Soul Power label in the early `70s, rocks the house on the pulsating Won t Have To Worry while Brenda Ellis full alto pulverizes Bask (In The Presence of the Lord). All and all, an inspiring set of old school soul-styled gospel songs.