{"id":7466,"date":"2026-01-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=7466"},"modified":"2026-01-04T07:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:10:15","slug":"track-of-the-day-total-praise-richard-smallwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/04\/track-of-the-day-total-praise-richard-smallwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Track Of The Day: &#8220;Total Praise&#8221; &#8211; Richard Smallwood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"807\" height=\"796\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1843.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1843.jpg 807w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1843-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1843-768x758.jpg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1843-61x60.jpg 61w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 807px) 100vw, 807px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/odesli.co\/embed\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsong.link%2Fs%2F3eGrTHQnpSE0LRrNrMxMRr&#038;theme=light\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>We lost a gospel music giant Richard Smallwood on on 30th December 2025. I first came across this track in the early 2000s when I joined a choir called Many Rivers, through a chance encounter with someone I met while working in King&#8217;s Road. I joined as a singer not a keyboard player so I could learn how to harmonise, it was great fun, anyway, this is one of the songs that we learned together &#8211; and for me I&#8217;d never sung anything so complex, the harmonies swapping over each other it just blew my mind. There were 12 of us, and the sound that came out just blew my mind, I thought you needed a larger choir for this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;amen&#8221; part &#8211; hold on to your seat for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You have been warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We lost a gospel music giant Richard Smallwood on on 30th December 2025. I first came across this track in the early 2000s when I joined a choir called Many Rivers, through a chance encounter with someone I met while working in King&#8217;s Road. I joined as a singer not a keyboard player so I &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,118,129,294,31,132,30,37,150,175,287,243,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-band","category-bass","category-drums","category-gospel-music","category-keyboards","category-lyricist","category-music","category-piano","category-songwriter","category-soul","category-track-of-the-day","category-u-s","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7468,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions\/7468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}