Ricky Dillard, He’s My Roof Top | Terrific Tuesday 💎

Ricky Dillard rings in Terrific Tuesday with some Sunday flair with an amazing Mighty Clouds of Joy cover, “He’s My Roof Top.”

After taking a “L” on Monday, Terrific Tuesday seems to be an ideal, perfect way to rebound.

Go on and “Brush the dirt off your shoulders” and absolutely kill it on Tuesday.  How are we going to kill it this particular Tuesday, May 19, 2020? Well, Ricky Dillard is gonna take you to church this Terrific Tuesday with “He’s My Roof Top” from his superb live gospel album,  Choirmaster.

“He’s My Roof Top,” the fifth song on Choirmaster, isn’t brand-new. No, it’s actually an enhanced cover of a The Mighty Clouds of Joy staple, “He’s My Rooftop”, from the 1983 album, Sing and Shout.  The Mighty Clouds of Joy version was funky in its own right – a progressive sound for contemporary black gospel music at the time. On this awesome take by Dillard, he enlists the awesome Keith Wonderboy Johnson for the vocal assist.   

Where the original clocked in at five minutes, Ricky Dillard and company go eight-and-a-half minutes and man, oh, man, is it energetic, funky, and high-flying to the nth degree.  Characterizing it as spirited is an understatement – it’s that potent.  Lyrically, the themes are familiar and idiomatic of black gospel: God is my all, and “I’m gonna serve him.” Again, regardless whether you are particularly pious or not religious at all, it’s hard to deny the power of this song, not to mention the rooftop metaphor (“For he’s my rooftop in the rage of the storm / He’s my protector, There will never be no harm”).  Definitely a way to lift the spirit on Terrific Tuesday.

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Ricky Dillard • Choirmaster • Motown Gospel • 2020

Ricky Dillard, “He’s My Roof Top” | Terrific Tuesday 💎 [Photo Credits: AnnaliseArt, Brent Faulkner, Motown Gospel, The Musical Hype, OpenClipart-Vectors, Pixabay, Robin Higgins, taniarose]

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