JESUS IS JUST ALRIGHT (DC Talk)
“Jesus Is Just Alright” is a gospel song written by Arthur Reid Reynolds and first recorded by Reynolds’ own group, The Art Reynolds Singers, on their 1966 album, Tellin’ It Like It Is. “Jesus Is Just Alright” is a Dove Award-winning single by Christian rock and hip hop band, DC Talk. It was the lead single for their 1992 platinum-selling and Grammy Award-winning album, Free at Last. The band’s primary songwriter, TobyMac (Toby McKeehan), retained the song’s chorus but added a number of new verses consisting of his own lyrics. These lyrics were rapped, as was usual with DC Talk’s songs of the period. DC Talk’s version also includes subtle lyric alterations, with the line “Jesus is just alright” being intermittently changed to “Jesus is still alright”. (More from Wikipedia)
I always thought that “Jesus is Just Alright” was their first hit song, but it was actually the third single released by the Doobie Brothers (in late 1972), after “Listen to the Music”. In the CCM world, DC Talk put “Jesus Is Just Alright” on their 1992 album, Free at Last; the early Christian heavy metal band Stryper included “Jesus Is Just Alright” on their 2013 album, No More Hell to Pay.
(July 2014)
