Gospel First Nation - CD

• William Prince will release his second season of the Sunday Verse podcast shortly following the album’s release
• Official Music Video for “Gospel First Nation” to be released shortly after the album launch. The video was shot in Fisher Bay, Manitoba and in the Prince Memorial Chapel
• 3 out of the 10 tracks are originals, one is a cover by his late father, Edward Prince, and the remaining 6 songs are covers

Excerpt from William Prince’s Artist Statement

Gospel First Nation is 21st Century Northern-Interlake-Country-Gospel. Interlake is the name given to a region in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It lies roughly between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba and comprises 14 rural municipalities.

The ten-track album includes some of the first gospel songs I ever learned to sing, three original gospel compositions and an original song written by my dad. My dad was a preacher who made three albums over the course of his life. Gospel songs always occupied the airwaves in our homes along the great singers he and my mom admired. He was as much in service of Jesus as he was Johnny Cash and Charley Pride.

My musical aspirations began with accompanying my dad on guitar as he preached and sang throughout different First Nations communities in Northern Manitoba. First Nations are the predominant Indigenous peoples in Canada south of the Arctic Circle. The first inhabitants of Canada.

These are country gospel songs as found in places like Peguis First Nation, Fisher River Cree Nation, Jackhead, Fisher Bay, Little Saskatchewan, Fairford, Thompson, and the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Manitoba. Reserves and communities with primarily First Nations residents. Places my dad would bring our family sharing his testimony and song. All of these places are Gospel First Nation.

Track List:

1. Gospel First Nation
2. Higher Power
3. When He Cometh
4. All His Children
5. When Jesus Needs An Angel
6. Just a Closer Walk With Thee
7. Send The Light
8. Does Jesus Care?
9. This One I Know
10. Love Don't Ever Say Goodbye