New Music Review of Gateway Worship’s, “I Need You”

With a passion for people and all things musical, Randy…

Expressing the complete necessity of being reliant on God is the song, “I Need You” by Gateway Worship, featuring Worship Leader Jesse Harris. Harris and the Gateway Worship team build on a rich history of worship music that expresses the dependence on One who is greater that is at the core of humanity. “I Need You” rises and falls in its dynamics as it begins as a solemn prayer and builds up to an eruption of anthemic praise and then as it fades during the bridge, falls again to contemplative meditation much like the tides of the oceans. This cascading movement of the song accompanies the lyric and is accentuated by its 6/8 time signature, a trend that is being seen repeatedly in modern worship music.

This is a song should easily fit into your worship time rotation and will be embraced by your worshipers as they not only sing the song but feel it.

Beautifully written. Wonderful rise and falls. Vertical worship.

Less:

This “I Need You” uses a prayerful ending that is certainly timely and provides the opportunity for spontaneous response, however, it could use with some trimming along the way during a chorus and the bridge to make it a bit more user friendly.

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Randy Cross

With a passion for people and all things musical, Randy joined Trinity’s staff in September 2002. He and his wife Tammy have been married since 1986. Their family includes 3 daughters, 1 son, 3 grandsons, and 1 granddaughter. “Worship as a lifestyle” is the driving philosophy to Randy’s ministry at Trinity. He serves as support personnel in the multigenerational ministries of Trinity in an effort to show others that “worship” involves more than just the musical aspects that are so many oftentimes associated with the word. He is a member of the Arkansas Master’Singers, where he sings tenor and plays french horn. Randy also plays french horn and trumpet in the ASU-Beebe, Symphonic band. He can be seen on his Youtube channel Cross & Kin and is the author of the weekly blog Tuesday’s Musical Notes.