Jesus Be a Fence

Today’s Song of the Day is an updated version of an old James Cleveland classic, “Jesus Be a Fence (All Around Me Everyday Day)”. This version is by Fred Hammond and his group “Radical for Christ”.

  1. Jesus Be a Fence Fred Hammond 7:31

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and if you want MORE, here is a great YouTube video of Fred performing the song live.

Fred Hammond has been one of the movers and shakers on the contemporary gospel scene; here is part of his bio from Wikipedia:

Hammond revealed that his mother confessed to him three months before she died that she had attempted to have him aborted. The procedure, done in 1960, before abortions were legal, failed. Hammond’s mother returned for a second attempt but decided against the procedure; Hammond was later born in December 1960.

Fred Hammond is a multiple Grammy-, Dove-, Stellar-award winner and nominee as a performer, producer and writer. Hammond first gained recognition while playing bass guitar for the gospel group The Winans back in the 1970’s. (You can tell he’s a dyed in the wool bass player because when he sings lead with Radical for Christ he can’t help but play the “air bass guitar” while he’ singing. RLS.)

By 1985 he was one of the six original members of the group Commissioned, participating in 10 of the group’s 12 albums. After his time with Commissioned ended, he regained fame in the gospel community after selling millions of albums with his musical group Radical For Christ.

In 2002 Hammond returned to the group Commissioned (now with members Keith Staten, Marvin Sapp, Mitchell Jones, Karl Reid, Michael Williams, and Marcus Cole) to produce the Commissioned Reunion Live album. Hammond produced Make Me Like The Moon, a stirring gospel ballad co-written by Chanté Moore and Kenny Lattimore for their 2006 double-CD of gospel and R&B love songs entitled Uncovered/Covered (released October 10, 2006 by LaFace/Verity/Zomba Music Group). He also performs with Sean Combs on the album Thank You.

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