FAITH IS THE KEY by ENLIGHTMENT

After more than three decades as a lost classic, the debut album by Washington DC soul/gospel outfit Enlightment is finally receiving a proper release.Founded by ordained bishop Larry H. Jordan and his brother-in-law Frank Tinsley in the early 1980s, Enlightment was among the first groups to fuse modern R&B production with gospel themes. Unfortunately, the independent release of their 1984 debut album Faith Is The Key was torpedoed when both their distributor and pressing plant went out of business. �We knew we were getting airplay across the country, but we couldn�t get the product in the stores at the time�, explains Tinsley of the missed opportunity. Only a handful of Faith Is the Key LPs ever made it into the public�s hands.