The opening cut, "He's Never Failed Me Yet," is a grand, '60s-sounding ballad complete with lilting vocals, sweeping orchestral flourishes and a glorious wall of sound aesthetic upon which legendary producer Phil Spector, himself, would certainly have placed his stamp of approval. Reaching back to the early '50s and traversing all points between that time and roughly the mid-'80s, her latest outing covers a slice of time that begins and ends prior to the release of her first record, and, as such, manages to succumb to neither of the drawbacks mentioned above. To her credit, CeCe Winans, whose debut album with her brother, BeBe, hit the shelves just around the time Ronald Reagan was beginning his second term in the Oval Office, has circumvented this proverbial fork in the road brilliantly with her most recent project, Let Them Fall in Love. Those who maintain the course and adhere faithfully to the sound that first brought them to prominence, on the other hand, are frequently labeled as anachronistic acts hopelessly out of touch with the here and now. Those who try to adapt and keep their sound contemporary are often accused of trend-following or bandwagon-jumping. There exists a particular kind of quandary for established artists once they have stayed in their chosen field of endeavor long enough that they eventually find themselves making music alongside those who were children when they began.
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