Track Listing

1. 7 Days (Intro)
2. 7 Days
3. Count Your Blessings
4. Taxi (Interlude)
5. Don't Go
6. Heavenly Father
7. Rest
8. I'm the One
9. Heaven Knows
10. So Good to Be in Love
11. Clap Your Hands
12. Through It All
13. Help Somebody
14. Inspiration
15. 7 Days (Outro)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56407 in Music
• Brand: Verity
• Released on: 2006-10-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Customer Reviews

Fresh and Smooth Feeling Gospel
Well, Deitrick is back, which surprised me because I didn't know he was coming out with a new album this year. Not only did he come back with a new album, but came back with a new sound with Tim & Bob helping to produce this fresh and smooth feeling gospel album.

He's definitely not a man that's afraid to come out with a new sound for gospel music, like he said in his song "Count Your Blessings", when he said "trying to bring a new sound to the Gospel game had people hating on him in JESUS name." But he didn't give up and came a long way. I remember when I first heard of him from his album Chain Breaker and that album was definitely something different from what was out at that time. I liked all of his albums that I was aware of and even the Voices of Unity albums. When he got to the album Crossroads it kind of seem liked he had hit his peak with that particular sound that he became associated with. So I'm glad he got a new production team for this album.

If you been listening to his albums, you can tell he been through a lot, but like he said "I don't have to fret cause I know Lord you're with me through it all." Then in his ad-libs near the end of the song, he says "Lord, have mercy JESUS...There's so much going on right now." Which is Who we need to call on when we're going though a lot and believe that He's faithful to know He's with us through it all. He sung those quotes in his song "Through It All" which is a very nice song with Damita Haddon singing background.

My personal favorite song is "Heavenly Father" which is surrendering to God and praying to God to draw him nearer to Him and lighting his pathway as he tries to seek His face every day. It's my favorite because it's a great song of prayer with humility and love to sing to God to draw near to Him to have a close relationship.

Then when we have gotten that close relationship, we can ask God, "help me Lord please, to touch somebody, cause everybody needs to know their loved" which is a quote from Deitrick's song "Help Somebody."

So in my opinion, this is a very good album, as long as I'm not looking for that old Deitrick Haddon sound. I like all the songs, especially when I'm at work and I need some smooth, gospel music. I would write more but I think I said more than enough...

The cover says it all...
With his body language, posture and wardrobe choice for his new album, "7 Days", you can tell Deitrick Haddon is not the same. I thought I was picking up an extremely worshipful and praise-worthy album that would usher me into the presence of God. "7 Days" sounded to me like it would behold the beauty of the earth the LORD created and take in all of His majesty in the everyday.

Wow, what a dissappointment.

Instead of saying "baby, baby" Deitrick substitutes the words "him." Its infuriating. How can you sing to the LORD like you are singing to a woman?! God deserves more respect and reverence.

This album is sad for me, because Deitrick Haddon has such an incentive to reach the young. But by not making your mission plain for all to hear, it becomes confusing, and you cannot honor God in confusion. Just because we are in the world, doesn't mean we have to be like it. I beleive in reaching all people and "becoming all things to all men" but I first believe in keeping a level of respect and honor for the Almighty and to remember that we sing to God first, before we sing to men. I just pray he comes back to the right path and never makes an album like this again.

Do you really want to sing Gospel?
I have all of Deitrick Haddon's CD's and honestly the one I like the most is Lost and Found. I'm not an old school traditional gospel loving person. I like contemporary, traditional and all that. I dont' pigeon hold gospel artists to a specific genre because God can and will be praised through whatever sound is sweet to him, HOWEVER with this CD I just felt like Deitrick really wanted to be an R&B singer. There comes a point where enough is enough and I didn't feel any anointing in this and nothing moved me about it. I like Deitrick as an artist but this CD just wasn't it for me.