Get In, I'm Driving by Ginny Owens
Reviewed by Adrian B.
Martinez
"My suggestion to everyone is to simply turn over your keys to “Get In, I’m Driving” and let Ginny take you on a drive you will not soon forget."
With Get
In, I’m Driving Ginny Owens is announcing she
is back, and back with a furor. If you have the fortitude to as she says
in the first cut “Get In”, you will not be disappointed.
This 11-track set released on her new label partner, Soul Stride Records
(part of EMI Gospel Distribution) is a mix of Blues, Pop and the lush Piano
ballads that brought Ginny’s voice to our ears over a decade ago.
From the sultry piano ballads to the bluesy title track, this set is a reminder
of Ginny’s vocal delivery. Stripping down the Stevie Wonder classic “Higher
Ground” to just her voice and her piano, POWERFUL. It doesn’t
get any better than “Rain”, “Joined At The Heart”,
or “The Song”….OK, I’m a sucker for the ballad. “We
are humbled to be part of a greater story written by the author of miracles
and stars….” She sings in “Joined At The Heart”….” As
this journey unfolds, there is one thing that we know – God has made
it so we are joined at the heart”.
Describing the experience of creating this CD, Ginny says “…I’ve
just finished my first experience driving a CD project, incorporating my
favorite musical styles in a diverse array of songs…. I joke about
driving a car and try my hand at “driving” my music, but there
is no question who is driving my life. No matter how much I fight for the
wheel, He continues to show me that my journey is not for me to drive—instead
I look to Him to lead and hang on for the ride.”
My suggestion to everyone is to simply turn over your keys to “Get
In, I’m Driving” and let Ginny take you on a drive you will not
soon forget.
Adrian B. Martinez: "Music and Movies, Movies and Music, always the twain
shall meet" is Adrian B. Martinez's motto; a displaced New Yorker living
in Connecticut. A complete Movie nut, Adrian was responsible for writing movie
synopsis' for Loews Movie Theater's for over 5 years. At any given time that
would be a synopsis for over 25 movies in one week. Whew! Nowadays, she is a
regular in the Press area for the Creation Festival and Purple Door Festival.
To keep her in the lifestyle she has become accustomed, she does web-design for
DelMonico Hatter in New Haven, Ct. and serves as a Supervisor for the Hartford
Civic Center, also in Ct. An avid traveler, Adrian has been to Europe numerous
times and can be seen criss-crossing the United States in her re-furbished 1974
Orange Volkswagen Vanagon which has allowed her to participate in her favorite
past-time, meeting new people….When she does take the time to stop, she
spends her time with a very handsome man that goes by the name of Zorro. He can
be seen sleeping on the couch, bed, bathing in the sunlight on a window ledge
or anywhere else that he deems comfortable. Zorro of course, is her cat.








