Mississippi Mass Choir, When I Rose This Morning | Music Lifts 🎶 🏋

In the 28^th edition of Music Lifts (2025), we’re uplifted by Mississippi Mass Choir performing  “When I Rose This Morning.”

Welcome to Music Lifts 🎶 🏋, featuring songs that encourage, inspire, and uplift the spirit; songs that exude fortitude, positivity, and resolve, even in the face of adversity.  Featured songs aren’t genre-specific; songs may or may not be faith-based. The goal is for these songs to make you feel better – be LIFTED to new heights!  So, for the 28^th edition of Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 (2025), we highlight “When I Rose This Morning” as performed by Mississippi Mass Choir.

“This morning when I rose / (I didn’t have no doubt) / I know the Lord (Will take care of me ) / I know the Lord (Will provide for me) / I know He will (Lead and guide me all the way, yes, all the way).” What a testament of faith! One song that the anointed Mississippi Mass Choir is renowned for is “When I Rose This Morning” (sometimes listed as “This Morning When I Rose”). “Morning” is the seventh track on the choir’s 1996 album, I’ll See You In The Rapture. Notably, the late, great Mosie Burks (1933 – 2025) leads this gospel classic.

The call and response is call and response-ing on “When I Rose This Morning.” Mother Mosie Burks is chock-full of the spirit, PERIOD. She delivers an authentic, dynamic, and utterly sincere vocal performance. As she sings the likes of “This morning, I woke up to a brand new day,” her faith is perceptible without a doubt.  The choir is on fire, too.  How could they not be with Mosie elevating the spirit, as well as celebrating and praising the goodness of God? During the vamp, the praise reaches a fever pitch with the likes of “Felt like walking,” “Felt like talking,” “Felt like praying,” “Felt like singing, “Felt like running,” and of course, “Felt like shouting.” Amen! Beyond the superb vocals by all parties, what about that band? Ooh-wee! The rhythm section is locked in, particularly that ill bass line and that ‘make you jump up and shout’ keyboard playing! Do you need a lift? Look no further than “When I Rose This Morning” by the Mississippi Mass Choir.  The song never grows old!