JGM Pick of the Week – September 15, 2025
A week after Bishop Norman Hutchins left this earth, Pastor Markees Williams released his version of Hutchins’s “Nobody But Jesus.”
A week after Bishop Norman Hutchins left this earth, Pastor Markees Williams released his version of Hutchins’s “Nobody But Jesus.”
“Keep On Smiling” Heroy (Independent; release date: June 27, 2025)
The independent single “All In His Hands” has the elements of a radio hit.
“Soul War” Gerren Lavey Independent (release date: July 25, 2025)
“You Are Holy” Kelly Young Hart Independent (release date: July 21, 2025)
“Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” written by Aaliyah Franklin, starts out soft and sweet—almost too softly in the first few seconds—but builds to a robust apex and ends with a traditional-sounding vamp.
Brent Jones and the Best Life Choir’s rafter-raising Praise in the Choir Stand offers Sunday morning gospel chock full of R&B influences.
The USC Upstate Gospel Choir’s single “Already Done” uses Psalm 46:10 (“Be still and know that I am God”) as the foundation for a statement of divine victory.
With Mother’s Day nearing, John P. Kee’s latest solo release, “Mother, I Miss You,” as Pick of the Week is appropriate.
Brent Jones’ latest single, “Praise in the Choir Stand,” is a hand clapper set to a loping tempo where the spotlight is not on the soloist but on the singers moving and grooving in their robes.