JGM Pick of the Week – August 19, 2025
“Keep On Smiling” Heroy (Independent; release date: June 27, 2025)
“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.
Like his 2018 compilation Bible of Love, Snoop Dogg’s new Death Row production, Altar Call, is the genuine article.