JGM Pick of the Week – February 20, 2023
“Cover Me” Patrick Lundy & the Ministers of Music feat. LeJuene Thompson From the album Way Maker – 25th Anniversary Live Recording (album release: March 4, 2021)
“Cover Me” Patrick Lundy & the Ministers of Music feat. LeJuene Thompson From the album Way Maker – 25th Anniversary Live Recording (album release: March 4, 2021)
“I Wanna Say Thank You” James Grear & Company feat. Maurette Brown Clark Blacksmoke Music Worldwide (release date: October 7, 2022)
The Kergyma Community Choir’s “It Is Well” is inspired by and has the same message, but is not the same piece as, the classic nineteenth-century hymn that begins, “When peace like a river…”
The muscular-voiced Hurd who leads the call-and-response with the background vocalists on this rhythmically undulating song of praise.
“He Brought Me Out” Quinten Simon Independent (release date: January 20, 2023)
“Speak to the Mountain” Angela Moss Poole 141st Lane Music/DarkChild Gospel (2022)
The Gift and the Calling 3 is the finale of Christian hip hop artist Jarred AllStar’s The Gift and the Calling Series, which began in 2020.
“One Step Closer” DiVine of Annapolis From the CD One Step Closer (release date: September 20, 2022)
Chicago-based gospel music collector Marc Davis collaborated with Sadar Bahar and recording engineer Tone B. Nimble to inject a disco beat into the Fountain of Life Joy Choir’s “I’m So Happy.”
On her latest solo album, Hold It All Together, Destiny Adia Andrews, known as Adia, sings in a tranquil, conspiratorial voice, as if holding a prayer meeting with a few friends in a tiny room with the lights out and candles burning.