Pick of the Week: January 16, 2025
“Blessings” Yolanda Adams From the Epic Records album Sunny Days (album release date: September 13, 2024)
JGM Pick of the Week: January 6, 2025
Mervin Mayo, the Richmond, Virginia, policeman whose gospel singing was caught on video in 2020 and subsequently went viral, sings “In This Place” with a gritty and instantly-compelling R&B-style vocal delivery.
“A Mighty Long Way” – Norman Hutchins
Trading truisms with a full-throated choir, Bishop Norman Hutchins reminds the listener in his boisterous new single that God has brought his people a mighty long way.
“The Savior Has Come” – Bryan Andrew Wilson & the Rebirth Brass Band
To update his 2007 Christmas song “The Savior Has Come,” gospel singer Bryan Andrew Wilson turned to New Orleans’s GRAMMY Award-winning Rebirth Brass Band to give it appropriate punch.
JGM Pick of the Week: December 10, 2024
“Rise” Jokia From the motion picture soundtrack Love Mountain Blacksmoke Music Worldwide (release date: May 17, 2024)
JGM Pick of the Week: December 4, 2024
“Call On Him” Fantastik Violinaires feat. Danny Walker Millennium Sound Records (release date: September 27, 2024)
“Glory” – Dasan Ahanu x Arvetra D. Jones
The artist offers some real talk on trusting in God’s love and protection, a lesson he learned from his grandmothers. No sugar coating on this testimony.
“Heaven” – Joshua Tomlinson
Tomlinson’s second single focuses on the conviction required, as well as the costs incurred, to achieve eternal life.
JGM Pick of the Week: November 25, 2024
Based on Amos 9:13-15, “Suddenly” is an auspicious debut single from Christian Anderson, an accomplished and affecting Greensboro, North Carolina, singer.
“Glad to be in the Service” – Isaac Lindsey
Although Mississippi quartet maven and radio host Isaac Lindsey goes solo on “Glad to be in the Service,” he stays not only “in the service” but solidly in the quartet mode.
