JGM Pick of the Week: December 10, 2024
Jokia belts out “Rise” with a sonority that underlines the lyrical sentiments, while the arrangement communicates near Broadway-level drama.
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.
“I Am Your Music” – Quianna Crute feat. SouthsidePoet
The Atlanta-based but South Carolina-born worship leader Quianna Crute returns with another single, “I Am Your Music.”
JGM Pick of the Week – November 18, 2024
“There Wouldn’t Be a Me” Shonda English Gospel Diva Music (release date: January 23, 2024)
Aaron Cole – OMARI
Clocking in at less than ten minutes, OMARI is an affectionate love letter, wrapped in swaddling Christian pop and R&B, from a first-time father to his son.
JGM Pick of the Week: November 6, 2024
“Never Turn Back” Gregory G. Pearson feat. Angelena Starks Inner Court Music (release date: September 15, 2023)
JGM Pick of the Week – October 28, 2024
Melvin Crispell III – the BET Sunday Best Season 9 champion – gives James Fryson’s classic composition “God Is” an easygoing shuffle tempo.
“Holy Hands” – DOE
Singer-songwriter DOE has repainted the time-tested prayer room in shades of neo-soul and introspective acoustic sounds.
JGM Pick of the Week – October 21, 2024
Bri Babineaux’s best single in a while, “Confident” lives up to its title in lyric and overall musical swagger.
Regina Vandereijk – Love Called Her Home (EP)
Sometimes you come across a singer of significant sensitivity and sometimes you come across a skillful songwriter, but rarely do you come across someone who combines both. Regina Vandereijk has both.
JGM Pick of the Week – October 16, 2024
“Wonder In My Soul” Pastor Stephen E. Boyd From the SB Entertainment album Chronicles of My Country Church Vol. 1 (release date: April 12, 2024)
JGM Pick of the Week: September 30, 2024
“Clap My Way” Micah Lee Micah’s Music (release date: July 19, 2024)
“Holy Dance Groove-1” – JSCToken
Singer-songwriter-producer and Paris resident Jerry St. Charles, aka JSCToken, fuses spirituality with club music to produce “Holy Dance Groove-1.”
JGM Pick of the Week – September 23, 2024
The beloved Dottie Rambo composition is especially poignant in the wake of the plane crash that took the lives of three of the four members of The Nelons just weeks ago.