Brian Courtney Wilson – Just Love

Unyielding a power of faith, love & patience vocally, newcomer to Gospel Brian Courtney Wilson surprised me. And he will possibly surprise the rest of the Gospel Community with a knock-out, stellar project from Music World Entertainment in “Just Love” – An album most eagerly anticipated since last year. His music is so bright, his voice so prolific, it may resonate & stick with us throughout the entire year without having to be re-published. I was humbled immediately from track to track & was left with these words: This guy is TRULY blessed to sing. Make no mistake about it.

Track Listing:
~ Just Love
~ All I Need
~ No Other feat Stan Jones
~ Simply Redeemed
~ Already Here
~ I Need More
~ Almighty God
~ Believe
~ Waiting To Turn
~ Monday’s Pain (The Bridge
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And 10 tracks of songs may be too short for his gift. But enough to get everyone’s attention, including mine. Especially identifying his voice as it relates to another grateful singer in gospel music, Donnie McClurkin. They may even look a little alike. Look at the CD art cover. But Brian took his vocal gift unto a different platform.

“Just Love” broke it all loose for Brian. It is something to acknowledge all the while the R&B influenced production hypnotizes you. And the lyrics goes steady with it. Steadily flowed in a matter of fact; “All I Need” couldn’t be inspirational enough, nor block any thoughts that producer & songwriter Stan Jones participation should be identified. Stan helped to co-write & produce just about all of the tracks on “Just Love”, which led to “No Other”, where you’ll find him sharing the microphone with Brian Courtney.

Then take the remote control & press play to “Simply Redeemed” & listen in on the content & the songwriting skills of Brian C. Wilson. And “Almighty God” as well. The compassion & Brians’ life experience shared completely filled the compositions & went into great detail what many of us have gone through already & will possibly go through tomorrow in order to acknowledge the mighty power of the Holy One.

The slow praise pasturing & stillness of “Already Here” (see video above) seals the deal, completes the story & attracts the mind, foretelling in great essence what Brian C. is all about. A man who felt compelled to share his story, his love & humbled his life before the throne of Heaven. All by a magnificently, beautifully presence of his voice.

Brian can pick it up on the uplifting praise music meter with tracks like, “I Need More” & “No Other”, but the tender slow ballads of love & peace in the tracks mentioned above plus “Almighty God”, “Believe”, “Waiting To Turn” & “Monday’s Pain (The Bridge)” orchestrates Brian’s’ testimony in fulfillment.

I never covered a Gospel CD before. But I do listen to Gospel Music. And Brian made me, after the review, go back & take various re listens to what I had in my CD pockets & sleeves. A gentleman who took the chance to believe in himself, outdid & performed a masterpiece.

George Strand
The Urban Music Scene

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