03/03/2026
I am a North Carolina mountain girl who moved to Tennessee, and for years I spent countless evenings and weekend midnights driving home. Gravel back roads gave way to long stretches of asphalt. The moon hung low over the tree line. Mountains became valleys, valleys crossed over rivers, and my prayers rose there. I wrote “Midnight Moon” in those miles. It later became “Mighty Waters,” now published under the Royal Increase label.
My soul was deeply touched when this January Deep Roots writer David McGee, a veteran American music journalist and former Senior Editor at Rolling Stone, wrote about “Mighty Waters,” he reflected on a time when songs like “Let It Be” and “Bridge Over Troubled Water” carried what he called “dual purpose” messages rooted in spirituality, yet resonant in the wider culture. Of “Mighty Waters,” he wrote that it stands in that tradition, “equal parts theology exegesis and challenging existential discourse.” Describing it as “the album’s most majestic outpouring,” noting the “subtle, solemn organ, piano and understated percussion framing an epic vocal performance, so deeply committed and commanding it takes the breath away.” He wrote that it carries “the promise of reinvigorating rock ’n’ roll’s dormant gospel foundation,” and called it “truly healing music.”
While I may have wrote those words on a midnight road between mountains and home. My sister carried them with strength and conviction, giving them a voice that reached far beyond my drivers seat. I do not take her gift lightly. It is her voice that calls it into worship and her passion that allowed the world to hear the prayer I wrote.
If you haven’t listed yet, follow her, find her, and stream her album, because as David puts it her music really is “the future of gospel music”.
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