Jamie Grace “Ready to Fly” Album Review
“And ooh there's something
about the way Your sun shines on my face/ It's a love so true, I could never get enough
of You/This feeling can't be wrong, I'm about to get my worship o/ Take me
away, It's a beautiful day!”
In listening to Jamie Grace
singing these words, you can feel the zest of sunshine pinching at your face.
You can definitely feel a bounce in each step as you skip out of the
house. Frankly, this is the type of song
that can lift you up from any nocturnal depth to face the bright disposition a
brand new day brings bursting forth with endless opportunities of serving God
and others. “Ready to Fly” is the much anticipated follow-up to Grace’s debut “One
Song at a Time.” Just as her debut yielded 4 Top 40 CCM with “Hold Me
(Featuring TobyMac)” making all the way into top 5, “Ready to Fly” has already
charted in the same territory with “Beautiful Day.” And just like her debut, “Ready to Fly” is a
preppy sunny record filled with lots hopeful songs deeply grounded in who God
is as found in Scripture.
Talk about talents galore, Jamie Grace is the poster girl. She has dappled in acting and on the music
front, she has had been a rapper, singer, songwriter and a
multi-instrumentalist (being gifted on the piano, guitar, drums and
ukulele). Grace started out by recording
cover songs and posting them on youtube.
Shortly after her videos were picked up by TobyMac where she was later
offered a recording contract under Gotee Records. Kicking off the proceedings is the prelude of
“So Amazing” which functions as Grace’s statement of purpose of why she sings
and writes her songs. And giving her
affirmation for her glorious agenda of wanting to sing about our amazing God is
the sounds of some 80s sounding scratchy record songs. “Beautiful Day,” the
lead single, has already lighted up our airwaves with lots of the song’s perky
truisms and its peppy summer time grooves.
Being 22 years-old, Grace is in a place where she has the privilege
position of addressing teens without sounding like an uncool nagging auntie. Utilized
in most dating scenes as a courteous kiss off, “let’s just be friends” is often
viewed as abject rejection as one of the most demeaning kind. However, Grace on “Just a Friend” turns it
around by assuring her teenage fans that sometimes the person God has prepared
for us is better than the person who just turned us down. More Godly dating advice comes with the
country tingled “White Boots.” A paean to
chastity, “White Boots” cranks up the western doe-se-doe twang on what is an
irresistible country dance that you wish would never end. While
teenagers ready to leave home for college would find much to savor with the title
cut “Ready to Fly.” Stripped down with
just the gentle strums of the acoustic guitar, the folky “Ready to Fly” is a
big boost to the heart.
But not all is frothy and teen-centered, “Fighter” chronicles Grace’s
bout with Tourette’s syndrome in 2003.
And for anyone has allow the worries associated with a sickness rent into
the tired fabric of our lives, the various characters who have preserved in “Fighter”
are a great company to keep. “The
Waiting” tailors well as a follow-up where every stanza is teardrop territory
as Grace deals with the questions and the confusion that often come with
waiting on God. Here the lyrics are
freight with sheer heartfelt honesty: “All
of the questions, secret confessions/Lord You’ll make sense of it all/And I
know you’ll show up/So I’m letting go of these thoughts that are taking
control.” With an album not
governed by the weather of circumstances, no wonder Jamie Grace can fly into
the sun with such an irresistible charm.
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