Buckle in! We have a lot to talk about on Artist News Day! Here is all we talked about on The Afternoon Drive today!

Brandon Lake continues to add more awards to his repertoire! The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) declared Brandon won 2 awards on November 10th.

Brandon was awarded Christian Music Songwriter of the Year and Christian Music Song of the Year, which was Praise, a song that rose to #1 for 31 weeks, co-written by Brandon Lake and Pat Barrett. With these 2 new additions, Brandon Lake now holds around fifteen ASCAP awards!

Further information can be found here!

We’re not the only ones starting to get into the Christmas spirit! Blessing Offor is joining the party with a new EP titled To All A Good Night!

This EP includes some new Christmas originals, like To All A Good Night and God With Us. He also is throwing in his special twists on *NSYNC’s Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Otis Redding’s Merry Christmas, Baby.

Here’s the full list of songs on Blessing’s EP:

1. To All A Good Night (Blessing Offor & Nathan Wallace)

2. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays

3. God With Us (Blessing Offor & Andrew Skib)

4. Merry Christmas, Baby

5. Wonderful Christmastime

6. Snow Globe (Blessing Offor, John Thomas Roach,

Steven Colyer)

7. Like A Child (Blessing Offor)

8. Little Drummer Boy

Further information can be found here!

Do you ever wonder how much work goes into the writing of a song? Well, for some artists, it’s a lot more than you think!

We’ve discovered Jon Reddick, an artist with hits like God Turn It Around, I Believe It, and his recent #1 hit No Fear, paints his own album covers! That’s right, the one you see above you, and every album you see from Jon, are hand painted by Jon himself!

After knowing this, you can’t unsee it! More info about Jon’s heart behind his paintings can be found here!

If you love Gospel music and football, you have a special treat awaiting for you! CeCe Winans will be performing the National Anthem at the Detroit Lion vs the Green Bay Packers game on Thursday, November 27th, which is the day of Thanksgiving!

This game will be the Detroit Lions’ 86th Annual Thanksgiving Day Classic! You can watch CeCe perform at this huge event on FOX at 1PM EST!

Did you know TobyMac had a conversation on Focus On The Family?

Toby talks in this conversation about losing his son, trusting that help is on the way, and holding on to hope in all circumstances.

You can watch and listen to the entire conversation on their YouTube channel:

Here were this week’s Song Poetry lyrics:

Cloud by day, fire by night
Guide my way, oh, move me right
Break the chains, set me free
Make a way like I ain’t never seen

This week’s lyrics were a stumper! See if you can figure out the artist and song title from these lyrics, and check back in next Tuesday for a chance to win two $5 gift cards to Watts Restaurant in Utica!

Tune in on Wednesday with Joe Rinehart and Gabriella Stanley for Who Knew Wednesday and a game of Who Am I?.

Thank you for listening!
– Xander and Ethan