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Lauren Talley releases cover of Terrian’s “Testimony”

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Lauren Talley has released a new single, a cover of Terrian’s “Testimony,” ahead of her next full project.

The song, produced by Jason Webb, follows the title track from Talley’s mid-August EP, “Walls (Part One),” which is currently climbing the charts, according to Horizon Records.

“I am a living, breathing, walking testimony,” Talley said. “Those words perfectly sum up how good the Lord has been in my life.”

Talley said she was saved at age 8 and felt called to ministry at age 12. She said her path has not gone exactly as she scripted it, but that God has remained faithful throughout.

The recording features acoustic instrumentation and harmony vocals from producer Jason Webb and singer Amber Eppinette Saunders, a longtime friend and colleague of Talley’s who has performed with 11th Hour and Amber Lynn.

The song includes the lyrics, “They said I wouldn’t make it, that I should give up, but they didn’t know that the God that I serve is more than enough.”

“Anybody who has given their life to Christ can say along with me: I am the living proof of what the Lord has done,” Talley said.

Lauren Talley brings raw worship and southern gospel grit to new EP, Walls (Part One)

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When you listen to a Lauren Talley song, you can usually hear it coming, where the polish drops away and something rawer takes over. It’s not a performance trick. It’s the whole point.

“When I step behind a microphone,” she says, “my most important job is to help the listener encounter the presence of God.” That sentence could double as a mission statement for her upcoming EP, Walls (Part One), out August 21 on Horizon Records and available now for pre-save.

Talley has spent years building a career inside Southern Gospel’s tight-knit world, but this project stretches past those borders. Working alongside producer Jason Webb, she folds inspirational, worship and contemporary Christian elements into the genre’s familiar bones, and the result feels less like a genre exercise and more like five different rooms in the same house of faith.

“In Walls (Part One),” she explains, “we can feel Him in the rhythm and soul of ‘Walls,’ and in the high energy of ‘So So Good.’ He shows up in the vulnerability of ‘Mercy’ and ‘Little Faith,’ and we can give Him all of our worship in the awe-inspiring lyrics of ‘Look At The Lamb.'”

That range is the project’s real achievement. “Little Faith” and “Mercy” open quiet, almost confessional, like Talley is singing to one person in a dim room. By the time “Walls” and “So So Good” kick in, the arrangements widen and her voice climbs with them, bold and unguarded. The closer, “Look at the Lamb,” a song she wrote herself, builds toward a full throated finish that feels earned rather than performed.

The lyrics shift moods just as freely, but two threads hold the whole EP together: power and grace. On the title track, she sings of a God who flattens every obstacle in His path: “He ain’t never met a wall / That He couldn’t tear down / Watch it crumbling to the ground.” On “Mercy,” the tone turns personal and grateful, a testimony of survival rather than triumph: “Now I’m alive to tell the story / How I’ve overcome / It’s His goodness and mercy / And the power of His blood.”
For Talley, the variety in sound is never the destination, just the vehicle. “Throughout every song I sing,” she says, “regardless of style, I want to take the listener on a ride through all the times we spend with the Lord, and point all the focus back to Him.”

That instinct has guided her since long before she had a record deal. Lauren Talley sang her first solo at age two, toddling onto a stage mid-concert to announce, in toddler logic, that she wanted to “thing.” She grew up to make good on that announcement as part of her family group, The Talleys, lending lead vocals to eleven number one hits and helping the group take home a 2015 Dove Award for “Hidden Heroes.”

Her solo catalogue runs seven albums deep, including the rare move of releasing two records the same day in 2019: Glorious God: Songs of Worship and Wonder and Loudest Praise: Hymns of Mercy, Love and Grace. Her 2017 record, The Gospel, hit number one on Billboard’s Southern Gospel chart, and she’s also written Songs in the Night, a devotional book paired with her 2010 album of the same name. She’s a regular presence on Gaither Homecoming videos and concerts, RFD-TV’s The Music City Show, and In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley, and in 2014 John Wesley University awarded her an honorary doctorate in Worship Arts.

Off the road, Talley works as a studio background vocalist and producer, and mentors emerging singers as a voice and performance coach. And when she’s not doing any of that, she’s cheering on the Tennessee Volunteers, sipping sweet tea, and making time to laugh with the people closest to her.

Walls (Part One) feels like the natural next step in that long arc: an artist who has spent her whole life pointing toward something bigger than herself, now doing it with a wider musical vocabulary than ever. Pre-save the EP ahead of its August 21 release.

Lauren Talley’s new single traces a path from a viral stadium moment to a song she hopes becomes a church anthem

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There is a particular kind of creative spark that catches people off guard, arriving not in a recording studio or at a songwriter’s desk but through a phone screen at some unremarkable hour. For Lauren Talley, that moment came about three years ago, while watching a video online.

“I saw a YouTube video that completely changed how I look at life and ministry,” she says. “The Passion Conference, held in Atlanta, showed a moment where the worship leaders stopped singing, fell on their faces before the Lord, and the entire stadium was overcome by the presence of God. That video taught me to pursue His presence above all else.”

It is the kind of moment that is difficult to quantify, the sort of spiritual disruption that either fades quickly or rearranges something fundamental in a person. For Talley, it clearly did the latter. She carried what she had witnessed to Nashville songwriter Tony Wood, a veteran collaborator with credits stretching across the Christian music landscape, and the two built something out of it together. The result is “Look at the Lamb,” her new single for Horizon Records, which arrives with no small amount of intention behind it.

“Out of inspiration from watching that,” Talley says, “I took ‘Look At The Lamb’ to my friend Tony Wood, and together wrote what I think will be an anthem for the church for many years to come.”

That is a confident claim, but Talley is not a newcomer making bold pronouncements from the margins. She has spent the better part of her life inside gospel music, having sung her first solo at age two when, as family lore has it, she wandered onto the stage during one of her family’s concerts and announced she wanted to “thing.” The malapropism stuck. So did the instinct.

As a member of The Talleys, the family group she grew up performing with, she earned a Dove Award in 2015 for “Hidden Heroes” and contributed lead vocals to eleven number one hits. Her solo catalogue spans seven albums, including a 2017 release, “The Gospel,” that reached the top of Billboard’s southern gospel chart, and a 2019 pairing in which she released two full-length projects simultaneously. She holds an honorary doctorate in Worship Arts from John Wesley University and is a recognisable face to the considerable audience that follows the Gaither Homecoming concert and video series.

All of which is to say that when Talley speaks about writing an anthem for the church, there is context behind the ambition.

“Look at the Lamb” opens quietly, with Talley’s voice given room to breathe before the arrangement expands into something more ceremonial. The lyric is straightforward in its theology, inviting the listener to fix their attention on Christ rather than their own circumstances:

Look at the lamb, Heaven’s King Here with us, light from his face His great heart full of love Eyes filled with grace He has come to seek and save Isn’t Jesus so amazing Isn’t Jesus glorious He’s Messiah He is mercy He’s the only worthy one

The Scripture reading embedded in the track is drawn from the same passage read aloud during the Atlanta gathering that first moved Talley, and it is narrated by Gloria Gaither, the songwriter and author whose voice carries its own particular weight in this tradition. Talley describes her as “the incomparable Gloria Gaither,” a characterisation that will resonate with anyone who knows the breadth of Gaither’s influence across decades of Christian music.

The song sits comfortably within the worship genre’s current interest in returning to a kind of reverent simplicity, favouring a direct encounter with the sacred over stylistic complexity. Whether it achieves the anthem status Talley envisions will depend, as it always does, on whether congregations make it their own.

“I pray all else disappears as you ‘Look At The Lamb,'” she says.

Beyond recording, Talley maintains a busy schedule of solo concerts, women’s conference appearances, and studio work as a background vocalist and producer for other artists. She also works as a voice and performance coach for emerging talent, a role that positions her as something of a bridge between generations in a genre that values lineage.

She is, by her own accounting, also a committed Tennessee Volunteers fan who drinks sweet tea and makes time for family. The details are offered without irony. In her world, they are not incidental to the person she is; they are part of what makes the music mean what it does.

Lauren Talley releases “Mercy” from Elevation Worship’s Grammy-winning album

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Lauren Talley has released a new single, “Mercy,” taken from Elevation Worship’s GRAMMY- and Dove Award-winning album Old Church Basement. The release follows last month’s “Walls,” her first new music for Horizon Records since A Lauren Talley Christmas in 2024.

The recording was produced by Jason Webb. Talley’s version keeps the keyboard-driven feel of the original but pulls back on its larger sound, holding instead to the quieter, confessional tone of the song’s opening. Even as Webb brings in a supporting vocal chorus, the arrangement keeps the listener close to the words, a lyric that speaks plainly about personal redemption and the grace of God.

Talley has said the song became personal to her long after she first heard it. She recalls being asked by a young woman at her church to play piano while the woman sang it. “I loved the song then,” Talley said, “but I didn’t live it until later.” Now, she says, the song belongs to her in a different way. “When you live a song, you have to sing it. It’s my story; it’s everyone’s story of redemption.”

Talley is no newcomer to Gospel music. Born into a musical family, she sang her first solo at age two, stepping onto the stage during a family concert. She went on to become a member of the family group The Talleys, contributing lead vocals to eleven number one hits. In 2015, The Talleys received a Dove Award for their song “Hidden Heroes.”

Her solo career has been equally productive. She has recorded seven solo albums, including a 2019 release of two albums at the same time — Glorious God: Songs of Worship and Wonder and Loudest Praise: Hymns of Mercy, Love and Grace. Her 2017 album The Gospel reached number one on Billboard’s Southern Gospel chart. She is also the author of Songs in the Night, a devotional book connected to her 2010 album of the same name. In 2014, she received an honorary doctorate in Worship Arts from John Wesley University.

Beyond her own recording work, Talley is well known to audiences through her appearances on Gaither Homecoming videos and concerts, RFD-TV’s The Music City Show, and In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley. She also performs at women’s conferences and events across the country, both as a singer and a speaker.

Lauren Talley releases new gospel song “Walls” after nearly four-year recording gap

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Arden, North Carolina (March 27, 2026) — Horizon Records artist Lauren Talley has released a new Gospel song titled “Walls.” The release marks her first new Gospel song in nearly four years. She released A Lauren Talley Christmas in 2024. The new recording was produced by Dove Award-winning producer Jason Webb.

The song “Walls” was written by Joseph Habedank, Tony Wood, and Michael Farren. Talley said she contacted Habedank after hearing the song. “Joseph is one of the top soloists in Southern Gospel, and in all of Christian music today, and he’s a friend of mine. So I texted him and said, ‘Hey, why didn’t you cut this song?’ And he said, ‘Are you wanting it?’ And when I said, ‘Yeah,’ he said, ‘Well, then, I probably should have!’”.

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“Walls” features strong rhythms and gritty guitars, with inspirational and CCM musical elements. The song carries a message about God’s power to transform a believer’s life. The lyrics include: “He ain’t never met a wall that He couldn’t tear down / Watch it crumbling to the ground / He ain’t never met a wall, that He couldn’t break through / Oh, just watch what he’s gonna do / Gonna do to your walls.”

Talley described the song in simple terms. “’Walls’ is just a groovy, fun song, full of bluesy attitude, but I sure have seen the truth of this song lived out in my life,” she said. “If you’re having a rough day, you can remind yourself that ‘He ain’t never met a wall that He couldn’t tear down.’ I think you’ll like it!”

Lauren Talley is known as a dynamic talent in Christian music and has influenced many young people to serve the Lord. She was born into a musical family and sang her first solo at age 2 when she went on stage during her family’s concert and said she wanted to “thing.” She later performed with her family group, The Talleys. She has received several awards, including a 2015 Dove Award for the song “Hidden Heroes.” Her lead vocals appear on eleven number one hits with the group.

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