Maurette Brown Clark, Just Want to Praise You

In the 36^th edition of Music Lifts (2025), we’re uplifted by Maurette Brown Clark performing “Just Want to Praise You.”

Welcome to Music Lifts, featuring songs that encourage, inspire, and uplift the spirit; songs that exude fortitude, positivity, and resolve, even in the face of adversity.  Featured songs aren’t genre-specific; songs may or may not be faith-based. The goal is for these songs to make you feel better – be LIFTED to new heights!  So, for the 36^th edition of Music Lifts (2025), we highlight “Just Want to Praise You” as performed by Maurette Brown Clark.

“Just want to praise you / Forever and ever and ever / For all, You’ve done for me.”

👏 👏 🙌 Maurette Brown Clark (b. 1966) and an anointed choir waste no time giving thanks to God on “Just Want to Praise You”. The 14^th and penultimate track from her 2002 sophomore album, By His Grace, is the crème de la crème of her musical catalogue – a song to remember that never grows old.  “Blessings and glory, and honor,” Brown Clark and choir continue, “They all belong to You / Thank you Jesus for blessing me.” Can I get an amen?! How about a hallelujah?!

“Just Want to Praise You” features terrific, inspiring, and uplifting songwriting, as well as tuneful melodies.  This praise and worship song commences with distinct, rhythmic hits that set the tone. It features strong musical arrangement/production with a standard, contemporary gospel band: keys, organ, guitar, bass, and drums.  Brown Clark blesses us with her assertive, expressive, and jubilant lead vocals, while the choir provides superb background vocals, often carrying the melody. Brown Clark ad-libs and riffs like a champ, making us buy every word that she sells. Clearly, she believes in the power of Almighty God, testifying to His greatness at every opportunity.  “We’ve got a right to thank You, we got a right to praise You,” she sings, commandingly, and adds, “‘Cause when we think about everything that you’ve done for us, some of us raise our hands / Some of us clap our hands / Some of us leap, some of us leap over.” Ooh-wee! Thank ya 🙌 🙌 🙌! Maurette Brown Clark says it best on “Just Want to Praise You” when she sings, “Come on and help me lift God up high, he deserves it.” Truer words have never been spoken! Two decades and counting later, this song remains a powerful testament to faith!