Jo Dee Messina will release her new single “That’s God” January 19 with her first new CD in five years–”Unmistakable”–due out spring of 2010.

Jo Dee wrote “That’s God”–a song that she delivers in her signature soaring voice–with keyboardist Brent Rader after having an epiphany while taking her son on a walk at a majestic tour stop in Canada.

“That song really is my soul on a page,” says Jo Dee. “My son Noah was five months old at the time, and we were walking down this path and could see this snow-capped mountain that was enormous, but you felt like you could just reach out and touch it. I looked at my son and that mountain and said, ‘That’s God.’” That night on stage, she told the story to the audience and afterwards, Rader suggested they put that moment and feeling to song, which contains such lyrics as: “Have you ever heard a song that reached inside your soul/It says what you can’t say, let’s you know you’re not alone/You find the inspiration to keep on holding on/That’s God.”

Jo Dee has now made the whole song available for streaming at her website where she has also posted a candid and emotional interview about the writing of the song: Click here to head over to her website.

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