“True Heart” Sees Jeff Hodges Embrace Vulnerability
Honesty these days are like rare gems that needs to be mined. For a lot of people just pretend and move along with it, making it difficult to find genuine people, genuine desire and genuine trust. Trust people today and tomorrow everything’s out in the open. This got ma man Jeff Hodges thinking, and now he is back with a new song called “True Heart,” and it is a total 180 from the big, shiny productions you usually hear on the radio.
If you remember his track “Coming Home”—which basically exploded online with millions of views, which was also covered here—you’d know he has a knack for making people feel things. And not just anything, but things that are real, genuine and out of reach. So this time around, he decided to strip everything back, and the result is pretty powerful.
A gospel kinda song that just preaches honesty whilst being honest. And that’s the whole vibe of the song. The song doesn’t ask you to be perfect or anything beyond, or pretend all’s good, when you know nothing is good. Speak your truth and let people deal with it. These days people don’t like the honest truth and thus lotta the time we sugarcoat a lot of it in lies. Which ain’t cool. The song just wants us to stop pretending a lot and be more like a “here I am, take it or leave it” kind of deal.
There is a great line in there where he tells someone to tear into his chest just to see his actual heart. Like dude, I’m telling you the gospel truth, yet you don’t wanna believe me then, rip ma guest wide open and see for yourself. But can we blame them? When honesty is a rare commodity these days. It sounds a bit intense, but in the context of the song, it’s just really sincere.
One of the coolest additions to this track is a gospel choir. They show up and add this massive, soulful layer that fits perfectly with Jeff’s voice. It starts out very quiet and humble, almost like he’s just whispering a secret, and then it opens up into this big emotional moment.
Jeff has a pretty wild background. He spent time in Nashville, founded a big studio in Charleston, and now he lives in the Turks and Caicos. You can tell he’s traveled because his music usually pulls from everywhere—rock, blues, and even Caribbean rhythms. But with “True Heart,” he puts all the genre-mashing aside to just focus on a simple, deep message about trust.
He’s currently getting ready to tour Mexico and parts of Europe in 2026, so he’s clearly in the middle of a serious creative streak. It’s good to see an artist who has millions of streams still willing to get vulnerable and keep things raw.
It’s like in those moments where you loved someone soo much and you just wanted them to believe you, and they still were sceptical about it. Well I’ve got this song “True Heart” for you, play it and it going to hit home. It’s honest, it’s a little bit raw, and it doesn’t hide behind a bunch of studio tricks.
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